Why Dukanoo exists

Street vendors are a big part of how India eats, yet they are hard to find online. In August 2023 the government told the Lok Sabha that it had identified 53,76,074 street vendors, and the National Association of Street Vendors of India estimates 50 to 60 lakh. These counts cover all kinds of vending, not only food.

NASVI’s plain definition is that “anyone who doesn’t have a permanent shop is considered a street vendor”. That is what makes stalls hard to find: many have no fixed address or website, and their hours can change from day to day. We built Dukanoo for the question people ask before stepping out: is that stall open, and does it still have what I want? That is our tagline too: Know before you go.

What Dukanoo does

How Dukanoo makes money

Customers use Dukanoo for free. Stall owners start on a free trial and then pay for a monthly plan. A stall can also pay for a more visible place, and those stalls are always labelled as promoted. We take no commission on food sales, and we do not sell personal data.

Where we are today

Dukanoo is still early. We are starting with stalls in Prayagraj, so you will not find every stall yet, and other cities may show few stalls or none. Our team works from Rajrooppur, visits every stall, puts up its QR poster and takes photos for a basic hygiene record. The web app works in modern browsers on phones and computers. The Android app is in testing on Google Play and can be downloaded from this website until it is public.

How we write these pages

Our guides name their sources and show the date they were last updated. Stalls in our screenshots are samples, and we label them. Where we compare Dukanoo with another service, we say that Dukanoo is ours. If you find a mistake, please tell us and we will correct it.

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