Tinder for footpaths: Teen creates app that lets Bengaluru swipe on damaged footpaths
Strolling via elements of Bengaluru can typically imply stepping round damaged pavements, lacking tiles, parked autos, or stretches with no footpath in any respect. For a lot of residents, particularly kids and aged folks, meaning being pushed onto crowded roads merely to get from one place to a different.
Now, a 14-year-old pupil from town has developed a cellular utility aimed toward serving to residents report such issues on to civic authorities in a extra organised method.
The app, referred to as “RASTHE”, permits customers to add images of broken or unusable footpaths, price them, and vote on the worst stretches throughout town. {The teenager} behind the challenge, Surya Uthkarsha, has described it as a “Tinder for Footpaths” due to its swipe-based interface.
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How the app works
In a video shared on X, Surya defined the thought behind the platform and the way customers can work together with it.
“I’ve constructed a cellular app for Bengaluru customers to report footpaths. Say you do not like a footpath, or it is damaged or unusable — add a picture whereas reporting it, and it exhibits up on the crowdsourced grid and is mapped to your ward, so BBMP can simply repair it.”
The app additionally features a public voting characteristic, permitting customers to appoint each good and dangerous footpaths.
“You may also nominate a footpath that’s dangerous or good, and other people can vote on it so you possibly can lastly perceive which is the most effective footpath in Bengaluru,” he stated.
In line with Surya, the app was created utilizing the platform “10x Apps” in round half-hour and is now able to be submitted to app shops.
Flip each citizen right into a sensor
The challenge gained consideration on-line after Surya posted about it on social media with the caption: “I mounted Bengaluru and site visitors in half-hour. Meet RASTHE: Tinder for Footpaths.”
He additional described the app as: “A crowdsourced platform the place you possibly can report damaged or lacking footpaths on to BBMP. Swipe footpaths like Tinder, upvote the worst spots that want pressing fixing. Flip each citizen right into a sensor for town.”
The initiative has since drawn widespread reactions on-line, with a number of customers praising the thought and calling it a sensible use of know-how to deal with on a regular basis civic points within the metropolis.
