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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

Python pipeline

nightly cron

Supabase

PostgreSQL

Next.js API

REST

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