<aside> 💡 Gramhal builds products to try and bridge the information gap for rural households. This is an overview of the different technology-based products we have built, followed by a list of the software technologies used in them.

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You can read more about us here: www.gramhal.org

🍬Products

  1. Matar An audio-based application for Android that allows peer-based learning and information exchange along with gen-AI inputs. Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matar.app&pcampaignid=web_share Documentation: https://gramhal.gitbook.io/matar

  2. Bolbhav An android application for the crowdsourcing of mandi price data. This is Gramhal’s flagship product. Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.listag Documentation: https://gramhal.gitbook.io/bolbhav

  3. Bolbhav WhatsApp chatbot (Deprecated)

    A WhatsApp chatbot to access mandi prices, weather, and weather-based agro advisory. The chatbot was launched in four states and three languages. Documentation: https://gramhal.notion.site/WhatsApp-Chatbot-05d8e8a6fedf4cf29c15ee1ac5d3dc28?pvs=4

  4. Websites Used for SEO, Gramhal’s subdomains of bolbhav.com are optimized for search queries for mandi prices and crop prices. These websites use market rates from publicly available data sets. Links: https://prices.bolbhav.com/mandi/1 , https://prices.bolbhav.com/mandi/1

  5. Mandi prices web app: A web application that allows users to leave feedback for a chosen mandi and allows mandi staff to update prices and holidays for their mandis, as well as view the feedback from farmers. Links: https://mandi.bolbhav.com/mandi/222/feedback

  6. List App (Deprecated)

    This was an android application that allowed farmers to “list” products they are selling and for traders to select filters for crops they want to buy. Traders receive notifications when crops matching their filter criteria are “listed” and given the contact details of the farmers that listed.

  7. Moisture meter BLE-device that measures the capacitance of a sample of grain to detect its moisture, and then sends this reading to a mobile phone.

📲 Technologies

Tool SAAS/Framework
Bulk SMS and OTP msg91
WhatsApp messaging Gupshup
Database PostgreSQL
Cloud infrastructure AWS (EC2 for server hosting, Lambda functions)
VPN OpenVPN
Server-side runtime Python (Flask)
SQL toolkit SQL Alchemy
Website Framework Angular
Domain provider Godaddy, AWS Route53 as DNS service
App publishing Google Play Console
PaaS Dokku
Version control Github
Website deployment Netlify
Incident tracker Sentry
APIs REST
API analytics Moesiff
Certificate provider CloudFlare
API management Postman
Analytics Posthog
Mobile Frontend Kotlin for Matar, React Native for bolbhav
Payment gateway RazorPay, PhonePe