01 / REPORT
Spot, photograph, submit
The service was designed so people could report a pothole with a photo and location without being forced through a complicated account or password flow.
2024 — 2025
Indian Potholes has closed its doors.
This project was built around a straightforward civic idea: make damaged roads visible, document them with citizen reports, and connect those reports with the public officials responsible for the area.
Every submitted road report represented a citizen hoping that a visible problem could become an acknowledged problem—and eventually a repaired one.
The original idea
A public record for road problems, built for ordinary citizens.
02 / MAP
Turn complaints into visible evidence
Reports were intended to appear on a public map, giving communities a shared picture of where road problems were accumulating.
03 / ACCOUNTABILITY
Connect places to responsibility
The project mapped reports to constituencies and sought to identify representatives and civic officials connected with the affected roads.
Why it ended
The technology could collect reports. It could not make institutions respond.
Built in public
Volunteers and contributors put time into a platform aimed at making everyday road failures easier to document and harder to ignore.
Outreach
The team contacted public bodies and pursued official channels, looking for meaningful engagement with the reports and the underlying data.
No durable loop
Without a reliable response from responsible authorities, collecting more citizen reports risked becoming a one-way archive rather than a path toward repair.
Closure
The project chose to stop rather than give citizens the impression that each new submission was reaching a functioning official response process.
The civic instinct behind the project still matters.
People who photographed damaged roads, marked locations, shared reports and encouraged others were trying to improve the places where they live. This restored page preserves the public story of that effort.
The indexed closure page states that the project code was left open source. No repository
URL has been inserted here because one could not be reliably verified during reconstruction.