THIS GUY GOT SICK OF UK TRAIN STATIONS HIDING THE PLATFORM NUMBER UNTIL THE LAST SECOND, SO HE VIBE CODED AN APP THAT PREDICTS IT BEFORE THEY REVEAL IT
if youve ever stood in a crowded station like london euston, you know the pain
the platform stays hidden until 15 minutes before boarding, then it flashes up and hundreds of people sprint for the same gate
so he built something that fixes this:
> a clean departures and arrivals app pulling live data straight from the network rail apis
> live train tracking so you can watch where your train actually is on the route and whether its running on time
> the main feature is a predictive engine that guesses your platform before the station reveals it, and its right about 75% of the time
heres how it predicts: every time a train finishes its journey, it logs which platform it actually pulled into and compares that to the platform network rail originally advertised
it saves every one of those comparisons, and over time it builds up enough history to predict the platform with a real confidence score
he built the whole thing with claude, mostly opus with some fable