Surabhi Krishna

Posted on May 19

How We Built India’s Free Event Ticketing Platform with AI, UPI, and QR Infrastructure

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Most Indian event organizers lose huge amounts of money to ticketing commissions.

Platforms often charge:

We wanted to solve this.

So we built Vihaya Events:
https://events.vihaya.app

A completely free event ticketing and event management platform designed specifically for Indian organizers.

Core Engineering Challenges

Building an event platform for India meant solving:

We integrated Razorpay for:

The challenge was optimizing checkout for Indian mobile networks while keeping registration friction extremely low.

Every ticket generates:

This allows check-in systems to continue working even during poor venue connectivity.

One of our most interesting systems is the AI form builder:
https://events.vihaya.app/features/ai-form-builder

Organizers describe an event in plain English and the system auto-generates:

This system generates complete event landing pages automatically.

Large college fests and hackathons required:

We designed the architecture to support everything from 50-person workshops to large multi-day festivals.

India’s event ecosystem needs affordable infrastructure.

We’re trying to build scalable tooling that gives organizers modern event technology without platform commissions.