u/Advanced-Jacket4393

Hey all. I'm Tom, a British software engineer. I used to work at Spotify but recently left my job to develop a platform dedicated to city-cycling with the goals of making it safer and easier. I roped in my cofounder Kyle, who has a geospatial science background, and we spent the last year building a cycling app focused solely on city cycling.

It's called Cyclemate, is free with no ads, and it works on desktop, phone browser, Android and iPhone. Our core features:

• Safer A to B routing and turn by turn navigation. We built our own routing model for the 4 cities we're launched in (we call it SuperSafe mode), that heavily prioritizes city-managed cycleways/protected bike lanes and low traffic residential streets. You can read about it here but happy to elaborate more! We also support routing via Santander bike stations.
• See cycle ways, traffic lights, give way signs and safety colours in the planner and while you navigate (that includes all TFL cycleways)
• Route planning and custom routes. You can plan a route using our planner (or upload GPX), tweak it, and then follow it on your phone with full navigation.
• Group rides. Create a ride, customize the event page, plan the router using our planner (or upload GPX) and then collect RSVPs from potential attendees. Riders get turn-by-turn directions to the event and along your route -- they can also see each other in real-time on a map as they cycle.
• Tools for local organizations. We built tooling for local organizations to actually explore our network and influence it in real-time - down to an individual road or intersections (a bit more about that here). That allows us to toggle roads on/off when construction happens, or when we're made aware of a dangerous junction that we didn't account for.

We're working on it full-time so we're pushing out new features very quickly. Would love to hear feedback from this community - what do/don't you like? what would you like to see?