Intruders.tv

As one of the most promient media technology companies coming out of Ireland, Intruders.tv can be found all over the country covering events dealing with technology. At the recent DemoBar in Dublin, they took the time out to have a chat with Dave and myself. You can catch the video here, to see us in our early days when we were still wet behind the ears, maybe we still are, who knows. Tune into it as Conn O Muineachain tours all the other Irish Web Startups on his site.

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JustRoutes.com mashes bus and rail timetables with Google maps, and the location of every single bus-stop on the routes covered. The result is one of the most useful web applications imaginable for anyone who wants to get from A to B.

Last Summer, Vincent Glennon and Dave Rooney had the idea for a website that would help them to get around Dublin. 6 weeks later they launched the first version at the Web2Ireland Demobar / FOWA Roadtrip event in Dublin, where this interview was recorded for Intruders.TV.

Since then, they’ve added another 2000 Dublin Bus stops and started work on the national bus routes. They now have all Dublin inbound routes covered and all expressway routes as well. Altogether, half of the national routes are covered.

They’ve been named as one of the top 10 new startups in Europe and they exhibited at FOWA in London. Blognation’s Ewan Spence recorded a podcast with them there.

JustRoutes.com is great story of entrepreneurship, which illustrates beautifully what can be done with the current state of technology. Dave and Vinny have had no outside investment or help. All they had was a great idea, and the Web 2.0 ecosystem provided all the tools and resources they needed to build it into a working, useful application. This is one to watch!


One Comment to “Intruders.tv”  

  1. 1 Whistle

    the concept of Justroutes is excellent, if dublin Bus or the Dept of Transport had a clue they would buy the concept and resource it properly. as it is, there are glaring ommissions and errors and it would be far better to take it offline until it is reliable. Of the few routes I have checked, 25% are wrong and I would not use the site of I wanted to plan a trip to an area I did not know for fear of ending up miles off target. Sorry, I do support the concept but it needs to be accurate first.
    Whistle

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