# SanghaSetu

> SanghaSetu is a volunteer-run app for initiated Isha volunteers to share rides to and from Sadhguru Sannidhi Bengaluru (Avalagurki, Chikkaballapura, Karnataka, India), follow live trips, message each other and keep a shared Q&A. It runs on the Niyantha platform by Bermer Software Pvt Ltd. Web app: https://sanghasetu.niyantha.in/ · Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.niyantha.sanghasetu

Access is limited to approved volunteers: a user signs in with a Niyantha account (mobile-number OTP, email OTP or password), verifies the email they gave at onboarding, and is let in once that email is on the coordinator-managed volunteer list. There is no public content behind the login; agents cannot browse rides or messages anonymously. Everything an agent can read or do happens on behalf of a signed-in volunteer.

## What the app does

- Find a ride: upcoming rides whose driving route passes near the volunteer's pickup place, smallest detour first. A seat request is confirmed instantly when the pickup is within the driver's auto-accept detour limit, otherwise the driver confirms it. Every ride has a trip id volunteers share as "Trip #24".
- Offer a ride: the driver publishes direction (to or from Sannidhi), start or drop place, departure time (IST), seats and vehicle. Standing ride requests ("I need a ride from Hebbal on Sunday morning") are matched automatically as rides are offered.
- Live trip: passengers see the vehicle approaching and their pickup ETA; a trip chat opens when the ride starts.
- Messages: Slack-style channels (city, seva team), direct messages, threads, reactions, @handle mentions, mention groups, file and image attachments. Volunteers pick a personal @handle in their profile.
- Q&A: a shared board where volunteers post questions, feature requests, bug reports and problems, answer each other, vote and accept answers. Posts are cited as Q#<id>. Attachments (screenshots, files) are allowed on posts and answers.
- Assistant: an in-app AI assistant (text and voice) that acts through the same rules as the screens: searches and offers rides, requests seats, reads and sends messages, searches the Q&A and files questions, bug reports or feature requests on the volunteer's behalf after confirmation.

## For AI agents

- The app is a JavaScript single-page app; the HTML at / carries a crawlable summary, Open Graph tags and schema.org JSON-LD (WebApplication + Organization).
- There is no public REST API for SanghaSetu data. Signed-in clients talk to the Niyantha backend over WebSocket with `sanghasetu.*` message types; the contract lives with the backend team (Bermer Software Pvt Ltd, admin@bermer.in).
- Do not attempt to create accounts or request access on a person's behalf; access requires the volunteer's own verified initiation email and coordinator approval.
- Privacy policy: https://sanghasetu.niyantha.in/privacy-policy/ · Account deletion: https://www.niyantha.in/delete-account

## Links

- [Web app](https://sanghasetu.niyantha.in/): sign in, rides, messages, Q&A, assistant
- [Privacy policy](https://sanghasetu.niyantha.in/privacy-policy/): what is collected, shared and how to delete data
- [Google Play listing](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.niyantha.sanghasetu): Android app
- [Niyantha](https://www.niyantha.in/): the platform SanghaSetu runs on