Built because we needed it.

BarkBus started as the in-house app for our own pack school, running two vans out of Central Otago.

The status quo was the same as everywhere else in the industry: a printed sheet, a WhatsApp group, a spreadsheet that nobody trusts, and an owner phoning at 8:01am wondering why the van isn't outside. The team built BarkBus to make a morning run quiet — drivers know who's next, owners get a ping the second their dog is on board, and billing catches itself up without a Sunday-night reckoning.

After a year of using it ourselves, other pack-school owners started asking for it. So now it's a product.

Who's behind it

Tim McEwan — software engineer, dog person, and co-owner of the pack school behind it all. Builds BarkBus in the evenings; uses it every morning.

What we're not

We're not trying to be a giant SaaS platform. We're trying to make the morning run easier for ten or twenty pack schools that look a lot like ours. If that's you, we'd love to chat.

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