AppyParking will give you hours of your life back

He ended up trawling through the databases of 33 different boroughs, before drawing in the zones on his app. "I was going out on the streets, looking on Google Street View, compiling this database. I did 13 boroughs to start with. I met Enric then, my co-founder, and he put all these zones into an app called Yellow Line Parking."

Yellow Line Parking became AppyParking, and new features were added as Hubert found more ways that drivers' lives could be made easier – pointing them to everything from disabled bays to motorbike parking and electric vehicle charge points. The app's already won an award from Ford for helping to relieve congestion – "We can stop cars aimlessly driving around residential zones looking for parking," Hubert says – and now it's been accepted onto the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator program for nurturing start-ups.

"In the week that we've been on it, it's already been immensely useful," says Hubert. "We're surrounded by industry gurus and leaders and mentors, and other start-ups going through the growing pains of a teenager – working out everything from who our customer is to user experience."

Hopefully AppyParking has a long road ahead of it – we'd like to see it expand to other cities and make some more drivers 'appy.

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