▲ 0 r/cycling
Been doing bike deliveries and got tired of Google Maps sending me down unlit streets at night, so I built a bike nav app that scores routes for safety
reddit.comu/Obvious-Comedian5317 — 23 hours ago
▲ 4 r/NightCycling
Been doing bike deliveries and got tired of Google Maps sending me down unlit streets at night, so I built a bike nav app that scores routes for safety
Do a lot of bike/e-bike delivery work and kept running into the same problem — every nav app optimizes for speed, not whether the route's actually safe to ride at night. Poorly lit streets, high traffic exposure, sketchy intersections — none of that factors in, and when you're out riding for hours after dark it adds up.
So I built Svelta. Every route gets a safety score alongside the ETA (lighting, traffic exposure, real-time conditions), so you can see the trade-off before you commit, not find out the hard way three suburbs in.
Other stuff in it:
Turn-by-turn nav, day/night map themes
Live weather alerts along your actual route
Plain-English bike/e-bike law breakdown by state/province (AU, US, Canada)
Free, ad-supported, no account needed — your data stays on your device
Still early (just added US/Canada coverage), so genuinely keen for feedback from anyone else doing delivery work — you'll notice the safety scoring more than most riders will.
Soon on iOS 🚲
u/Obvious-Comedian5317 — 23 hours ago
Vortext - Prompt to Full written content.
I built an AI writing tool that actually finishes what you started.
Most AI writers give you a wall of generic text and call it done.
I built Vortext differently — you describe what you want (a short story, a script, a transcript, an essay, anything written), it drafts the whole thing, shows you a free preview so you know it's good, and you only pay if you want to download the full piece.
No subscription. No monthly fee. Pay per piece, starting from a few dollars.
Currently supporting: fiction, scripts, transcripts, blog posts, speeches, emails, book chapters — pretty much anything written.
Would love some honest feedback from this community.
u/Obvious-Comedian5317 — 3 months ago