RosterBuster
A crew app for airline pilots and cabin crew: rosters, duties and layovers on the phone
RosterBuster turns an airline roster into a working day: duties, flights, layovers and the crew flying alongside you.
From 2015 to 2017 we worked inside its team as iOS engineers, in two-week sprints, on an app that pilots and cabin crew open every single day.
- Our role
- Embedded iOS engineering
- Engagement period
- 2015–2017
- Platforms
- iPhone
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RosterBuster
Crew schedules change late, often and everywhere. RosterBuster reads the roster straight from the airline system and keeps every duty, briefing and layover in one place, on the phone that is already in the crew's pocket.
What RosterBuster offers
- Roster at a glance: agenda and month views with every flight, duty and day off
- Flight and airport detail: route map, flight time, UTC offsets, distance and live METAR, TAF and NOTAM
- Crew chat: talk to the crew of each flight or start a private conversation
- Friends and meet-ups: see where colleagues are based and when layovers overlap
- Career statistics: block hours, routes, airports and countries, drawn on a world map
- Roster download, website sync and export, so the roster travels wherever the crew needs it
How we worked
RosterBuster already had a product, a growing community and a designer of its own. What it needed was engineering capacity that could ship without slowing anyone else down.
So we worked in two-week sprints, as part of a multidisciplinary team.
A dozen new features came out of those sprints, among them the crew chat module.
Look & Feel
The screens on this page were designed by RosterBuster's own professional designer. Our job was to build them, and to keep them buildable as the team grew.
That is why we introduced MVVM and VIPER as the app's architecture. The point was not the acronyms: it was that every developer joining the team finds clear guidelines on where a new feature goes, instead of inventing a pattern for it.
Contact us
Shall we talk about your project? Email us at hello@irakai.com
We reply within two business days.