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Not much to see here. Crowd sourced, vibe coded app. Not sure what "verified" means because the only verification they did was require a checkbox that "I confirm this is a genuine experience"

I'm a lawyer. I deal with government officials on behalf of clients.

I will give a different context of it.

Many people "do actually" commit tax fraud. It's just real.

Then you have people who don't do "compliance" and government officials see this as potential cash cow.

Then you have third category of "clients". These people just are unlucky. The officer "wants" to get a certain sum of money as bribes so they are indiscriminate in who they target. Any fully compliant client "has to" pay to avoid "further complications" and they quietly pay because they don't want hassles.

This website was built by end users who see "oh why do I have to pay a bribe" when most likely they have committed tax fraud and just want to be quiet about it.

Example.

People calling fake deductions in their income tax returns or giving fake donations and claiming deductions. People often say "oh I didn't know" but it'd actually tax fraud so why not face full music of the law if you do it?

If I were a corrupt official in one of the departments I would simply use a vpn and submit a bunch of data for my specific specialty all across the country and then slightly fewer in my own department to drive demand and set market expectations

In India*

A lot of people in western countries are unaware of how bad corruption is in the developing world.

It's not uncommon for something like 80% of government officials of all types to be corrupt, compared to under 5-10% in the west.

Go to one of these countries and you'll see it for yourself first hand if you ever deal with the government in any capacity.

You may start to see the same thing in the west with idelologues such as Trump, who care more about loyalty and power than corruption. He has already removed a lot of checks and balances in the system.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050566

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969051

Could providing a leaderboard drive competition in looking for the highest amount of bribes?

I could see no bribes in my city. Where is this data sourced from? Also its just showing city and department name. Can't find name or photo of person who took the bribe.

Great initiative. But the site is down?! What a shame if the govt. pulled it's leg!!

Bangalore and Bengaluru appear as different options. You need to standardize the input if you're presenting statistics by city.

How did you articulate this data? How real is this ?

Love the concept, please spend sometime with UI, gives a sense that the reported numbers are not serious.

can someone guide me to the developer of this website? i am zaheen from Indian express and i would like to talk to the maker of this app. here's my contact info [email protected]

I was literally thinking to code this other day. Good work.

surprisingly accurate. I've seen the average between median and max being the sweet spot (based on 4 datapoints)

makes me wonder, why aren't the western government as corrupt?

what's the whole mechanism keeping things functioning?

Need San Francisco version.

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