Boston-area man creates app to help locals find and save the city’s best dive bars

When you’ve seen an uptick in swanky excessive class bars cropping up round Boston space, you’re not alone.

Nick Roy is an area man on a mission to protect the final of an endangered species. An excellent, ol-fashioned dive bar with out the frills. Roy has developed a free mapping software so as to assist Bostonians discover the most effective remaining locations the place they will discover a good draft on faucet and a fairly priced meal.

“Actually the purpose is simply when you’re in Boston, the place’s the closet dive bar? How do I get there the quickest?,” mentioned Roy.

Bostondives.com will direct you to the closest dive bars and probably present some money-saving ideas as properly.

“I believe there’s nonetheless locations to be discovered and that was type of what I needed to spotlight on the map, was not the you already know, right here the the cool foodie dish, however right here’s the native locations which can be nonetheless hanging on and locations we have to help,” mentioned Roy.

Julius Sokol, an area dive bar proprietor, is appreciative of Roy’s reverence for a

“A dive bar is nice as a result of it provides you that neighborhood really feel which you could’t get at loads of locations. You possibly can’t create a dive bar, you both have all the time been a dive bar, otherwise you’re not a dive bar,” mentioned Sokol. “It brings again that feeling earlier than the web, earlier than the cell telephones, if you wish to come to see your pals, you possibly can meet them on the native bar.”

Sokol believes the mapping web site will increase enterprise.

“The mapping app is a superb thought, as a result of it actually helps individuals coming from out of city who actually need that dive bar really feel and to actually perceive what the neighborhood is all about, and loads of occasions dive bars don’t promote,” mentioned Sokol

The web site has been a success. Extra so than Roy anticipated.

“It’s been 8000 people who have used it within the final month, which is 8000 greater than I anticipated,” mentioned Roy. “Folks have been messaging me, I’m coming over from Germany in November, what would you advocate? I used to be like wow, that is really far more than I ever thought it could be.”

Nick Roy says he doesn’t have an actual methodical method to who will get posted — he likes to seek out locations which can be domestically owned and says low cost drinks and unpretentious meals are two massive plusses.

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