Next Berth
Find vacant seats before you board.
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Next Berth finds vacant berths from Indian Railways live reservation charts (Full, Partial, Combo) — a seat vacancy tracker other train apps do not offer. Also live train running status, coach seat layouts, and PNR. Free on Google Play. No ads. No signup. Not ticket booking.
PH · launched Sep 28, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: public transit tracking software · 42 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -57% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Travel & hospitality
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- Productivity
- Travel
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Could you build this?
Partial While a mobile client displaying Indian Railways data is straightforward, reliably scraping or accessing IRCTC/CRIS live reservation charts and seat status involves circumventing strict anti-bot protections, captchas, or acquiring official B2B API access.
What it would actually take: The architecture would consist of a Flutter or React Native mobile client backed by a serverless scraping or API aggregation cluster. The hardest part is consistently extracting real-time berth chart data from IRCTC's internal endpoints, which require handling dynamic sessions, IP rotation, and bot mitigation. A production system requires specialized web scraping infrastructure and reverse engineering of government railway APIs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 88 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #33 of 89 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 281 days after the earliest competitor.
- SeatLy · ph · 2026-10-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- NextTransit · ph · 2026-10-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Seats Frog · ph · 2026-11-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Railway Monitor · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- RailAI, Predict your journey · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- KTX Ticket Hunter · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Leave Now · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- split-ticket-finder · github · 2026-10-20 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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