Comments on: BusBus – City Bus Routes (for Chennai, Mumbai and Bangalore)

By: udhaya

udhaya — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:18:22 +0000

Routes offers information regarding directions, public transport timings, seat availability and more. And best of all, it’s FREE. Call our toll free number to plan your travel. 1800 102 0406.

By: And now, Bangalore Bus Route Information on your Mobile [sans GPRS] | G for Gadgets

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:57:38 +0000

[...] get bus route information on mobile sans GPRS connections! We earlier covered a few services like busbus, nearhop etc, but our friends from M4Mum (read our earlier coverage of M4Mum) have launched their [...]

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:00:59 +0000

Hi,

I wonder who the target audience for this site is. How many people who use the internet travel by bus, or vice versa? However, understand the utilitarian value of it, but cant sustain without a supporting revenue model.

Best

By: Unmesh

Unmesh — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:26:21 +0000

Good work guys. Couple of things I came across while on your site:
1. the “City Select” could be placed next to your start/end boxes instead of at the top-right.
2. the searches can be better – my start/end selections got mixed up (see: http://shrinkd.com/images/busbus.jpg)
3. Good use of “static images” of google maps for showing bus routes.
4. I agree with @shivaas about tying up with local authorities. You dont want to be responsible for making updates to route changes, etc.

Good Luck.

By: Rao L

Rao L — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 17:49:12 +0000

IBM has developed a new protocol — Hyperspeech Transfer Protocol (HSTP) — which is similar to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

“India now has over 360 million cell phone subscribers. Last month we added 15 million,” he said pointing out that the research technology targets ordinary mobile phone users, all of whom may not be literate.

By: sameer guglani

sameer guglani — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:00:38 +0000

Excellent initiative. When I lived in California, I used the local information website regularly to plan my bus travel. Great to see it happening in India, it will increase the bus commute.

Suggestion: Also add the local train routes for Delhi / Mumbai.

By: Sriram

Sriram — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:10:17 +0000

Great website. Simple and just works. Thanks for covering it.

>>however there are couple of features missing
>>in the current avatar – significant ones being
>>bus timings and frequency of arrival/departure.

You are kidding right? Do you think anyone in Mumbai/Chennai/Bangalore would know these things? Do you think the bus driver knows? This calls for prediction markets.

By: rskommu

rskommu — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:32:33 +0000

while it is a website of decent utility – not sure of the revenue model of this website?

By: shivaas

shivaas — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:52:21 +0000

One idea for this startup – Why not tie up with local bus authorities, or even pvt. operators, for installing GPS systems on all buses and then providing real time data about bus movement and timings. This can then be tied up to an SMS based query system, where you send in the bus number or bus stop, and get the next bus arriving there. This would actually create a really valuable system, and I see a huge potential for this in a populated country like India!

By: BusBus.in - bus routes in India - Indian Domain Names Forum

BusBus.in - bus routes in India - Indian Domain Names Forum — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:16:07 +0000

[...] BusBus.in offers details of bus routes in Chennai, Mumbai and Bangalore (I read about this site on PluGGd.in). As I imagine some people will view these bus route details while they’re on the go, I think a [...]

By: Rahul Rao

Rahul Rao — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:17:05 +0000

Nice. I tried out a few searches and it provides really useful info. I just bookmarked this site.