Village Finder serves interactive maps for over 78,000 Indian villages, refreshes its own geographic datasets daily, and streams live agricultural market prices.
It does all of this with no dedicated backend, no database server, and a monthly infrastructure bill of exactly ₹0.
Here is the exact architecture behind the project, including a highly effective pattern for zero-cost static architectures: weaponizing transient Git branches as a free, high-availability, CORS-enabled data CDN.
To achieve massive scale at absolute zero cost, the stack relies strictly on edge infrastructure:
GitHub Pages: Serves the frontend mapping applications (Vanilla JS + Leaflet.js, intentionally bypassing complex frontend frameworks for zero build-step latency).
