Freddy Feed Puts Fredericton’s Live City Data in One Installable App

Freddy Feed is the kind of local product people actually leave open on a phone home screen: one place for Fredericton’s weather, Wolastoq river levels, air quality, transit, events, regulated gas prices, recycling, school alerts, downtown notices, and emergency-department waits — with live webcams for good measure. Builder Yash Pandya launched it as a free, ad-free side project (“Made in Fredericton, for Fredericton. No ads, no account.”) and has since shipped sister dashboards for Moncton and Saint John.

A civic dashboard you can install

The product is a progressive web app: open freddyfeed.ca, hit Install App, and it behaves like a native bookmark without an App Store or Play listing. Pandya’s launch note on LinkedIn lists a familiar modern stack — Next.js, shadcn/ui, Tailwind CSS, Vercel — and the site’s own schema credits him as author with that same LinkedIn profile. There is no public GitHub repo for the product today; the live apps are the footprint.

Sections on the Fredericton feed pull from practical sources named in the footer (Environment Canada and Open-Meteo for weather, City of Fredericton and GNB feeds for local news and services, GNB Health System for ED waits, NB 511 for roads, and more). The pitch is aggregation, not another login wall.

Local restaurants on the same screen

Pandya also advises local restaurants, and that hospitality lens shows up in the product. Freddy Feed carries sponsored neighbourhood spots — including The Joyce and Maxwell’s Steak & Seafood — alongside an open “Your business” pitch for other local operators, with sponsorship inquiries pointed at feedback@freddyfeed.ca. Weekly retail flyers sit in the same Essentials strip as gas and recycling, so hospitality and errands share the civic scroll instead of living in separate apps.

Three cities, one builder

What started as a Fredericton daily driver now has working twins: Moncton Feed and Saint John Feed. Commenters on the LinkedIn launch thread were already asking about expansion; the answer is on the footer of each site. Pandya keeps a Buy Me a Coffee link for voluntary support.

For a province that often equates “startup” with cybersecurity or industrial software, Freddy Feed is a different Fredericton bet — indie civic tech that earns its keep by being useful before breakfast. Try the install prompt on freddyfeed.ca, or follow Pandya on LinkedIn for updates.

Sources

• Freddy Feed — live Fredericton civic dashboard (PWA install; restaurant sponsorships; built by Yash Pandya)
• Moncton Feed — sister civic dashboard for Moncton
• Saint John Feed — sister civic dashboard for Saint John
• Yash Pandya on LinkedIn — founder profile linked from the product schema
• Freddy Feed launch post — LinkedIn announcement (free/no-account positioning; Next.js / shadcn / Tailwind / Vercel stack)
• Buy Me a Coffee — yashpandya — voluntary support link from the product footer