<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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
Tool | SAAS/Framework |
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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 |