Interview: David Rooney and Vincent Glennon of JustRoutes.com
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!