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WolfiePool

Verified student-only ride matching for campus trips.

ridesharecampusGeminiTTSmatching

By

Vraj Chetankumar Patel

Semester

Spring 2026

Students often overpay for solo Ubers when others are headed the same direction — but there's no way to automatically find and coordinate them. Manual coordination via group chats is unreliable, and no verified, student-only coordination tool exists. Existing solutions can't guarantee that the person you're riding with is actually a Stony Brook student.

A web app where students configure their ride preferences (To Campus / From Campus, date, departure window) and get automatically matched into ride clusters going the same direction. Fares split by distance — closer drops pay proportionally less. A real-time in-cluster chat coordinates the trip, and voice announcements provide match alerts, departure countdowns, and late-night safety tips.

  • Configure ride preferences (direction, date, departure window)
  • Get automatically matched into a ride cluster
  • Coordinate with the cluster in private real-time chat
  • Receive voice announcements for match confirmation, 5-minute countdown, and safety tips
  • Fares split fairly by distance
  • Cluster summarization & fare Q&A — Gemini 2.5 Flash chatbot
  • Voice narration — Eleven Labs TTS for match alerts and departure countdowns
  • LLM: Gemini 2.5 Flash
  • TTS: Eleven Labs
  • Stack: standard web app stack (frontend + backend + auth)