TNEB publishes planned power-cut notices on a government portal that is slow, captcha-gated, organised by
internal jargon — circles, feeders, sections — and impossible to search by street or town. TN Outage turns
that into a live searchable map covering all 44 TNEB circles and
38 districts, plus an alert before the power goes out: free
browser push, or a ₹11/30-day WhatsApp pass for one section. It also reads TNEB's account on X for sudden
outages that never reach the official portal. Gemini solves the portal captcha, reads the notices and
geocodes them — 779 locations mapped to date. Bundled alongside: a
consumer-number directory lookup, an AI grievance-letter wizard in English and Tamil, and a bill
calculator.
Lawyers and litigants at the Madras High Court cannot tell when a case will actually be called. The court
publishes the live board, the day's cause list and the daily orders as three separate, awkward sources — a
manually refreshed web page, a 200-page PDF, and a clunky search form. Court Pulse scrapes and unifies all
three across the Chennai principal seat and the Madurai bench, then adds the one thing none of them offer:
a push notification when a watched case comes within five items of being called. Free, no login, and
explicitly an independent unofficial tool.
Madurai's TNSTC city buses have no official digital route lookup; locals ask around or guess. CityBus bridges this across four mediums: a fast Web route & fare finder (maduraione.in), a native Android app with offline routing, live GPS tracking and stop alarms (Play Store), a Wear OS smartwatch companion for wrist-based stop notifications, a decoupled Transit API, and an open Model Context Protocol (MCP) server (maduraione.in/developers) for AI agents in Claude and Antigravity. Built over a database of 966 routes and 3,389 stops with 84 rider contributions, reaching 2,094 monthly riders on 7,115 organic search clicks.
The Tamil Nadu government publishes hundreds of press releases through DIPR, mostly as scanned PDFs, in
Tamil or English, buried on a slow portal. TN SHORTS turns that firehose into a mobile-first, swipeable
feed: a scheduled job pulls new releases every two hours and has Gemini read each PDF — including scans
with no text layer — into parallel Tamil and English summaries. 642
releases across 82 departments so far, plus a daily "Wrapped"
five-slide digest of the day's most significant announcements. No login, no ads, read-only.
IRDAI, India's insurance regulator, publishes the full licensed surveyor list as raw CSV — useless if you
need a motor surveyor near you after a claim. Find A Surveyor is a Flutter Android app that makes it
searchable: typo-tolerant Algolia search, a "Near Me" geosearch map, one-tap call, WhatsApp or email, and
OTP-based profile claiming so surveyors can verify and enrich their own listing.
10,168 surveyors indexed,
73 verified,
1,757 installs and
1,716 registered users. Certificate of Appreciation from National
Insurance Company Limited.
Finding your civic jurisdiction in Tamil Nadu is genuinely hard — which ration shop am I assigned to,
which police station covers my street? NammaMap is a fast bilingual Tamil/English GIS portal with eleven
civic data layers, among them 34,908 public distribution (ration) shops,
11,289 health facilities,
2,811 TNEB offices and
2,381 police stations. 251 MB of pre-generated GIS JSON is served
straight from CDN and every spatial query runs client-side in a Web Worker, so a lookup costs nothing on
the backend.
The small administrative questions a city throws at you rarely have one good answer online: which e-Sevai
centre is nearest, who is my Booth Level Officer, where does the SETC bus actually leave from, which
notary is registered. Madurai Guide collects those lookups in one bilingual place, alongside a toolkit for
the Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls — an FAQ, a BLO and BLA finder, and e-EPIC
downloads — plus daily gold and silver rates, weather and Akashvani radio. It reaches
393 monthly users and is the most-found of these systems in search, at
354,095 impressions.