Web application
Bikun Tracker
Real-time tracking for Universitas Indonesia's campus buses.
- Year
- 2025
- Project type
- Web application
- Tech stack
- ReactDockerGolang
- Other contributors
Overview
BIKUN Tracker is a web-based application built to make getting around the Universitas Indonesia (UI) campus a lot easier. It tracks the campus "Bis Kuning" (Yellow Bus) in real-time, solving the old problem of unpredictable bus schedules. The goal was to help students and campus staff navigate the Depok campus by giving them accurate estimated times of arrival (ETA) and live bus locations directly from their browsers.
Impact
- It gained solid traction right away, bringing in over 17,000 active users and handling thousands of daily visitors smoothly.
- The tracker cuts down average waiting times at the bus stops by around 10 minutes.
- As a Fullstack Developer, I helped build out the platform from end to end, making sure it handled real traffic and genuinely made the daily commute better and safer for the UI community.
What I learned
- Campus apps get hit hard right before morning classes. This project taught me a lot about optimizing both the frontend and backend to handle thousands of students checking the app at the exact same time.
- I learned how to effectively manage live location data so the bus movements show up smoothly on the map without causing performance issues.