intercity ride & empty-seat marketplace · Travel / Ride-sharing & transport

KhaliSeat

An intercity ride & empty-seat marketplace — drivers post their spare seats, travellers search by route, date and gender and book a ride.

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Problem

Huge numbers of people travel city to city every day, and just as many cars, vans and vehicles make those same trips with empty seats. Meanwhile other travellers struggle with unreliable, uncomfortable public transport. There was no simple, trusted place to match a driver's spare seats with the people who need them.

Solution

KhaliSeat lets anyone with a spare seat post a ride ad — where they're travelling from and to, how many seats are available, the price and the trip details — and lets travellers find it. Riders search by pick-up city or airport, drop-off, travel date and even preferred gender for comfort and safety, browse the matching ride ads, and contact the driver to book their seat. It's built with Django and server-rendered templates styled in Tailwind CSS on PostgreSQL — fast pages that are cheap to run and easy to maintain.

Key features

• Post a ride ad: from → to, seats available, price and trip details
• Search rides by pick-up, drop-off, date and gender
• Browse ride ads and contact the driver to book
• Driver and traveller accounts with a help centre
• Server-rendered Django + Tailwind pages, fast and low-cost

Technology

Results

• Empty seats on trips people already make get matched with travellers who need them
• A cheaper, more comfortable alternative to crowded public transport
• Gender-aware search adds a comfort-and-safety option for travellers