Show HN: Oyster Alerts is live and looking for testers in London, England
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Congrats on the launch. How does it work on your end? Are you using an official API or doing it another way?
It's screen scraping as TFL don't offer an API for this unfortunately. Would that put you off?
I am happy to share my latest side project in the hope of gaining some value first users and feedback.
If you use railways in London you will (or maybe not) be aware of the concept of "incomplete journeys". If you forget to tap in/out of a station with your travel card you will get charged the maximum fare. To rectify this you are required to manually log in to the TFL website and check for a refund. I find that awkward and time consuming.
I decided to built Oyster Alerts to check for incomplete journeys and thought you might also find it useful.
The site is very much an MVP now but does function and you will be alerted of incomplete fares.
It would be awesome if you could check it out and give any feedback.. http://oysteralerts.com
Thank you