I did a few side projects. Maybe it will be useful for others.

I remember back in the day Where is the bus? app. UI/UX needed improvements in my opinion, but the idea was good.

Now I have free time. I am a (geo)developer myself, and with today’s AI, one-man shipping can be done much easier, so I finally did my idea from 6-7 years ago, as a side project and to supplement myself.

I made a public transport app called What? Where?

Available on both iOS and Google Play: https://www.miskuhu.ee/sticker

The goal is quite simple: you open the app and quickly understand when the next bus, tram or train is coming and how to get there. I also used the RAPTOR algorithm in the route planner. It can continuously supplement the journey planner with real-time data. Does not use an external service.

Tallinn City Transport also liked my choice of vehicle design. In the spring, they changed the vehicle icons into mummies and used the colors of public transport, almost. The trams did turn Elron orange 😀

The real-time data is updated approximately every 5 seconds and the focus is currently on Tallinn and Tartu. For other locations, I recommend good old peatus.ee or Google Maps. Their guide is generally the best anyway.

In the app you can see:

• buses, trams and trains on the map in real time
• the following exits of the stops
• next stops and schedule for a specific vehicle
• route search

The app also collects information about the use of stops. I thought that maybe I could make interesting statistics and analytics based on this later: which origin-destination matrices stand out, which stops are disproportionately popular, etc. Such topics are simply interesting.

Subscriptioni making it was purely a hand exercise and does not interfere with the basic functionalities. I wanted to try out the whole process that goes along with the app publishing and payment system.

Another small application, Kraad, is for viewing the measured current temperature from the nearest weather station in Estonia.

In the spring, it was constantly viewed from the point of view of children: what to wear. They asked it themselves all the time. Almost all weather apps and widgets show a model forecast calculated the night before. In the spring we had a difference of 5+ degrees here in places between the model and the actual measurement.

Android: Degree Google Play

iOS: Degree App Store

As a side topic: if anyone has an idea for an exciting (geo) application that they would like or could use, feel free to let us know. If the idea is interesting and exciting to do yourself, then maybe you can do it. Monetizationit I’m not chasing. I just want to do something.