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Gang memory book

A memory book for your friend group, made from the gang's own photos

Every friend group has one person who says "we should make something of all this", and...

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The Chai Tapri Gang: Ten Years, One Tapri

For all six of them, from Fatima, who runs the group. Pune. A fictional gang.

  1. Six friends laughing around a small roadside tea stall at dusk, holding glasses of tea.
  2. Faded phone photo of six college students squeezed onto a bench beside a tea stall, younger and laughing.
  3. Five friends laughing as they push an old small hatchback while a sixth friend steers from the driver's seat.
  4. Six hands raising small glasses of tea together over a wooden bench in warm evening light.

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What is inside

  1. 1Cover
  2. 2How it all started
  3. 3Member profiles
  4. 4The Gang Awards
  5. 5Best nights
  6. 6One trip spread
  7. 7Notes from the gang
  8. 8Where we'll be in 10 years

Print it when you love it

  • Classic hardcover
    ₹1,799
  • Layflat
    ₹3,499
  • Mini softcover
    ₹699
  • Return-gift minis
    ₹199 each
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

Printed copies are paid, and everyone in the gang can get their own.

Page by page

  1. Cover

    Your gang's name over a group photo you choose, with three cover options such as The Chai Tapri Gang: Six Friends, One Group Chat.

  2. How it all started

    The origin story: where you met, the year and the first photo of you all together. Built from your answer and the oldest photos you pick, so it reads like the gang telling it.

  3. Member profiles

  4. The Gang Awards

    Always late, the planner, the foodie, the drama, the therapist, the one with the car. AI turns the titles you tap and the gang's answers into award pages. Roast captions stay friendly, and you can lock any page to gentle.

  5. Best nights

    Birthdays, Diwali parties, cricket on the terrace, the 2 am chai runs. We group what you pick by event and date, so the book moves through your years in order.

  6. One trip spread

    Your favourite trip gets one double page: the road, the food, the group photo everyone posted. If you want a whole book about one trip, our friends trip book is made for that.

  7. Notes from the gang

  8. Where we'll be in 10 years

The questions we ask
  1. What is your gang called? (type it, or tap "we don't have a name yet")
  2. How did the gang meet, and roughly when? (tap: school, college, hostel or PG, work, neighbours, coaching, online, other, plus the year)
  3. The one memory the gang will never stop bringing up?
  4. Your inside joke or code word? (optional; we use it, we never explain it)
  5. Where will the gang be in 10 years?
  6. Tone, language and years: emotional, funny roast or a mix; English, Hinglish or Hindi; all the years or just this year
Best for and styles
  • A friend group of 4 to 15 people whose photos are spread across everyone's phones
  • The one who runs the group and wants a gift for all of them, not just one friend
  • A December look back at the gang's year, or ten years since you all met
  • A big birthday in the gang, a 25th or a 30th, where everyone chips in
  • Friends from school, college, a PG, a coaching class or the same building, who still meet every month
  • Doodle sketchbook: hand-drawn arrows, stars and notebook margins over your photos
  • Kraft scrapbook: kraft paper, washi tape, instant-photo frames and handwritten-style captions
  • Y2K digicam: flash-photo frames, date stamps and pixel stickers
  • Filmy poster: a retro hand-painted cover and chapter openers with original titles made for your gang
  • Comic strip: panel layouts with speech bubbles built from your inside jokes
  • Clean minimal: clean white pages, one big photo per page and short captions

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.

Can everyone in the gang get a copy, and how do we split the cost?

Yes. Choose the number of copies when you order print, and every copy is the same book. When you tap split with the gang, we make a ready-to-paste message for your group with the per-head amount and your UPI ID. The money goes straight to you; Chalk Art never holds it.

We are cousins, not friends. Is this for us?

This book is made for friends. For a book about your family, including the cousins, have a look at the family year in review.

Will the roast captions go too far?

Roast captions tease habits and memories, never looks, caste, religion or who someone loves. Tap any caption to regenerate it, make it shorter or switch it to gentle, and you approve every page before anything is made.

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