Bribes.fyi: Delhi student’s anti-bribery website goes viral online

A Delhi B.Tech student has built a free website called Bribes.fyi that lets citizens anonymously report being asked for bribes at government offices.

The platform was created by Aryan Nishad, a student at Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, who used AI-assisted coding to build it.

Users can file a report in about a minute by entering basic details of the incident, after which it is published anonymously with identifying details removed.

The site has collected 616 reports from 251 cities since going live on July 2, with police departments accounting for the largest share at 337 entries.

Reports are organised by department, city and state, giving the public a searchable view of where bribery complaints are most commonly filed.

The platform has gone viral on social media recently, with many users praising the simple, anonymous design as a practical tool for surfacing corruption patterns.

The platform does not verify individual claims before publishing them, relying instead on aggregate, anonymised data to surface patterns rather than pursue individual cases.

The idea follows a broader tradition of crowdsourced anti-corruption reporting tools that have surfaced periodically in India over the years, though Bribes.fyi has stood out for the speed with which it was built and its rapid early adoption.

The platform’s low-friction, minute-long reporting process is widely seen as a key reason for its quick early adoption compared to more formal complaint mechanisms.

Nishad, a B.Tech student at Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology in Delhi, used AI-assisted coding to build the platform from scratch.

The website went live on July 2 and has since gathered 616 reports from 251 cities across the country.

Police departments account for the highest number of reports on the platform so far, with 337 entries alone.

Users can submit a report in about a minute by entering basic details of the incident, after which identifying information is stripped and the report becomes part of a publicly searchable database.

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