We started this because India's best garages are in alleys, on terraces, behind houses, under tarps— and yet, somehow, you've never been able to find them, hire them, or buy from them online. We thought that was strange. So we built this.
You can buy a fridge online. You can buy a flat online. You can find a person to marry online. But if your Royal Enfield's chain is slipping at midnight on a Friday, your only option is still your phone book.
That's the gap. India has 8.9 lakh independent workshops — small, fast, honest, mostly run by one person who knows every car on the street by sound. There are 31,000 creators on YouTube teaching everyone from teenagers to chacha-jis how to weld, paint, swap, modify, and rebuild. There are scrap yards, parts shops, gully fabricators, weekend warriors with garages full of spares they'll never use — and a whole generation of enthusiasts who'd buy them in a heartbeat if they only knew where to look.
Nobody connected them. We thought that was strange. So we built this.
Cars in India aren't disposable. People hold onto a Maruti 800 for 25 years. A Bullet stays in a family for three generations. A second-hand Thar gets restored, modded, parted out, restored again. The lifecycle is long, the love is real, and the work happens in tens of thousands of small workshops we collectively call “gully garages.”
The dealership is for the warranty period. After that, you find your guy. And once you find your guy, you stop trusting anyone else.
That trust is the asset. 0-100 exists to make that trust portable — so you can take your guy with you when you move cities, so a guy in Delhi can sell you a tank he pulled off a parted-out 350 without you wondering if it's real, so a creator in Chennai can teach a kid in Patna to rebuild a carburetor and earn a few rupees doing it.
1. Builders are the audience. Not “users.” Not “consumers.” We're building for people who name their cars, who keep a torque wrench in the boot, who'd rather spend a weekend doing it themselves. The dealership crowd is fine — they have Maruti True Value. We're for the people who think TrueValue is a starting point, not an ending.
2. Trust beats convenience. Faster delivery, cheaper parts, slicker app — none of it matters if you can't trust the seller. So we KYC every shop. We grade every used part. We escrow every payment until you say it's good. Then we worry about speed.
3. The money should flow to the people doing the work. 2.5% platform fee, full stop. Tips are 0%. Creators get ad revenue. Workshops get the full bill minus the platform fee. We don't take cuts from sellers, don't run dark-pattern subscriptions, don't sell your build data to OEMs.
4. India is the unit, not the asterisk. We're not a US app with INR pricing. UPI is the primary rail. Hinglish is a feature. WhatsApp is integrated because customers actually use it. License plate formats, GST invoicing, T+0 settlement — built in, not bolted on.
A customer books a service. The shop accepts. The customer pays via UPI into escrow. The shop fixes it. The customer marks it done. Money lands in the shop's account that evening — T+0, 2.5% fee, no card networks, no chargebacks.
If the shop needs a part, they order it from Marketplace. Another workshop or a parts shop ships it, also via UPI on delivery. The line item auto-attaches to the open job. The customer sees what was bought, the seller, the price. No mystery markup.
Creators earn three ways. Ad revenue on the videos they post. Tips, which we pass through 100%. And an affiliate cut when someone buys a part they linked to. Top creators earn ~₹40k/month. The very top earn more than ₹3L. All from the floor of their own garage.
We won't sell ads on top of search results. The first result is the cheapest matching one. Always.
We won't push you to upgrade to premium. There is no premium tier. There's just 0-100.
We won't sell your build data to OEMs. They've asked. We've said no. We'll keep saying no.
We won't let dealers list on Marketplace until we've figured out how to do it without ruining the experience for individual builders. (We're still figuring this out. Talk to us if you have ideas.)
This year: get to 5 lakh active builds tracked, 50,000 verified workshops, UPI-on-delivery in every metro and tier-2. Open up the creator program to anyone with 100 followers and a working camera. Ship a Hindi/Tamil/Marathi UI.
Next year: Group buys for organised mods. Service contracts that follow the vehicle across owners. A 3D-printed bracket library that any workshop can pull from. Direct access to recyclers for OEM-spec used parts. And the long-promised “find me a Polo GT in Bangalore” search.
If you've read this far, the odds are you're a builder. Email us at founders@autospace.in. Tell us what's broken about your weekend. We'll listen.
— 0-100 team
Bengaluru · Mumbai · Delhi · Chennai