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BLR Neighborhood Explorer

One place to decide where to live in Bengaluru — before signing a lease

Who

People relocating to Bengaluru — new joiners, transferees, anyone choosing a neighborhood in a city they don't know yet.

Why

Choosing where to live in an unfamiliar city is a high-stakes decision made with terrible information. Renters juggle five browser tabs of outdated listings, paywalled livability reports, and word-of-mouth — then commit to a 12-month lease anyway. The job to be done: compare neighborhoods on what actually matters (rent, commute, amenities, weather) in one trustworthy view.

What

A map-first comparison engine that scores 100+ Bengaluru neighborhoods on rent, livability, amenities, and commute — refreshed nightly from live sources, free and open.

  • —Interactive map of 100+ scored neighborhoods — click any area to drill into rentals, amenities, and scores
  • —Transparent livability scoring across schools, hospitals, supermarkets, and commute zones — you can see why an area scores what it does
  • —Live rental listings, weather, and commute estimates aggregated from 4+ sources
  • —Nightly automated data refresh — nothing on the map is stale

Impact

100+neighborhoods scored
4+live data sources
Nightlydata refresh
Livedeployed on Vercel

→Peaked at around 400 visitors in its launch week, and friends used it to shortlist neighborhoods when relocating to Bengaluru.

How — architecture

NoBroker
OpenWeatherMap
Overpass (OSM)

live sources

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Python pipeline

nightly cron

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Supabase

PostgreSQL

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Next.js API

REST

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MapLibre

frontend

Built with

FrontendNext.js, React, MapLibre GL, Tailwind CSS
BackendNode.js API routes, Supabase PostgreSQL
DataPython scraping, Overpass API, OpenWeatherMap
OpsGitHub Actions (nightly refresh), Vercel