Fix My City ’26

Build a platform where citizens report civic issues (potholes, garbage, drainage) with map pins and photos, and officials track and resolve them publicly. Python backend required. Ship a working prototype.

Prize · Full-time opportunity

Challenge closed

Evaluation only · Closed

What you can win

Full-time opportunity

Also included

Participation certificate
Get a verifiable certificate the moment you submit your work.

The brief

Indian cities lack a structured, transparent system for citizens to report and track local civic issues. Problems like potholes, garbage overflow, broken streetlights, and drainage failures go unreported or get buried in bureaucracy. There is no public accountability for resolution timelines. Citizens have no visibility into whether their complaints are being acted upon. Your job: Build the system that fixes this.

A full-stack civic issue tracking platform with two interfaces: Citizen Side ▸ Report issues with location (map pin), photo, and category ▸ Track status of their reported issues in real-time ▸ View a public live map of all civic issues in their area Official Side ▸ Dashboard to view, assign, prioritize, and resolve issues ▸ Update issue status with public-facing notes ▸ Analytics: issue volume, resolution time, category breakdown

Deliverables

GitHub repository with clean README (setup instructions, tech stack, architecture)
Demo video (max 5 min, Loom or YouTube unlisted) showing citizen flow, official flow, map, and lifecycle transitions
API documentation via Swagger, Postman collection, or detailed README section
Thought Process Doc (max 500 words, PDF or Markdown in repo) covering architecture decisions, tradeoffs, scalability thinking, and AI tools disclosure

Evaluation criteria

Issue Lifecycle & Logic
Map & Geospatial Implementation
Auth & Security
Code Quality & Scalability