In October 2005, Phanindra ‘Phani’ Sama could not get a bus ticket to go home for Diwali. An electronics engineer with Texas Instruments in Bangalore, he visited his parents in Hyderabad every alternate weekend. His agent said no tickets were available, but referred him to someone else. This struck Phani as odd; how could one agent have tickets and another have no idea about seat availability on the same bus?
To vet his curiosity, he visited a few bus agents and realised a bus agent had inventory only for a few seats on each bus. "Why can't there be a common server where all bus operators could offer tickets on a first-come-first-served basis? If it is so easy to book airline or train tickets online, why can't we have a similar system for buses?" he wondered. Phani did not get a bus ticket home for the festival weekend, and this spurred him to think deeper about the issue.
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