Right on stop

The home page
The search page
The property details page
Bottom of the details page
The map tab that shows all the listings and show the details on the side.
The chat bot that helps you with your queries

Rightonstop: Your Transit-First Housing Navigator 🏠🚌

Effortless Commutes. Safer Neighbourhoods. Smarter Student Living.

The Challenge🧩

Drowning in Maps, Missing the Class: For students at York University, finding a home isn't just about the rent, it's about the journey. A student might find a room 3km away only to realize after signing the lease that it takes 45 minutes and two bus transfers to reach campus. With three distinct campuses (Keele, Markham, and Glendon), the complexity of balancing academics with a reliable commute affects student health and quality of life.

The Rightonstop Vision 🌠 Search by Time, Not Distance: Rightonstop flips the housing search on its head. We aren’t just a rental site; we are your all-in-one transit and housing ally. Our platform integrates real-world transit data to show you exactly how long it takes to get to your specific campus. We empower students, especially international students, to make informed decisions based on safety, reliability, and real-time transit routing.

How Rightonstop Navigates Your World 🧭

We guide your journey with five core pillars: -📍 The Time-Based Compass: Filter listings by actual commute time (e.g., "under 25 minutes to Keele") using real transit routing, not just distance. -🛡️ Guardian of Safety: View neighborhood safety scores (1–5) aggregated from public data to assess risk at a glance. -🚦 Reliability Pulse: Get metrics on transit frequency, know if your bus runs every 6 minutes or if a delay could ruin your morning. -🤖 AI Housing Oracle: Use our natural language chat assistant to find properties with simple queries like, "Find me a place under 30 mins from Markham campus". -🗺️ Interactive Path-Finder: Visualize the exact transit route, walking distance to the stop, and campus location on a dynamic map.

Key Technical Features 🪄

-Real-Time Transit Engine: Uses the Geoapify API to calculate accurate transit times to all three York campuses in parallel for lightning-fast results. -Neighborhood Intelligence: Provides detailed safety and reliability context that traditional rental sites ignore. -Conversational Search: Powered by Gemini, our AI assistant offers personalized results and remembers your preferences across follow-ups. -Multi-Campus Comparison: Instantly toggle between Keele, Markham, and Glendon to see how a single listing commutes to different locations.

Our Tech Stack 🔮

-Next.js 14: For a fast, responsive UI and efficient server-side rendering. -Tailwind CSS: Sleek, modern styling for a user-friendly student experience. -Leaflet & React-Leaflet: Powering interactive maps with custom route visualizations. -Geoapify Routing & Places: The "engine" that computes real transit paths and identifies the nearest bus stops. -Gemini: Enabling our natural language housing assistant through server actions.

Challenges We Ran Into ⚔️

During development, we tackled: -Translating the Complex: We built custom logic to translate dense, technical API data into clear, human-readable transit instructions. -The Speed Ritual: To manage three campuses simultaneously without lag, we implemented parallel API calls and a custom caching system to reduce redundant requests and keep the app lightning-fast. -Cartographic Clarity: We overcame the technical difficulty of rendering complex GeoJSON paths accurately onto our Leaflet maps to ensure students could see their exact route. -Whispering to the AI: We fine-tuned our AI's prompt design so it could reliably interpret natural language and convert it into precise commute plans.

Accomplishments We’re Proud Of 🏆

-The Time-Engine: Successfully built a housing search engine that prioritizes minutes over miles. -Real-World Integration: Successfully integrated live transit routing data rather than relying on static, deceptive distance estimates. -The Triple-Campus Toggle: Designed a seamless UX that allows students to instantly switch between Keele, Markham, and Glendon to compare their commute options.

What We Learned 📖

Our journey taught us that solving a real-world user pain point requires a perfect marriage of technical execution and product thinking. We learned that a feature is only as good as the problem it solves for the student.

Next Steps on Our Journey ✨

Live Listing Integration: Connecting directly to real-time feeds from Kijiji and property manager portals. -Predictive Delay Modeling: Helping students understand which routes typically add time during Friday rush hours. -Roommate Matching: Expanding the community to help students find peers to share these transit-friendly homes.

Why Choose Rightonstop? 📚✨

Rightonstop is more than an app; it’s your dedicated commute companion. Designed to take the guesswork out of moving, it gives you the confidence to live where you want while ensuring you arrive at campus on time, every time. Experience Smarter Housing: Focus on your studies, not the bus schedule. Join the Transit Revolution: Let's create a world where your home is defined by how you live, not how far you have to walk.