[aaronbrethorst]

Psst, Seattle also has a reliable, free, and open source pair of apps for knowing where you bus is and when it’ll arrive. These apps are built and maintained entirely by volunteers. (In the case of iOS, this is basically just me.)

If you have any background in iOS or Android development and want to help improve your own commute in Seattle, come check out our projects and pick up a bug or two. Hundreds of thousands of people will thank you for it.

iOS: https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-iphone/

Android: https://github.com/OneBusAway/onebusaway-android

Come talk to us on Slack: https://onebusaway.herokuapp.com/

[news_to_me]

Let me buy you a beer sometime. I can't tell you how valuable OneBusAway has been to me and my friends — no other transit apps I've seen in any city have come close to the utility it provides (even if the estimates are sometimes a bit off).

[aaronbrethorst]

Thanks, I appreciate it :)

[aeling]

Thanks for everything you do - your app is a huge part of the reason I can live in the Seattle area without a car.

One note - I just donated, but I almost bailed out when I saw I had to go through the whole UW process (especially when I then paid with PayPal, which has all of that info anyway....). I'm sure you're restricted to using their platform, but even better PayPal integration would go a long way.

Thanks again!

[aaronbrethorst]

I hope that this can be made much easier in the future.

[hampelm]

I love OneBusAway -- thanks for your work! We've got it in active use in Detroit, powering 100s of thousands of requests a day. Wish I could contribute to the core (I'm not a java dev) but it's a truly impactful system.

[aaronbrethorst]

That's awesome! Are you only using the backend, or are you using the mobile clients, too? I'd love to talk with you more about the Detroit deployment as this is the first I've heard about it. Can you email me at [e-mail]?

[stephengillie]

This was the only saving grace for Seattle's various bus systems. Thank you for your work, and linking to where I might contribute too.

[Jesus_Jones]

I use onebusaway almost every day in Seattle, thanks for your work. Edit - i see you have a donation page.

[loeg]

OneBus is awesome and I use it every time I ride the bus. Thanks for your volunteer work.

[hermenaut]

Thank you