Every week, thousands of international students and foreign residents in Turkey quietly coordinate a small logistics miracle. They find strangers on WhatsApp groups, negotiate prices in broken threads, hand over packages of food and medicine and documents to people they barely know, and trust that it will all work out. Usually, it does. Sometimes, it doesn't. Always, it's harder than it needs to be.
Turkey is home to hundreds of thousands of foreign students and workers — from West Africa, Central Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and beyond. Many of them maintain deep ties to their home countries: sending money back, receiving goods from family, shipping items that aren't available where they now live. The need to move physical goods across borders is not occasional. It is constant.
The solution most people use is a WhatsApp group. Someone flying announces their available baggage space. Someone who needs to send something responds. They negotiate in private messages, arrange a handover, and hope for the best. The system works — imperfectly — because communities are built on trust. But trust alone cannot replace infrastructure.
Posts get buried. Prices are opaque. There is no way to know if a traveler is who they say they are, or whether they've made deliveries before. Goods worth hundreds of euros change hands with no record, no confirmation, and no recourse. When something goes wrong, there is no platform to turn to — only a group chat, and the hope that social pressure is enough.
"The community has already done the hardest part: establishing trust, normalizing the behavior, and generating consistent demand. What it lacks is a tool worthy of the market it's already created."
This is the problem Yablink was built to solve. Not by replacing the community — but by giving it better infrastructure. A searchable feed instead of a buried thread. A verifiable profile instead of a first name and a phone number. A completion record instead of a handshake in a parking lot.
If you've ever said 'does anyone know someone flying to...' — this is for you.
Living far from home, you miss food your family makes, clothes they send, documents they need signed. You've used WhatsApp groups to find travelers. Now there's a better way to find them — and to be found when you're the one flying back.
You fly your corridor often — for work, family, or business. You've carried things for people before, informally. Yablink lets you make that official: post your upcoming trips, let senders find you, set your own rate, and build a track record that makes you the obvious choice.
You coordinate deliveries for others — aggregating packages, organizing handovers, running an informal freight service out of sheer community spirit. Yablink is built to support what you already do, with better tools and less chaos.
We started with Turkey. The network is growing.
Post a request anyway. If even one traveler on your route is on Yablink, they'll find you.
| Feature | WhatsApp Group | Yablink |
|---|---|---|
| Search by route and date | ❌ | ✅ |
| Price visibility | ❌Private DMs | ✅Listed upfront |
| Traveler track record | ❌ | ✅Completion history |
| In-app messaging | ❌Exposed phone numbers | ✅No number sharing |
| Delivery confirmation | ❌ | ✅Mark as completed |
| Available 24/7 without posting | ❌ | ✅Listings persist |
| Platform support | ❌ | ✅ |
Yablink is not a freight company. It is a tool that serves communities that have been coordinating informal logistics for years. We work with the grain of how people already trust each other — we don't replace that trust with algorithms.
The packages that move through Yablink are not commodities. They are often the most meaningful things a person owns: food from home, a parent's medicine, a handmade gift. We build with that weight in mind.
Every structural problem in the informal system — buried posts, hidden prices, unverifiable identities — exists because the current tools hide information. Yablink makes information visible. That's the whole product.
Browsing and posting are free. Messaging is free. We will only ever introduce optional paid features for people who want more visibility or features — never as a gate in front of the core function.
Share Yablink with your community. Every new user makes the network more useful for everyone.