Made by two Sydneycommuters who gotsick of guessing.
Platform is a free Sydney transport app. Trains, metro, buses, ferries and light rail share one map, and every time says whether it’s live, predicted or straight from the timetable. We built it because the apps we had couldn’t tell us whether the next train at Town Hall was really coming.
What bugged us,
and what Platform does instead.
A time on the screen, and no way to tell whether it was live.
Live times carry the live icon ; timetable times don’t.
Paying a subscription for data Transport for NSW publishes for free.
Platform is free. We don’t run ads, and you never have to sign up.
Little annoyances on our own trips that nobody seemed to fix.
We fix them as we hit them, and every beta gets ridden on real trips before it goes out.
How Platform is run
- Advertising
- None
- Payments
- None
- Account
- Not needed
- Operator
- Immanuel Lam, Sydney. Non-commercial.
- Transport for NSW
- Independent. Not made, endorsed or operated by TfNSW.
- Transit data
- © Transport for NSW, CC BY 4.0
Where Platform
is up to.
- For years
Fed up on the commute
Half the time we could not tell whether a time was live or just the timetable.
- 2026
Immanuel starts Platform
Building began at an OpenAI Codex event, with one rule: if a time isn’t live, Platform says so.
- Later
Hunter joins as co-founder
Hunter Balderson joined to bring Platform to Android.
- Now
iPhone app and Android beta
Now on the App Store for iPhone, and by invitation on Android.
- Next
Public release
After we have tested Platform on real journeys.
Follow along
We post progress on LinkedIn. The iPhone app and Android beta are on the home page, and if something’s wrong or missing, email admin@platformtransit.com.