Meet CurbDay — Beat street sweeping tickets

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CurbDay

Beat street sweeping tickets

What CurbDay does

Every street parker knows the feeling: you glance out the window and the sweeper — or the ticket — is already there. Street sweeping is the single biggest parking citation in America's big cities. Los Angeles wrote roughly 242,000 sweeping tickets at 73 dollars each in just the first half of 2024, and street cleaning is San Francisco's most-issued ticket, more than half of all citations. The rules that trip everyone up are calendar-hostile: 2nd and 4th Tuesday, 8 to 10 AM, opposite side alternates, suspended on some holidays but not others.

CurbDay fixes this from the only source that is always right: the sign on your block. Photograph the sign, tap out its rule in the friendly rule builder — every week, 1st and 3rd Thursdays, seasonal months, whatever your curb demands — and CurbDay turns it into a living schedule that always knows the next time your car has to move. No account, no city database that might be wrong, no location tracking. If a sign exists, CurbDay works — in every city, on every block.

Street parking is a household sport. Each car gets a name and a color, gets parked at a saved spot with one tap, and gets its own reminders — the night before and again in the morning, so I'll-move-it-later actually happens.

Holiday coming up? CurbDay ships holiday calendars for major cities and flags days when sweeping is often suspended — clearly marked verify-before-you-trust, because cities change enforcement without warning and a wrong guess costs real money.

And when a ticket does slip through, the ticket log keeps the citation, the fine, and — most importantly — the contest deadline, with a countdown so the appeal never dies in your glovebox. Track outcomes and watch your yearly ticket total shrink.

CurbDay is built for renters, roommates, and multi-car households who pay the street-parking tax every week. Deliberately simple, deliberately offline, and a little bit fun.

• Photograph any sweeping sign and encode its exact rule • Recurrence engine that speaks curb: 2nd and 4th weekdays, alternating sides, seasonal months • Night-before and morning-of reminders per car • Curb calendar showing every upcoming sweep window at a glance • Multiple cars and saved spots for street-parking households • Holiday suspension calendars with honest verify-first flags • Ticket log with contest deadlines, countdowns, and outcomes • Fully offline: no account, no tracking, no city data to be wrong

A look inside

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What's inside

• Sign Encoder — Photograph the sweeping sign on your block and tap out its exact rule — weekday, 1st/2nd/3rd/4th ordinals or every week, time window, street side, active months — with a live plain-English preview and the next three computed dates.
• Curb Calendar & Reminders — A month view with every sweep window across all spots, plus per-car local notifications the night before and the morning of, computed entirely offline by the recurrence engine.
• Car Garage — Every household car gets a name, color, and plate; park it at a saved spot and side with one tap so reminders always chase the right vehicle.
• Holiday Suspension Packs — Bundled holiday calendars for major sweeping cities flag days when enforcement is often suspended — always labeled as verify-with-your-city, never asserted as authoritative — with optional reminder skips.
• Ticket Log — Log every citation with its fine, city, and contest deadline; a countdown badge keeps the appeal alive, and outcome tracking shows what you contested, won, and paid across the year.

Why we built it

Street-sweeping tickets are the largest single citation category in big US cities (LA: ~242,000 tickets at $73 each in H1 2024 alone), the rules are calendar-hostile (2nd & 4th weekday, alternating sides, holiday suspensions), and every incumbent app depends on fragile crowdsourced or city-published data that is wrong…

What makes it different

Unlike SpotAngels (crowdsourced map data that is wrong or absent outside covered metros, requires an account and always-on location or Bluetooth), Sweep Alarm (built on SF's published schedule; its own reviewers report inaccurate dates), and Beat the Sweep (cloud-AI sign reading with account sync, reminder-only), Curb…

Who it's for

Anyone who values a small, sharp, single-purpose tool that does one job well and stays out of the way.

In one line: Beat street sweeping tickets

Try it

See the Beat street sweeping tickets for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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