Hi everyone,

This is a brief post to let you know that we have taken the tough decision to wrap up the Crowdless project.

In February 2020, we were building a product to help people navigate safely in conflict and crime-affected areas. When the pandemic hit, we realised our plans were no longer viable. We built Crowdless, a simple way to see how busy your local supermarket is. Crowdless scaled to >100,000 downloads, and was used in >10 countries. Our users told us it gives them piece of mind and comfort during the pandemic before they venture out for shopping.

Crowdless received support from volunteers from all around the world. We’d like to thank all the people who gave up their time pro bono to provide advice on usability, work on design, community management, marketing and engineering. It was a true privilege to be a part of this community and they were the core reason for Crowdless’s success. Support from Innovate UK, the European Space Agency, Oxford Foundry and LSE Generate also helped to make this possible.We know that the pandemic isn’t over, and there are still plenty of challenges with social distancing. We’re pleased to see that governments and businesses are taking great steps to help people manage these challenges. We’ve also seen big improvements from Google and other tech companies that are doing more to help keep people informed about crowd levels.
Moving forward, Lanterne is focusing its efforts on kickstarting the post-pandemic economy by helping people move through cities efficiently and sustainably. We’re working with micromobility companies to help them deliver just-in-time mobility services which decarbonize transport and support sustainability.

Again, our sincere thanks to everyone who helped to build Crowdless and make it such a useful service. If you are interested, we would love for you to continue to follow the Lanterne journey on our next chapter!

All the best,

Lanterne team