How Catch My Wave works

The loop

Drop a Beat. See who’s dropping Beats around you. Send a Wave. Chat when they catch it.

That is the whole product. There is no swipe deck of people two cities away. There is no public map of your body. You show up in a place, you share something from it, and people who share that hour can say hi.

ispati builds Catch My Wave from Jodhpur. Nitin Kumar Khatri started it because the usual apps showed him people who would never overlap his week. The interesting part of a city is the table next to you.

What a Beat is

A Beat is a photo or a short clip from the place you’re in. Location is stored so people nearby can see it. Other people do not see your pin, the exact time, or a movement trail.

Beats stay in the feed about 12 hours. New today is the last about 3 hours. Earlier today is quieter. After 12 hours they leave the feed and stay on your profile.

You do not attach a venue name as a public sticker. The Beat is the media plus a private point used to rank who is actually around. Other people see the photo or clip and that it is nearby and recent — “recently,” not a countdown. Exact metres stay off the card.

If you have not dropped a Beat, the people feed has nothing current to hang on. The app is allowed to ask you to share one. That is not a trick. Without a place, “nearby” is a guess.

What a Wave is

A Wave is a hello with an intent — coffee, chat, hang, campus. Catching is free. Chat opens only if they catch it.

Intents are ordinary: coffee, chat, hang, campus. You can send a Wave from a person’s profile or from a Beat in the feed. They see it. They catch it or they do not. There is no public score of how many people you waved at.

A Wave is not a match and not a date. If they catch it, you can talk. If they do not, the day continues. That is the point of catching being free — interest is allowed to be light.

Crossed paths

Crossed paths means two Beats probably shared the same real-world context: about 300 metres, posted within about 30 minutes, in the last 24 hours. That is overlap, not proof you stood together.

Crossed paths is a Beat-derived label. It is not live GPS, not a heatmap of your day, and not a claim that you spent ten minutes together. Two Beats in the same patch of city in the same half hour, sometime in the last day, is enough to say you probably shared a context. Probably.

The people feed is crossed paths. There is no “around you” live list. If you want to see who is here, look at Beats. If you want to say hi, send a Wave.

Privacy, age, and what we do not do

We do not follow you while the app is open. Your pin is only taken when you share a Beat. You must be 18.

Pins, exact timestamps, and movement trails are not shown to other people. Legal pages keep the metres and the hours so you can read them in one place: about 1 km for retrieving Beats, about 12 hours on the feed, about 3 hours treated as fresh, about 300 metres and 30 minutes and 24 hours for crossed paths.

The app is not a dating marketplace, not a matrimony bureau, and not an AI coach. ChatGPT can help you plan a sentence. It cannot sit at the table. Catch My Wave can only show people who already share the place.

How to use it this afternoon

Go somewhere you actually are — café, campus, society park, office canteen. Take a photo or a short clip of the place, not a posed headshot unless that is what you want. Share the Beat. Look at New today, then Earlier today. Wave at someone whose Beat you like. If they catch it, talk about the place first.

If you want people who are actually around you — this café, this campus, this place — open Catch My Wave, share a Beat, and look.