We built an app for the city – built in Zurich, for Zurich. The mods gave us one approved self-promo. This is it."
Quick acknowledgment to u/Glittering-Heron-231: thanks for the exception. We know these are rare, and we'll try to make it worth your bandwidth.
Hi. I'm Patrick.
We’ve spent the past few months building a context-aware companion for Zurich. We call it ARI iOS preview goes live this month. Before we open the doors for the general public, we're picking 500 pioneers who actually live the city – and I came here to ask if any of you want to be one. (Registration: https://www.livemap.ch - one field, 8 seconds. No ads, no data resale, no subscription trap kicking in after three months. If it doesn't work for you, three clicks and you're out. What you feed us back shapes what v2 looks like.
The problem we're chasing. Your phone is full of apps that know where you are but not what's actually moving you. That's the gap ARI sits in. It guides you from your "here and now" to your "next" — sometimes the obvious next, sometimes one you wouldn't have known to search for.” It will do so based on context, the weather, what's on around the corner, what you liked last time, who's free. Not a search engine, not a map. More like a quiet companion.
Why might this be worth your attention? We descend from a dynasty of founding fathers who sold Endoxon to Google back in 2006 – code, tech stack, the people – and what they scaled it to is now called Google Maps. Our big sister, Axon Vibe, runs the EasyRide smart-ticketing platform for SBB and other transit operators in UK and beyond. Mobility & navigation infrastructure isn't our first attempt. It's our third decade.
One last thing – if you've ever asked Google Maps for a swim spot and ended up where the Limmat current "has opinions" – tell me in the comments. That's exactly the kind of friction we built ARI to take off your day.
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Patrick and the LiveMap Team
PS: we’re looking for a geospatial / routing engineer, If you happen to know someone, well… You know the drill