Comment by aaronbrethorst
1 day ago
I’m still building OneBusAway Cloud, which you can think of as being Heroku for public transit.
It’s a project of the non-profit Open Transit Software Foundation that we’re using to fund our other initiatives, like bringing real-time transit information to billions of people around the world.
Since last month, I've added a layer of polish to the product, added support for deploying a SMS and phone gateway to realtime transit information, and built out the marketing website to include solutions pages for higher education, SMS, and more.
All of this depends on a bunch of really cool open source projects we’re building, like Maglev, a Golang server that can power realtime transit apps. Maglev is already being used in production, and you can set up a local install in about 15 minutes: https://opentransitsoftwarefoundation.org/2026/04/setting-up...
The other OSS projects we have include: building data products, iOS and Android apps, web apps, a Pebble watch app(!), and too many others to list. See them all here: https://github.com/onebusaway/
We’re always looking for volunteers, especially people outside of the engineering disciplines: https://ossvolunteers.com/organizations/open-transit-softwar...
How'd you come up with your pricing?
Happy to chat about it with you. Email me at aaron@onebusaway.org