Bianca Phillips at the Memphis Flyer:
The app is not only free for users to download, it was also free to the city. Ashley Mooney of local Geospace LLC, the app’s creator, offered to create and run the app for free after he was stuck in traffic on Highway 51 during the 2011 flood. He said, at the time, that he wished there was some way to access city information, such as announcements about street closures, in app form. A few months later, Wharton was a guest on the Drake & Zeke radio show on Rock 103, and Mooney called in with an offer to create the app. The city followed up with Mooney and the app was born.
“It’s free to the city. I just wanted to make a difference,” said Mooney.