Operating of an office highest over Highway Path, a small grouping of Portlanders features invested the final year quietly strengthening what can function as the nation’s really bold bike-certain app organization.

Funded out-of-pocket because of the about three co-creators and you can provided from the lead creator of your own Xbox 360, the latest ten-person team calling by itself Project 529 hit the Internet history few days with a web and you will mobile software that aspires is a beneficial next-age bracket Stolen Bike Registry with a practices-grabbing petition asking ebay and you may Craigslist to start demanding serial quantity with the cycles they offer.

J Allard, their ballcap-clad President, says the business will make “the brand new eHarmony off tracks,” coordinating cyclists to their primary backyard adventures. Otherwise it could tune maintenance reminders and physical fitness habits, to be to help you “the conventional Joes” what Allard states this new half dozen-year-old Strava happens to be having “the huge benefits.” Or it may become a digital toolkit to possess bicycle shops you to need to up-date their characteristics to take on on the internet discounters.

“We’re considering long-title,” Allard told you from inside the an interview Wednesday. (more…)