“The intent to make the roads safer in Bengaluru”: Local techie discovers pothole mapping website

A civic-tech initiative aimed at helping Bengaluru residents report the city’s crumbling road infrastructure has gone viral. A local tech professional, Shushant Goel, discovered the website and posted a screenshot of it – blr-potholes.pages.dev – that allows users to report potholes across the city.

Captioning the post, Goel wrote: “Someone created https://blr-potholes.pages.dev with the intent to make the roads safer in Bengaluru. I hope they are not persecuted by the machinery instead. Also this should be called a crater, not a pothole!”

Someone created https://t.co/gG9Il079ke with the intent to make the roads safer in Bengaluru. I hope they are not persecuted by the machinery instead.

Also this should be called a crater, not a pothole! pic.twitter.com/iFuNe5xmPL

— Shantanu Goel (@shantanugoel) June 24, 2025

About the civic-tech platform

The platform in question, titled Open Urban Eyesore, is an open-source tool developed to help communities document and map urban infrastructure issues such as potholes.

It allows transparency and collaboration between citizens and authorities by focusing on potholes and extending to other civic issues. It provides tools and patterns for:

•  Uploading geo‑tagged images

•  Community review and moderation

• Tagging and assessing severity

• Maintaining a public, open record

Netizens react

The post went viral, getting over 55.6K views and 2k likes, with netizens lauding the initiative.

Reacting to the post, one user commented, “Whoever created this earned my respect. These are the things we should be expecting out of Bengaluru and its strong dev presence.”

Another user wrote, “I would love for a weekly report to be sent to the local municipal offices.”

A third user said, “I hope the respective officials see this and repair it, later the person who made the app, mark them as fixed, that’s how it should be.”

Another individual shared the daily problem he faces on his commute: “I commute daily from this road. It is Thubrahalli Vibgyor road. This road is in same condition over a year, only thing they do is put concrete waste. Conditions of this road is pathetic and whenever I go from here in my bike, pray to god to take care of me.”

However, the developers behind the initiative clarified that they are not affiliated with any government agency, but aim to uplift civic accountability and transparency.

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