Citi Bike
EXPERIMENT
A dead simple site to find the nearest empty station.
- Tags
- Dev Geolocation NYC Hacky
- Technologies
- Sveltekit JSON scraping
Okay, Citi Bike got rid of this loophole, so this site is less relevant: it finds the nearest station with no bikes available, so you can get a free ride on an e-bike (by docking it and undocking it again).
My friend and I were talking about this, and I thought it would be fun to build a site that would find the nearest empty station. I built it in a few hours, and it’s live at citibike.vercel.app. The most fun part was spelunking in the Citi Bike JSON data to find the right fields to use. Nothing special, but fun and useful for me :~)