CurbStack

What is the curb economy? Parking! Public Transportation! Uber + Lyft pick up & drop offs! Scooters! Street vendors & artists! Public ads! It all happens at the curb. Let's build it together :)

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Inspiration

Hypothesis #1: Transportation systems should be built for citizenship to facilitate physical and social mobility, not only as a consumer conveniences, as is currently the case, but as a public good; as a result, the wealth generated through the roll-out of next-gen systems/marketplaces should be built from the ground-up with equitable community re-investment mechanisms in mind, not only as an afterthought and mitigation strategy when cities push back (as is the case with uber/google/etc).

Hypothesis #2: It is only the beginning of the curb. Autonomous vehicle drop offs, last-mile systems data sharing and location hardening, auto-enforcement of parking, flying drone lanes....it's all coming. We must value the curb more.

Hypothesis #3: Instead of cities being reactive to the future, they should have a seat at the table and help to build it. We need a new generation of companies, Equitable Public-Private Entities (EPPEs), to help bring this about, Curbstack aims to help spearhead this movement. We may grow a little slower, but part of equity generated should stay in the communities for re-investment at the local level.

Hypothesis #4: Cities need partners, such as CurbStack, to help them in providing the best experience possible to their citizens.

What it does

My vision for CurbStack is to create a next-gen technology suite that can help municipalities to manage and profit from city resources such as parking, sidewalks, public ad space, etc and provide readily available APIs/legal/pricing models for vendors to plug into the city tech ecosystem.

Demo Links

Offline to online commerce & public ads demo We can turn any offline surface into an online AR portal. Play dynamic videos for billboards, add checkout now buttons to bench ads, etc.

Pay-On-Plate demo We don't need smart meters if we can make smart-license plates for free! A Prototype of what could be possible for the future of pay for parking. Interface could be put on existing meters, car dashboard, etc....I used a license plate for ease of development/demo.

How I built it

I built it using swift, arkit, scnekit, and mlkit. It is a native iOS app that runs on the edge.

Challenges I ran into

I never programmed in swift prior to this week. Monster learning curve.

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