for students who've already done the maths on a $108 ticket
the university of newcastle turned parking into a pipeline: scarce spots, tickets that started at $108 and only move one direction, a state debt collector on speed-dial for stragglers — and, by their own audited accounts, $2.92 million a year in fines and fees with zero detail on when or where it's coming from. we're building the community radar that tells you the odds before you park, and the receipts that fill in what they leave out.
free for students, always. student or personal email — either works. one email when we launch — nothing else.
the case
no leaked spreadsheet, no whistleblower — this is what's sitting in the university's own published numbers, and what those numbers conveniently leave out.
campus security issues the tickets. revenue nsw — acting as the university's own collection agent — processes them. and the university's 2025 annual report does disclose a number: $2.92 million booked as "parking fines and fees" last year, sitting quietly in note 3.3 of its audited financial statements.
what it doesn't disclose is anything useful. fines and fees, lumped into one line, for the whole university, for the whole year. no split between what came from a ticket and what came from a permit. no campus, no month, no hour. the total exists — it's just resolution-free. so we're building the resolution ourselves, one submitted ticket at a time.
the city of newcastle council — a separate body, running the streets around campus, not the campus itself — collected $7.42m in parking fines in 2024–25. up from $2.33m in 2022. more than tripled in three years. same city, same trajectory, different bank account.
try it
pick a day and a time. this version runs on placeholder data — we've got zero real reports so far — but it's exactly what the real thing does once yours start coming in.
example risk map — callaghan campus, all days & hours
how it works
no account wall, no ten-screen onboarding. log, spot, learn.
snap the ticket. we record the cost, the time, and the exact bay. ten seconds now saves you the mental maths on what this semester has actually cost you.
see a parking officer doing their rounds? flag it. everyone nearby gets a live heads-up before they walk back out to a windscreen with paper on it.
once you've logged a few, we show you the pattern — which day, which hour, which car park is quietly the most expensive habit you've got.
the rest of the docket
six things the community layer makes possible that a single ticket never could.
sightings decay over time, like a heat trail. check the map, know your odds right now — not just historically.
a running, crowdsourced total of what students have actually paid this year — added up in public, in real time.
feed it your fine history and it tells you the exact day a permit would have paid for itself.
a library of disputes that actually worked — and the excuses that just made it worse.
sightings turn into guidance: arrive after 9:40, the sweep usually clears by then.
track fine-free days. find out if you're actually getting better at this, or just lucky.
the network effect
one ranger sighting helps one person for ten minutes. a few hundred people's sightings turn into a live map. the calculator above gets sharper every single person who starts logging — so send this to whoever you already complain about parking with.
works over text, email, whatever — or we'll just copy the link.
get in early
we launch once enough of you are watching the same car parks. get on the list.
free for students, always. student or personal email — either works. one email when we launch — nothing else.