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Metro Nap NYC: a new app for making sure you don’t miss your stop

This new app from a Dumbo firm senses your location and alerts you when you're getting close to home.

Screenshots of the Metro Nap NYC app. (Via metronapnyc.com)

Do you commute in on the train to work in Manhattan? Do you ever pass out on the way home? A new app from a local company is tuned to make sure you don’t miss your stop.

It doesn’t time it, though, since train schedules can fluctuate. Instead, it uses location data to alert a user when they are approaching their stop.

The app is called Metro Nap NYC.

Download Metro Nap for iOS Download Metro Nap for Android

This is the third client-initiated mobile app for Nabil Mouzannar’s new company, Boullevard Creatives. It’s also his second foray into transit apps. His first was Ride On Time, one of the first to take advantage of the MTA’s real-time location data for subways and buses.

We found a few other related apps working in other cities, though some of them appear to be defunct. Transit Alarm appears to still be going. Boullevard has a bit more of a geographic focus, serving only Metro North and LIRR users for now. Boullevard also plans to extend functionality to Philadelphia soon.

The Metro Nap app was approved by the iOS store fairly quickly, Mouzannar said. It did get sent back once because users needed to be notified that it was tracking their location. Once Boullevard corrected that, it was up in four days.

Mouzannar started the company about six months ago, with two cofounders. Originally from Lebanon, Mouzannar arrived in the U.S. in 1989 to go to college. He got his master’s degree in New York City and stuck around. Without his citizenship, he felt stuck at an insurance company during the first dot-com bubble in 1999. Without a greencard or citizenship, he couldn’t leave his workplace, and he felt like he was missing out on advances in technology.

He didn’t want that to happen again.

Now with citizenship and mobile technology shifting every six months, Mouzannar resolved not to miss out on this latest surge in tech. After 18 years of coding for others and the last few doing management work, most recently at Estee-Lauder, Mouzannar said, “I have all the tools to start my own thing. That was my dream from a long time ago to have my own business.”

Within the next year, the company hopes to make enough from client work that it can afford to build its own beauty app. It may be a sort of digital makeup consultant for women, though that idea may continue to evolve, Mouzannar said. “The whole thing with Boullevard is I want to focus on beauty, technology and beautiful technology,” Mouzanar told us.

Companies: Boullevard Creatives
Series: Brooklyn
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