About Adukoo

The problem. Small shops, individuals, service providers, job seekers, real-estate agents, corner-store owners and even mid-size brands are largely invisible online. Google Ads and Meta Ads are priced for enterprises. Amazon and OLX crowd every seller into the same faceless list. Facebook Marketplace limits you to your city. Nobody hands the small player their own storefront, their own brand, and their own audience — free, worldwide.

What Adukoo is. Adukoo is a worldwide ads-posting and brand-building platform live in 180+ countries. In under a minute anyone — a farmer in Chittoor, a fashion label in Milan, a software startup in Lagos, a homemaker in Manila, a global brand in New York — can post an Ad, open a branded Digital Store, hire, post an Affiliate deal, or run a sponsored campaign. One platform, one identity, one yellow tick — for every seller, hirer, buyer or brand on Earth.

Whom we help.

• Individuals selling a used phone, a car, a piece of furniture — free listing, no per-post fee, no seller cut.
• Local shops & corner outlets — free branded Digital Store, WhatsApp lead capture, footfall stays with the shopkeeper.
• Small & medium businesses — build a brand with reviews, ratings, verified badges, sponsored deals and pickup-from-shop distribution.
• Global brands & MNCs — reach Tier-3 / Tier-4 towns worldwide with localised, regional-language campaigns Google can't deliver.
• Job seekers & recruiters — separate Jobs and Job Profiles categories; direct chat; open-for-work signal.
• Affiliate marketers & influencers — Sponsored ribbon (FTC / ASCI compliant), 100% of your commission, zero Adukoo cut.
• Real-estate agents, service providers & matchmakers — dedicated categories with the right form fields.
• Buyers — no login wall to browse, direct-chat with the seller, ratings on every listing, curated Funboard for discovery.

Why we exist. To make ads-posting and brand-building genuinely free and fair for everyone — not just the players who can afford Google Ads. We pay for the platform via a single tasteful sponsored slot per page (clearly labeled Sponsored) and optional Verified-Business subscriptions for sellers who want deeper analytics. Nothing else. Sellers keep 100% of every sale.

Classifieds platforms have shaped how the world buys and sells for 25 years. But almost all of them now charge sellers per listing, hide top placement behind paywalls, mix sponsored content with organic results without disclosure, and treat users as inventory to be sold to advertisers. We think the next generation of marketplaces can be different.

Adukoo's mission is to keep listing genuinely free — no per-listing fee, no "boost or stay hidden" tax, no surprise paywall when you want to message a seller. We pay for the platform with a single tasteful display-ad slot per page (clearly labeled Sponsored) and optional Verified-Business subscriptions for sellers who want 360° analytics, multi-store dashboards, and priority dispute resolution. That's it. Sellers keep 100% of every sale.

Adukoo is no longer a single classifieds product — it's a growing ecosystem of connected surfaces, all built for the same audience of everyday sellers, shoppers, hirers, creators and readers. Everything below is live today at adukoo.com and inside the Adukoo Android app on Google Play.

• Adukoo Marketplace — free classifieds in 180+ countries. Post an ad in under a minute; buyers chat directly with you in real time.
• Digital Stores — a branded shop at adukoo.com/store/yourname with inventory dashboard, reviews and analytics. Free for the first store.
• Adukoo Gang — the community feed at /funboard/gang. Post thoughts, links or photos, comment, react and DM other members. Every month the top poster is auto-crowned Gang Leader.
• Latest Buzz — the curated read-only news feed at /funboard/buzz. Gadgets, health, politics, markets, movies, memes and OTT trends pulled from 300+ trusted sources across US / UK / India / Telugu / Tamil / Hindi / Kannada / Malayalam — auto-localised to the viewer's country and language.
• Adukoo Chat — real-time WebSocket messaging that powers buyer-seller conversations, job applications AND direct DMs from any Adukoo Gang post.
• Adukoo Ads Platform — the in-house ad server used to fund the free marketplace. Every ad the admin uploads is served in-stream on the Gang and Buzz feeds, on category pages, listing sidebars, creator profiles and dashboards — with per-ad impressions / clicks / CTR + downloadable CSV reports for advertisers.

The ecosystem shares one identity, one wallet, one verification badge, one inbox and one analytics dashboard — so a seller who opens a Digital Store, hires on Jobs, engages on Adukoo Gang and buys advertising all does it as the same Adukoo user, without ever bouncing between three different apps.

Adukoo started in 2024 as a side project. The founder, a software engineer who had grown frustrated with the state of online classifieds in India, wanted a platform that didn't charge sellers ₹49 to "boost" a listing for 7 days. By early 2025 the prototype was running for a small private community of friends and shopkeepers in Hyderabad. By mid-2025 it had expanded organically across 20 Indian cities. By late 2025 the Adukoo Tech company was incorporated and the platform opened to a global audience.

Today Adukoo serves verified sellers and curious buyers in 180+ countries. The engineering team is small and lean — we ship multiple times a week and pay obsessive attention to what real users tell us. If you found a bug, want a feature, or just have feedback, write to us — we read every email and we reply.