mypnralerts

Vishal Gupta was travelling home in 2012. Checking the latest status of a waitlisted ticket was the most annoying problem for him, as it is for all train travelers. It was that time the idea of PNR Alerts stuck to him. He launched a website in Feb 2012 with the functionality to track wait-listed PNR ticket of users and to alert them whenever its status gets changed.

After finishing my Masters in Computer Application from NIT Jamshedpur in the year 2011, Vishal Gupta joined an IT company in Bangalore. He started working on the idea implemented it so that the services were provided absolutely free of cost to users. "My expectation from this was to give satisfaction to my heart and not for profit," he says.

MyPNRAlerts is online startup based out of Bangalore, the website is entirely developed, maintained and owned by Vishal Gupta. It doesnot have any promoters, partners or owners.

MyPNRAlerts provides following services to its users –

  • PNR Status Alert -
    Create alert for waitlisted PNR status and get alerts by Email & SMS whenever PNR status changes.

  • Seat Availability Alert -
    Create Seat Availability alerts for you future journey. This will keep a track on the number of seats available on a train and will alert you constantly so that you can make reservations on time and you get confirmed tickets.

  • Passing By trains -
    This will give an overview of all the trains that will be passing from a particular station in the next few hours.

  • Current Booking Availability -
    Many a times, some of the seats are still vacant even after chart preparation is done. You can even book tickets for that train. This feature will show the list of trains departing from a station with vacant seats after chart preparation.



Notably, another relevant service available providing railways information but nor PNR alerts, that we reviewed in July this year is ConfirmTkt which is a tool which assists the users in predicting confirmation chances of their train tickets with an unbelievable accuracy.

Notably, sometime back ERail.info, a website catering to Indian railways information, released ERail API for developers as single source of database for Indian railways information which enables them to develop apps or websites which can provide information related to Indian Railways Trains using an HTTP request. Using ERail API You can get the list of stations, trains between stations, route of a train, current running status of the train and get PNR current status.

About appreciation of MyPNRAlerts received, Vishals says - "I love when users appreciate it. This gives me more energy and passion to continuously work towards it," . He is using JAVA and REST framework that makes the platform more scalable and it is hosted on Amazon Web Services which makes it more accessible. The platform is being handled alone by him. MyPNR Alerts just launched an Android App. The company plans to approach travel partner for integration of the services.

As a message for future entrepreneurs, Vishal says, "Everything that scares you is an opportunity to know your best self better. Do what your heart believes is right. Focus on the usability of the idea, once you are up to this then look for the profit."

[caption id="attachment_95393" align="aligncenter" width="700"]Screens of MyPNRAlerts Android app Screens of MyPNRAlerts Android app [/caption]
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