LanePoint — iOS Navigation App

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LanePoint is a complete iOS navigation app — turn-by-turn directions, voice guidance, live traffic avoidance, automatic rerouting. It reached TestFlight and was driven on real roads. I stopped because I ran out of funding, not because anything broke.Why it's built this wayWaze and Google Maps are free, and you can't beat them at their own game. Waze's users are its traffic sensors — every new driver makes its data better and costs Waze nothing. A paid app costs money per driver instead. Competing on who spots jams fastest is unwinnable, so LanePoint doesn't try. It's built on three different bets.1. Own the routing engine. LanePoint runs Valhalla — an open-source router — on its own server, built from OpenStreetMap data. Routing therefore costs nothing per request, however many users you have. But the bigger reason is control: when you own the map data you can change it. With Google's API you get whatever route you're handed.2. Fix what every car routing engine gets wrong. They can't see traffic lights. A four-mile road with fifteen red lights gets priced as if you sail through every one — so a light-heavy shortcut beats a road that's genuinely faster, and the arrival time is a fiction. Owning the map data is what makes this fixable. I built and measured a model that counts signalised junctions from OpenStreetMap, converts them into a time cost, and writes it back into the routing data as a reduced daytime speed. On my test corridor it dropped the assumed speed on a signalised highway from 44 to 39 mph and added a minute to a 22-minute trip — an arrival time that contains the lights instead of pretending they aren't there.3. Stay deliberately small. A traffic-avoidance app only works while its users are a small slice of the traffic. Send everybody down the same shortcut and they become the jam. So membership is capped in code — globally and per metro, with a waitlist. It's a real engineering constraint, and it doubles as positioning: a membership service for people who value their time and their privacy, rather than a free app competing with two free apps.What's included~12,000 lines of TypeScript, a Node backend, 258 passing tests that run without a phone or simulator, and ~5,700 lines of documentation — including step-by-step runbooks for standing up the routing server from scratch. Truck routing with height and weight limits is implemented. No ads and no tracking anywhere: trip history stays on the phone.Honest statusNo users, no revenue, never publicly launched. Navigation, voice, map-matching and routing are verified on real roads. The billing system is written and tested but has never processed a real purchase. Traffic avoidance is coded and unit-tested but has never been watched rerouting around an actual jam.Tech: React Native / Expo, TypeScript, Node + Express, Postgres, Valhalla, OpenStreetMap, HERE, Apple Maps.Not included: my Apple Developer account, API keys, hosting, and the user database (real people's accounts — not mine to sell). The buyer uses their own; every setting is documented.Sold strictly as-is. No post-sale support, setup assistance, consulting or maintenance is included or available. The documentation is thorough and written for someone taking this over cold — that's deliberate, because it's all the handover there is. Please factor that in before making an offer.