NeighborNotes.
Notice board.

This started as an open-topic university capstone — I could choose any real-world problem to solve. My father owns a residential building, which gave me a first-hand reference point to actually watch how communication breaks down between an owner and residents in practice.

What I found wasn't a small, local quirk. Bangladesh's urban housing market has grown to support over 5.2 crore urban residents, and the same core problem — no direct channel between owner and resident — shows up everywhere, just with different local symptoms: service-charge opacity in Dhaka, sanitation failures in Barisal, absentee landlords in Sylhet. Residents are left with unresolved maintenance calls; owners struggle to coordinate basic building-wide communication. NeighborNotes is the digital notice board I designed and built to close that gap.

I used AI tools to help me research and structure the problem, then cross-checked what I found against public data — BBS census figures, city corporation revenue records, and development authority reports — so the product wouldn't be built around a single anecdote. The pattern held at a national scale, and in most cases was worse than I expected. That regional breakdown is what shaped the product: instead of one generic feature set, each city's specific failure mode maps to a specific NeighborNotes feature.

Beyond the technical build, this project taught me how to turn a vague, personally-observed problem into something backed by real data and scoped into an actual buildable product. The building-code invite system in particular was a good lesson in access control — the instinct to "just let people sign up" is almost never right for a system tied to real physical spaces, and thinking through who should be allowed in, and how do they prove it early on shaped a lot of the rest of the architecture.