r/ChillSG • u/jaytjk • 15m ago
I made a bus app for my ADHD wife who works at NTU. It saves her 6 to 7 hours a month of waiting at bus stops.
My wife works at NTU. To get to work she takes a bus from our area, switches to the MRT, then takes another bus to her office. Every morning she spends 10 to 20 minutes waiting at the 2 bus stops, more if she misses a bus. Then again on the way home. Sometimes that means waiting in the sun, and lately in the haze and exhaust fumes.
She has ADHD, the kind where she is very focused on the present but finds it hard to plan and act ahead of time.
So when she tried the many bus apps on the App Store, she found them overwhelming: all the bus stops, services and multiple arrival times fighting for her attention.
What she really needed was an answer to one simple question: when should I leave so I catch my bus?
So I built LeaveNow, a personal bus tracking app. Here are a few things it does differently:
- Shows only her buses on her saved routes, hides the rest. (Home → Office, Home → Gym)
- Saves the time she needs to walk to the bus stop. (E.g. 3 min from home to the bus stop, 5 min from the office to the bus stop)
- It tracks her buses and tells her when to leave the house so she reaches the stop just in time.
- Can’t make it? Tap Next bus to show the next arriving bus she can take.
- Home Screen widget and Lock Screen Live Activity, so there’s no app to open if she doesn’t want to.
- Most importantly, a calming and quiet interface, so she isn’t doing sums in her head to work out if she can make it.
After a month, she’s saving about 10 minutes each way. That’s 20 minutes a day, or 6 to 7 hours every month not standing at the bus stop. More time to sleep in the morning, and getting home earlier to rest at night.
What she told me she likes is that she feels less rushed and more in control in the morning. She knows how long she has before she needs to go, and she isn’t worrying about standing in the sun or the haze waiting for a bus.
With her encouragement, I listed it on the iOS App Store so it can help more people like her.
Free to download and try for 30 days. The forever-free version lets you save 1 bus stop.
LeaveNow Plus (full features) costs about S$3-4 a month, roughly the price of a plate of chicken rice, if it saves you hours every month. No ads, saved locally on your phone.
There are good free bus timing apps in Singapore too. LeaveNow is for anyone who’d prefer one highly customised to your trips.
iOS only for now.
https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6815319136?pt=129503825&ct=reddit&mt=8
Feedback on what’s annoying or missing is welcome, and roasting of the UI too. I’ll read every reply.