WolfiePool
Verified student-only ride matching for campus trips.
By
Vraj Chetankumar Patel
Semester
Spring 2026
Problem
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.
Solution
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.
User flow
- 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
LLM components
- Cluster summarization & fare Q&A — Gemini 2.5 Flash chatbot
- Voice narration — Eleven Labs TTS for match alerts and departure countdowns
Tools
- LLM: Gemini 2.5 Flash
- TTS: Eleven Labs
- Stack: standard web app stack (frontend + backend + auth)