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Our story

Rebuilding Local Discovery For The Modern World.

We started Wisbox with a simple frustration: the best parts of every city were invisible. Great little places had no way to be found, and people scrolled past real life on a screen. So we built a way to get everyone back outside — and reward them for it.

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Our story · since 2022

It started in 2022,
with one stubborn belief.

In 2022 we kept watching the same thing happen across Bhubaneswar: brilliant local sellers — the thela owner, the corner café, the single-chair salon — losing ground to apps that charged them everything and handed back almost nothing. Meanwhile people scrolled past real life on a screen. So we set out to fix both sides at once.

2022Founded in BhubaneswarBuilt street-first, for the city and beyond.

Our mission

Empowering every seller out there, digitally.

Give every local business the tools, reach and intelligence that until now only big chains could afford — and make the everyday act of going outside genuinely rewarding for the people around them.

The problems we couldn't ignore

Two sides of the same broken deal.

These aren't hypotheticals — they're what we heard, in person, from sellers and locals every single week.

For the sellers

What sellers were up against

  • Up to 30% gone to aggregators

    Commissions and fees ate the margin on every single order.

  • Invisible unless they paid

    Great little places simply couldn't be found next to chains that outspent them.

  • Renting their own customers

    No way to reach a regular directly — every repeat visit was bought again.

  • Flying blind, no data

    No idea who discovered them, who visited, or how to bring anyone back.

For the people

What people were stuck with

  • The best places stayed hidden

    Real neighbourhood gems were buried under whoever paid to rank highest.

  • The same five spots on repeat

    Discovery had quietly died — most people defaulted to a tiny, tired loop.

  • Paid-for recommendations

    "Top picks" meant top bidders, not the places locals actually loved.

  • Scrolling instead of living

    Hours lost to a feed, while a whole city sat one short walk away.

How we're solving it — at scale

One system that fixes both sides.

Not a marketplace that taxes sellers — an operating system for local commerce that grows the whole street at once.

A fair deal for sellers

Zero commission, a rich always-on storefront, and smart nearby ads that reach people at the right time and place — tools once reserved for chains, now for everyone.

0%commission, ever

Real discovery for people

A live, hyperlocal map ranked by what you'll genuinely love — not who paid most — that rewards you with XP, Flames and Wiskeys for actually going outside.

1.8M+discoveries a day

Built to scale a city

Geofenced advertising intelligence plus a real-world rewards loop that compounds — every new seller and explorer makes the whole network more valuable.

12cities & climbing

What we believe

Five values that keep us honest.

Our impact

Building The Future Of Local Commerce.

Bhubaneswar's neighbourhoods, lighting up one by one — from the buzz of KIIT Square to Infocity and the cafés of Patharagadia — as more people get outside and more local businesses get discovered.

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KIIT · 4,200 places
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The people behind Wisbox

A small team obsessed with cities.

Raja Sahoo

Raja Sahoo

Founder & CEO
Lokesh M

Lokesh M

Co-founder & CBO
Subham Sahu

Subham Sahu

Backend Architect
Lokesh Reddy

Lokesh Reddy

Frontend Architect
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