Hey everyone,
Remember the Porsche kid in Pune? You know, the one where a 17-year-old allegedly mowed down two people while drunk, and the initial punishment was writing a 300-word essay on road safety? Yeah, that one. Where the blood samples mysteriously got swapped, and suddenly we were all living in a Bollywood thriller nobody asked for. [Pune Porsche Case on Deadline]
Oh wait, you probably don’t remember it anymore because we’ve moved on to the next outrage of the week. That’s exactly the problem.
What is deadline.click?
An open source accountability ledger that tracks stories until they actually get justice. Not just until people stop making memes about them. We’re building a timeline-based interface where you can follow incidents from “this is outrageous” to “wait, what happened to that case?” to hopefully “justice served” (rare drops, legendary tier).
checkout: https://deadline.click
Think of it as a bookmark manager, except instead of saving articles you’ll never read, we’re saving stories that shouldn’t be forgotten just because they’re not trending anymore.
The actual plan:
Create a self-sustaining autonomous news organization that aggregates multiple perspectives, statements, and arguments on incidents. The goal? Bring some rationality to public discourse and maybe hold leaders accountable for longer than one news cycle.
We’re also adding:
- Radio feature
- Politician profiles
- Scan through reddit, youtube, comments, etc.
- A corruption leaderboard (Forbes-style, but actually useful)
- Timeline updates that persist even after the hashtag dies
Tech Stack:
- Frontend: Next.js
- Backend: Python (migrating to Frappe soon)
- Database: Supabase
- Primary fuel: Spite, chai, and existential dread
GitHub: Deadline.click · GitHub
Why we’re here:
We’re final year students who apparently thought building this was easier than therapy. We need guidance from people who’ve built sustainable open source projects without losing their minds completely. How do we keep this running long-term? How do we handle the inevitable trolls and “you’re biased” accusations? How do we fund this without selling our souls?
Also, if anyone’s hiring or wants to collaborate, or just wants to tell us our database schema is a mess, please reach out:
We’re actively looking for internships/jobs, ideally ones where we don’t have to pretend systemic issues don’t exist.
Check out the repo, contribute if you want, or just tell us this is doomed to fail. We’re collecting all kinds of feedback at this point.
Because apparently, in 2025, we need an app to remember that rich kids shouldn’t get away with murder just because they can write essays.
Durva & Om
