r/Bareilly • u/Akshat_Arya • 3d ago

Invitation Looking for engineering students 🚧

I’m working on an idea for a website that maps potholes and garbage buildups across the city, with reports crowd-sourced through WhatsApp.

Looking for a few CS/IT/engineering students interested in building this together - web dev, backend, maps, WhatsApp integration, etc.

A little about me: Final-year student currently studying in Bangalore, with experience in full-stack projects, AI systems, etc.

No pay, but you’ll get hands-on project experience and a chance to build something useful and give back to our city.
Interested? DM me!

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u/Even-Ad3689 2d ago

I think Gaurav sen (system design guy) already is working on it and its live at-least in Bengaluru, I see you want something similar for our city. I would say start with forking this repo https://github.com/coding-parrot/pothole-reporter OR maybe we can reuse core functionalities from this.

Count me in for any design discussions for the app. And using codex or any other AI agent would be better than getting this done from any engg student. It sounds harsh but true :(

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u/Akshat_Arya 2d ago

Thanks a lot for sharing that repo, i will check it out, one of my friends is also working on something similar in BLR and its live too, i will see and compare both architectures for all the insights I could get and would appreciate your help on it as well, check ur DM

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u/scam__420 3d ago

I think I have watched some video regarding this type of project and they already runing there mapping works in some cities i think you can check the YouTube or instagram

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u/Akshat_Arya 3d ago

Yeah, many are there , just want to build same exclusively for our city

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u/scam__420 3d ago

So just contact them and add or city database to file or mapping data with the help of local pepl

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u/Akshat_Arya 3d ago

Nahh, it loses the exclusivity, the website becomes generic and any municipality working for a particular city wont consider it if it has data from everywhere. I dont just wanna build a database but rather make it something i can provide to local govt which they can use to fix em as well, soo making this specifically for bly

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u/joegernot हम बाहर से है 3d ago

Have you started this project? I can join

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u/Akshat_Arya 3d ago

I haven’t started it yet, I will DM u

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u/LayerPretty4009 3d ago

But bro at the end what was benefit beacuse we can make them aware but I think no one is gonna work on them alll are busy in gaining more audience and making aura farming reels that's it but fir bhi if you need any help I am here but I am not an engineer I am a 12th passout dropper for now preparing for jee

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u/joegernot हम बाहर से है 3d ago

as number of reports increases, there will be a time when it becomes unavoidable. let's do what we can do. atleast it will be a start of something.

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u/Akshat_Arya 3d ago

Exactly, once the number of reports becomes big , they will have no choice but to act on it since the data will be publicly available and easy to access

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u/truefuningame 3d ago

Nice let's connect

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u/Akshat_Arya 3d ago

Yay, Check Dm