Live outages
Power off your block?
Real-time outage map. See how many neighbors reported in the last 30 minutes, before you waste a UPS cycle.
/lane/out
Hostel City · Islamabad
A doorway for your local.
The hyperlocal feed for the 24,000 students and neighbors of Hostel City. Live outage alerts, current ride fares, roommates, food spots and shared rides — from people who actually live on your block.
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OUTAGE
K-Electric off · Royal Ave
RIDE
COMSATS → Centaurus
ROOM
Room partner needed
FOOD
Karahi @ Maharaja
Section 01 / Lanes
Seven lanes your neighborhood runs on.
No more 17 WhatsApp groups. Posts go into fixed lanes, so finding a roommate or knowing K-Electric is out takes one tap.
Ride fares
What's the fare to Blue Area?
Crowd-sourced InDrive, Careem and Yango fares — updated by people who just took the ride.
/lane/ride
Roommates
Find a room partner.
Filter by hostel, gender, budget and study habits. Karma + phone-verified, so you're not chatting a ghost.
/lane/room
Food spots
Where's the good karahi today?
Reviews and live deals from the dhabas and cafes around COMSATS — only from people in the area.
/lane/food
Carpool
Share the Pindi run.
Find someone heading home to Pindi, Lahore or Murree this weekend. Split fuel, halve the cost.
/lane/carpool
Lost & found
Saw a bike, lost a wallet.
Photo, location, time. Goes to every phone in a 1-km radius — not a buried Facebook post from last year.
/lane/lost
Guide
New here? Start with these.
Curated tips from long-time residents: best laundry, cheapest mobile recharge, which hostel has the best WiFi.
/lane/guide
The killer feature
Know if the power's out
before your UPS dies.
One tap to report electricity, internet, water or gas issues. The map fills with pings from your block in real time. No more 'check the K-Electric Twitter' guesswork.
- Timestamped reports, auto-aggregated by area
- Confirm in one tap, no comment needed
- Auto-clears when service is back
Section 02 / Inside
Designed for a thumb on a moving bus.
Warm paper palette, big tap targets, fonts that read in sunlight. Built mobile-first because you're not on a desktop — you're between classes.
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Light & dark
Automatic theme. Reads on the bus and in the hostel at 2am.
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Low-bandwidth
Cached feeds. Posts queue offline and send when you have signal.
03
Urdu & English
Post in either. Search finds both. No language gatekeeping.
FeedLanesAlertsMe
H
Hira · block A
3 min
Just took Careem to F-7 Markaz. Rs 380, smooth driver. Surge is gone for now.
▲ 18✓ 9 helpful· karma +3
U
Usman · park rd
14 min
Tikka roll wala outside COMSATS gate 2 — 220 rupees, double cheese. Worth it tonight.
LIVE · OUTAGE
Power off · Royal Avenue
23 reports · last 8 min
⚡ Outage 23
🚗 Ride
🛏 Room
🍽 Food
A
Ayesha · hostel 7
7 min
Looking for a roommate, 4th-year CS, non-smoker, prefer single bed. Budget Rs 11k.
▲ 124 connect requests
B
Bilal · chatta b
22 min
New here? Iqbal Laundry near gate 4 is fastest — 24h turnaround.
Section 03 / How
Three taps to inside.
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Verify your phone.
An OTP to your number. That's it. No email, no Facebook login, no 'verify your university ID'.
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Pick your lane.
Your hostel, your block, or the whole Hostel City. You decide what feed you want.
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Post, vote, connect.
Helpful posts earn karma. Karma unlocks connect requests so you can DM a roommate match — without exposing numbers upfront.
Section 04 / Trust
Real neighbors. Not 4chan.
Every account is a verified Pakistani phone number. Spam costs the spammer an SIM. Bad actors lose karma and stop being seen.
Phone-verified
One person, one SIM, one account. Real cost to be a troll.
Karma decays
Helpful today > loud last month. Recent karma weighs heavier so the feed stays fresh.
Numbers stay private
Connect requests handshake first. You only swap contacts after both sides accept.
Built in PK
Made in Islamabad, hosted near you, priced for students. No imported assumptions.
Step through the doorway.
Free. No ads. Open to anyone with a Pakistani phone number.
Scan to install
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