Bus New York City: Last Release 2019-09-27
CloneChart flags Bus New York City as a stale-release research candidate from public metadata: 4.6 stars from 1,438 ratings in Travel, published by Electric Labs Ltd. Release age does not establish why development slowed or whether current demand exists.
App Store Metadata Snapshot
What It Did
** NEW ** Realtime Subway Departures powered by MTA Subway Time- just $0.99 as an in-app-add-on! BUS NYC IS THE MOST FEATURE RICH NEW YORK CITY BUS APP AVAILABLE, ENHANCED WITH MTA BUS TIME. *** Winner at the MTA AT&T App Quest Awards! *** Features: ################## * Find out when the next buses are scheduled to arrive. * With MTA Bus Time®, we can give you live departure info and bus positions for all MTA buses in New York. * **NEW** Realtime Subway departures for the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, L and S (42 St Shuttle), all for just $0.99! More realtime routes will be added as they become a…
What the Data Can. And Cannot: Show
The release and rating fields are useful screening signals. They are not evidence about a developer's motives, active users, revenue, or current search demand.
Release Recency
The latest release date in CloneChart's record is 2019-09-27. Verify the live App Store listing before relying on it.
Aggregate Rating
The stored listing reports 4.6 stars from 1,438 ratings. That total is cumulative, not a measure of recent activity.
Listing Context
The record identifies Travel as the category and Electric Labs Ltd as the developer. It does not prove present availability in every storefront.
Maintenance Context Is Unknown
Public listing metadata does not explain release decisions. CloneChart does not infer abandonment, a broken app, or an addressable audience from release age alone.
What a Builder Can Evaluate Next
Available Signals
Rating history, release age, category, listing copy, and screenshots can help frame product research. None of those fields alone proves demand or commercial viability.
Recorded Ratings
Aggregate Rating
Estimated Build Days
Hypotheses to Validate
Treat these generated analysis notes as research prompts. Check them against the current product and recent primary-source user feedback.
- > Limited offline functionality for users without data access
- > In-app purchase complexities can confuse users
- > Occasional inaccuracies with bus arrival times
The Clone Prompt
Use this as a planning draft in your coding tool of choice. CloneChart estimates MEDIUM complexity and ~14 build days; both depend on scope and require validation.
Cursor plan preview for Bus New York City: map the core Travel workflow, choose the smallest differentiated feature set, define the data and monetization boundaries, then prototype the riskiest user journey first.This preview is public. The full Cursor prompt is returned only after mailbox verification.
Suggested Starting Stack
A generated starting point for technical evaluation, not a claim about the original app's implementation.
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Bus New York City is one of 278 candidates selected from stored release-date and rating thresholds. The label is a discovery filter, not a claim that an app was abandoned or that an opportunity is proven.
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