Mike Colman

I hope you enjoy the app. I look forward to continuing updates with new features as it grows. End/

I’m not an iOS engineer by any means, but this is the second app I’ve made, using AI and my thoughts on how I want the app to work. I was fortunate on this app to have several testers finding bugs and requesting needed features to get it to this point. 9/

Last week I launched my iOS app HomeGrind App. It allows home baristas to set up their own coffee shop and prepare drinks for friends/family, just like a real cafe. In just a weekend, 650+ baristas globally have set up their shop! 1/

Transferring to the F train at Broadway-Lafayette and noticed on my app there were no F train arrivals. Glad I added in the delay alerts, so I can see what’s going on. I really do use this thing every day, very happy I created it.

@sgorlick Where’s the side story of what happened to all the earbuds? I’m sure there are some DOps that still have piles of them.

6/ By mid-2014, we were spending more than $100 million a year on iPhones. But we no longer needed to. Because almost every new driver had a smartphone. It was time to let drivers use their own phones and go BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). Here’s what happened next…

Today, Uber is a $155B company with 7M drivers. But in the early days, we had a big problem: Most drivers didn’t have smartphones to use Uber. Here’s the inside story of how Uber accidentally became the world’s largest buyer of iPhones...

I did learn late in my journey there is an open source project (realtimerail.nyc) that does similar to what I wanted, but my app is a bit more simplified to a singular direction.

Give it a try if you live or work in NYC and think it might be helpful. nextstop.nyc

It’s great if you live or work near a station. As we get ready to head out, it’s nice to know if a train is 3 mins away and we need to rush out, or 15 mins away and we have time to relax.

Sure, there’s CityMapper, Google Maps, etc, but they require a destination or multiple steps to get info on the next train arrival. The MTA website has this information too, but I can’t save my station for 1-click access to it. I basically wanted a subway screen in my apartment.

I learned a bit of Python during the pandemic and know the MTA has an open API, so I decided to get to work. First I built it just for my home station and shared with our neighbors. I decided to throw it on a website and add all the other stations.

My wife and I live near a subway line and it takes us about 2 mins to get from our door to the platform. It bothered me that as we get ready to go somewhere, it’s wasn’t easy to know when the trains are coming. We’d get to the platform only to realize the train is 15 mins away.

I’ve been working on a small side project that I’m ready to share publicly. It’s nextstop.nyc and does one thing… shows the next arriving trains for a given subway platform.