Varun's Off to Melbourne: Hyderabad Will Wait
For Varun, from Sameer, Keerthana and Pranav, Hyderabad. A fictional friendship.
Friend moving abroad book
A farewell gift for your best friend moving abroad, made into a book
Kabir flies out on Sunday.
What is inside
- 1Cover
- 2Where it started
- 3Our city
- 4So them
- 5What we will miss
- 6When you are back
- 7Open-when pages (optional)
- 8The last page
Print it when you love it
- Mini softcover₹699
- Card book₹449
- Classic hardcover₹1,799
Price notes
- Launch prices including GST. Final price is confirmed before you pay.
- Extra pages: ₹99 per 4 pages on 8x8 books, ₹149 per 4 pages on larger books.
- Second copy of the same book: 30% off. Five or more copies: 35% off.
About this book
You tell us where they are going, how you met and the one memory you never stop bringing up. Pick a template, choose a tone (emotional, a funny roast or a mix) and a language (English, Hinglish or Hindi). AI writes the captions in your words and shows you a preview to confirm. No design work, no editor.
Printed copies are paid, in sizes small enough to pack.
Page by page
Cover
A photo of the two of you, or the whole gang, with their name and where they are headed. You choose from three cover options, such as Kabir's Going to Toronto: Don't Forget Delhi.
Where it started
Our city
So them
Their dialogue, their food order, the habit only they have, plus your inside joke or code word. We use it in the captions and never explain it, so it stays yours.
What we will miss
When you are back
Open-when pages (optional)
The last page
The questions we ask
- What's their name, and what do you actually call them? (e.g. Kabir / 'Kabbu')
- Where are they going, and when do they leave? (city or country, plus month)
- How did you meet, and roughly when? (tap: school, college, hostel or PG, work, neighbours, coaching, online, other, plus the year)
- The one memory you'll never stop bringing up?
- What will you miss most about having them around?
- What's the first thing you'll do together when they're back?
- Their 'so them' thing or your inside joke? (optional; we use it, we never explain it)
- Something you never say out loud?
Best for and styles
- A best friend leaving for a master's, a new job or a move abroad
- A gang sending off one of their own, with photos and notes from everyone
- A friend moving to a new city in India, not only abroad
- Friends whose photos are scattered across many phones and chats
- A gift light enough to go into a suitcase that is already over the limit
- Instant-photo minimal: clean white pages, one big photo per page and short captions
- Kraft scrapbook: kraft paper, washi tape, instant-photo frames and handwritten-style captions
- Doodle sketchbook: hand-drawn arrows, doodles and notebook margins over your photos
- Y2K digicam: flash-photo frames, date stamps and small pixel stickers
- Comic strip: panel layouts with speech bubbles built from your inside jokes
Questions parents ask
Is it really free?
Making the book and saving the PDF is free. Printing is optional and paid, and we confirm the price and delivery date by email before you pay.
What happens to my photos?
Photo books are laid out on your device and the photos never leave it. For illustrated books, up to three photos are used once to draw the character and then deleted. See privacy.
They leave in a few days. Is that enough time?
The digital book is ready as soon as you confirm the preview, and answering the questions takes a few minutes. Printing and delivery take longer, so order the print as early as you can and check the delivery date shown at checkout before you pay. If the print cannot arrive in time, give them the digital link on the last evening and the printed copy can follow.
They are moving to Bengaluru, not abroad. Does this still work?
Yes. The book works for any best friend moving away, to another country or another city. The cover and captions use the place you type, and the open-when pages can be about a new job or a new flat instead of a new country.
Will the captions sound like us?
The captions are built from your answers: their nickname, the memory you keep bringing up, your inside joke and what you will miss. Choose emotional, a funny roast or a mix, in English, Hinglish or Hindi. If a page feels off, tap to regenerate it, make it shorter or switch it to Hindi. Roast captions stay away from looks, caste, religion and sexuality.