Lars Sjögren
Founder · 1 product on SaaS Hive
I build small, useful web apps in my spare time — tools I wish existed. My main project is ParkSpot, a free, smart web app that helps people in Stockholm find free street parking. No sign-ups, no fees, just a simple map showing where you can park without paying. By day I work in B2B software sales with a key account background, so I care about solving real problems simply — not adding features for their own sake.
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ParkSpot — a parking app that tells you when a spot just became legal, not just where the cheap meters are
I built this because my wife kept getting stressed hunting for legal parking in Stockholm, and the idea just kept growing from there.ParkSpot shows two things on a live map: Nu (what's legal right now) and Natt (what's safe until tomorrow morning) — pulled straight from Stockholm's open data on street cleaning schedules and parking restrictions, no manual curation.A few things I haven't seen other parking apps do:Streets that just finished their cleaning get a distinct highlight — genuinely freshly-legal spots, not just "technically not illegal."Tap a result and it hands off straight to Google Maps for driving directions — most apps stop at "here's a legal spot" and leave you to figure out the rest.No login, no ads, free.What I'm actually trying to figure out right now isn't the business model — it's whether this solves a problem worth solving. Stockholm has started using AI-equipped scan cars checking something like 5,000 parked cars an hour for violations, and it makes me wonder if a tool like this could mean fewer fines for drivers and less enforcement load for the city, not just a convenience feature.Parkspot Stockholm— no signup needed to try it. Curious what people here think, especially if you've built anything that has to compete with "just wing it" as the default behavior. Note: it only covers Stockholm, Sweden right now — if you're testing from elsewhere, zoom/pan the map to Stockholm first to see it actually working.
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Hey everyone! I’m Lars from Stockholm. By day I do B2B software sales, by night I build small web apps. My current project is ParkSpot — a free app that visualizes Stockholm’s parking rules in real time. The clever part: it shows recently finished and upcoming street cleaning, so you can spot the hidden gems where streets are empty. Glad to be here and swap notes on building and shipping.