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▲ 19 r/bcferries

Building an app that tells you your ferry is late before you're in the lineup

Working on an app called FerryFetch, basically a flight tracker for ferries. The idea is simple: your ferry info in one place, no tab hopping, no guessing.

You open it and see where your boat is, whether it's on time or late and by how much, and how much deck space is left on your sailing and the next one. If anything affects your sailing, a delay, a cancellation, rough weather, you get a notification the moment it happens. No refreshing anything.

Starting with BC Ferries and Hullo, more operators and regions after that. One app that works the same everywhere, instead of a different one for every operator.

The app is in active development, the prototype works, getting close to release.
Waitlist while I finish: https://ferryfetch.com

Not affiliated with BC Ferries or any operator.

So, what's the ferry info you wish you had sooner? And any feature ideas, things you'd want it to do that nothing currently does.

u/b_dozzer — 13 days ago
▲ 93 r/VancouverIsland

Building a ferry tracking app for Island routes, want feedback from people who sail often

Hey folks,

checking if your sailing is on time means Current Conditions, then Twitter, then a Facebook group, then a marine traffic map, and you still guess. When the boat's late, your whole day shifts.

I'm building an app called FerryFetch to pull that into one place, starting with BC Ferries and Hullo. The goal is other operators and regions after that.

For your sailing:

  • where the ferry is right now, on a live map
  • on time or late, and by how much
  • alerts for delays and cancellations, plus an early heads-up when a late inbound ferry or weather might affect you
  • vehicle-deck space for your sailing and the next one
  • all your upcoming sailings on one screen

Check-in reminders, schedules with holiday changes, weather-delay risk, calendar sync, and CarPlay are on the way.

I'm not the operator and can't fix the sailings. What the app does is make sure you know as soon as something changes, in one place.

Still in development, so for now it's a waitlist while I build: https://ferryfetch.com

Feedback wanted from people who ride these routes: would you use this? What matters most, and what's the one ferry-info thing that you would like to see?

u/b_dozzer — 1 month ago