About Kanha
Founder and developer of CurbScout. One person wrote the app, the curb rule engine, the city data builds and the self-hosted routing behind it. Questions about the data go to the person who wrote the code — email the founder.
The work
CurbScout reads street-parking rules block by block in 32 US cities: meter inventories, sweeping schedules, sign records and curb regulations from city records, turned into a map that says where you can legally park right now, then turn-by-turn directions to the correct curb side.
The data pipeline is the product. Where a city publishes nothing usable, the data comes from public-records requests filed with that city, and from time spent checking signs at the curb. When the records cannot say whether a block is legal, the app says unknown instead of guessing.
Experience
- Built and shipped CurbScout for iPhone, released on the App Store in September 2026.
- Assembled the 32-city parking data pipeline from city open-data feeds, public-records requests and field checks, with monthly rebuilds that reach the app without an app update.
- Designed the curb rule engine that decides legal, not legal or unknown for a block at a given time, and the ranking that turns those verdicts into a short list of suggestions along your route.
- Analyzed 1.3 million San Francisco parking citations to find the blocks, violations and neighborhoods where drivers actually get ticketed.
Writing
- San Francisco wrote 1.3 million parking tickets last year. Here's exactly where. — every citation the city recorded over twelve months, mapped by block, violation and neighborhood, with what each ticket costs and how to avoid the common ones.
- Los Angeles wrote 1.9 million parking tickets last year. Here's exactly where. — the same analysis for the city of Los Angeles: 1,928,025 citations mapped by block, violation and neighborhood, including the $293 bus-lane camera tickets.