The pulse of your city.
How busy a place is right now — the hospital queue at nine in the morning, the flyover that is already backed up, the government office on the day before a deadline. Reported by the people who are standing in it.
Nabza is the newest of the three and is in closed testing on Google Play with a small group of people in Bengaluru. The public listing link appears here the day it goes live.
Before you
leave the house.
Whether the queue has formed, whether the road is already backed up, whether it is worth going now or in an hour — reported by the people who are standing there.
“Popular times” is an average. You need today.
Every map app can tell you a place is usually busy on Saturday afternoons. None of them can tell you the queue is forty deep this morning because the doctor came in late, or that the road is shut because of a procession. That gap is the whole app.
Right now, or not at all
Every report carries a time. Old ones fade and then disappear, so you are never reading yesterday’s crowd as though it were today’s.
From people who are there
Nobody is guessing from a satellite. A report comes from someone standing in the queue, on the road, at the counter.
Places, not people
Nabza tracks how busy a place is. It is not a friend map, it does not broadcast where you are, and it does not follow you between reports.
Four tabs. Two of them you will live in.
Every screenshot below is the real app, not a mock-up.
Home — your city, at a glance
Opens on where you are with a one-line read on the city, and a distance you control. Drag the slider and everything underneath it changes.
- Trending now carries the place being reported most at this moment, and when it is usually best to go.
- Filter by hospital, government office, temple, transport and the rest.
- If nothing is close, Nabza says so and offers to widen the search rather than showing you an empty list.
- Places you saved stay one tap away.
Ping — the live map
The whole city as pins, each one carrying a colour. Green is clear, amber is moderate, red is crowded. Tap a pin for its status, or tap the map to inspect anywhere.
- Search any place in your city, or jump straight to where you are standing.
- Purple pins are places the community added, not us — anyone can suggest a place that is missing.
- The legend is always on screen, so nobody has to learn what the colours mean.
Scene — what people are posting right now
Somebody at the counter saying the token system went down at eleven. Somebody on the flyover saying take Hosur Road instead. Each post carries how far away it is, how long ago, and how long before it expires.
- Still there and Cleared let the next person confirm a report or retire it.
- Every post has a timer on it — the feed cannot silt up with yesterday.
- Invites sit alongside the posts, for spots that are opening up.
- Anything can be flagged, and posting is one tap from the same screen.
Me — what you have contributed, and what you keep
Nabza only works because people report. So what you have put in is counted and shown back to you: points, reports filed, and how many people you helped.
- Saved places — the hospital your family uses, the RTO you keep having to visit — synced across your devices.
- Your rank, and invites to spots near you.
- Profile, theme and sound settings in the same place.
Pulse
A small creature whose face is the reading. Calm and smiling when a place is clear; wide-eyed when it is filling up; tense and jittery when it is packed.
It does not illustrate the data — it is the data, so it can sit on every place card rather than only on a splash screen.
Want something like this for your own idea?
Nabza is a progressive web app inside an Android shell — one codebase, live data, and an interface that has to load in under three seconds on a phone in a hospital corridor. Built end to end by igotisekai.