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24 alternatives to The Northern Fail app
An app built by a very angry Northern Rail customer
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Northern Fail app launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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North▲461Discover, remember, and share great places with friends
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all! My train the other day was delayed and I got curious where they all were at any given time, so I built a map and figured I'd share it.
2023 · trains.fyi · its alternatives →
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Railway▲405Hacked together a service in Go https://github.com/xlab/cdn-s3-go that routes content request to any arbitrary S3-compatible bucket. Some infra providers are offering free egress, but buckets are only private (hello Railway), and not geo-distributed. An L4 balancer will cost a fortune (hello Cloudflare). cdn-s3-go solves this by looking up objects, generating a pre-signed URLs and redirecting the clients directly. Free egress, cheap public geo-distributed CDN!
2021 · railway.com · its alternatives →
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Loop▲86Chicago's best transit app for commuters, students, tourists
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Beonrails▲69A web app to make and send proposals and contracts online.
2020 · beonrails.com · its alternatives →
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DaysAround▲302Track every country you've ever been to. Privately.
Jan 2026 · getflags.app · its alternatives →
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Lines App▲74Ski and snowboarding app that gamifies the sport.
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Trainly UK▲84A lightweight application for tracking Great British trains
2023 · trainly.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Make sure the trains arrive on time!
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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EmptyChair▲64The UK's best timetable for experiences, workshops & classes
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I previously made a web version of The Weekendest, but when I was laid off from my last job, I decided to take the free time I had to pick up Swift UI, and made a native iOS version of it. The main draw of the app is that the map is dynamically generated based on the current subway routing, so when you open the app on weekends or overnight, you'll see lines correspond to where the trains are actually running, which is a very unique NYC problem. Let me know what you think!
2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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