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data.indiadispatch.com

2 points·jmsflknr··2 comments

A website that automatically scraps and aggregates all data on the Indian economy -- including payments, electricity usage, employment -- from painful-to-visit-and-read government, regulator websites.

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Nice design! Love the colors and presentation.

Few observations, not meant as a knock -

- When you said economy, I was expecting GDP front and center, but the site opens with UPI (which is like venmo or zelle?). That struck me odd. The second section was about credit cards. Finally the third section talks about inflation and work output etc. I'd probably lead with that.

- It reads very LLM-y, which makes me skeptical about the data itself (which for all we know is 100% accurate but still ..)

I built the site and scrapers with the LLMs, but the data has been completely validated and there are many checks in place -- including manual supervision by me -- to ensure there is no hallucination.

So, UPI is the most popular way Indians transact online. More than 85% of online transactions are via UPI, so how UPI is used gives you a greater visibility into how the India is spending.

But point taken on the LLM-y sentences/vibe. I can absolutely fix those. I built the site because when I was a journalist, I used to spend a lot of time visiting these government websites to get all the data out. And in my new profession, we spend a lot of money to analysts to just give us a lot of this same data points.

Thanks for the feedback!!

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