Dead battery
A jump start to get you going. Base 35 KM.
Bosnia and Herzegovina · prices in KM
Someone's always got your back.
Roadie is a roadside assistance app that connects a driver whose car has stopped with the nearest person who can actually help — a recovery operator, or a neighbour with jump leads.
- 4kinds of trouble
- 90%of the fare to the helper
- 4languages, bs · en · de · it
The idea
The nearest help is rarely a call centre.
A tow company is forty minutes away and charges for all forty. The man two streets over has jump leads in his boot and would be there in six.
Roadie asks everyone nearby at once, shows you who is coming and what it costs, and keeps the price agreed before anyone moves.
What it costs
No call, no haggling, no meter.
Pick what happened and how far away help is. This is the app's own pricing engine, running on the real Bosnian tariff — the same numbers the app quotes on the hard shoulder.
km
km
Between 22:00 and 06:00
Agreed before anyone moves
33 – 42 KM
The helper keeps 35 KM of it. Roadie's cut is 10%, and never touches the fuel — the helper is fetching it, not selling it.
Tariffs are business configuration, not code: they come from the server with each quote, so a price can change without shipping an app — and the phone is never the authority on money.
How it works
Teal goes out. Amber comes back.
That is the whole app, and it is the whole visual language too. Teal is your signal leaving. Hazard amber is the light that answers.
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01
Say what happened
Four buttons, no forms. Your position is already on the map; you can drag it if you rolled to a better spot.
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02
Everyone near you is asked at once
Not one company — every helper in range, at the same time. If nobody answers, the circle widens on its own until somebody does.
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03
You pick who comes
Offers arrive with a name, a rating, a distance and a price you have already seen. You choose. Nothing is dispatched over your head.
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04
You watch them arrive
Live on the map, with a real ETA. While you wait, the app tells you how to stand safely — the longest, most dangerous part of a breakdown is the waiting.
Roadside safety
The waiting screen used to be a pulse animation.
It is now the most useful thing on the phone. From the moment you ask for help until someone is actually on scene, Roadie shows two cards.
Keep yourself safe
Universal, never folded away.
- Hazard lights on, now
- High-visibility vest before you open the door
- Warning triangle at the regulation distance
- Stand behind the barrier, never between car and traffic
Don't make it worse
Specific to your fault, folded until you want it.
No strings that need a diagnosis. Nothing red. It disappears the moment your helper arrives — there is now a person on scene who reads the road better than an app does.
What no single call-out knows
Roadie remembers the third time.
Because every rescue is in one place, the app can see the pattern a tow driver never could — and it says so, plainly, on the screen where you pick the fault.
It states a fact and the commonest explanation. It never diagnoses, never blocks the request, and carries no button to press.
Your battery has died 3 times in 41 days. A jump start will get you moving, but this one is unlikely to be the last — worth having the battery and alternator checked.
Four kinds of trouble
Most of them are not a tow.
Three of the four are twenty minutes and a pair of hands. Roadie exists because sending a flatbed to a flat battery is how roadside help became expensive.
Flat tyre
Swap to your spare, or a plug and inflate. Base 43 KM.
Out of fuel
Enough to reach a station. Base 31 KM, fuel at cost.
Needs a tow
Loaded up and taken where you need. Base 88 KM.
Become a helper
You keep nine of every ten marks.
Whether you run a recovery business or simply keep good jump leads in the boot, you go on duty when it suits you and see paid work near you.
- 90% of the fare is yours. Roadie's cut is a flat 10%.
- Fuel is never commissioned. You are reimbursed at cost — you are fetching it, not selling it.
- You see the money before you accept. Every offer shows what you take home, not what the customer pays.
- Invite someone, keep earning. Referrers take 2 points out of Roadie's own 10 — never out of the helper's pocket.
- Duty is a switch. Off means off. Nothing pings you on a Sunday you didn't ask for.
Where Roadie works
Built for these roads first.
Roadie launches in Bosnia and Herzegovina, priced in convertible marks, in Bosnian, English, German and Italian — because the people driving these roads are not all from here.
- Sarajevo
- Banja Luka
- Tuzla
- Zenica
- Mostar
- The M-17, the M-5 and the mountain passes between them
Bosanski
English
Deutsch
Italiano
Straight answers
The things people actually ask.
Is the price really fixed before anyone comes?
Yes. You see a range before you ask, and an exact figure on the offer you accept. The distance and the time of day are already in it. Nothing is added afterwards except fuel you asked to be delivered, which is charged at the pump price on its own line.
Who are the helpers?
Recovery operators and ordinary drivers, both. Everyone signs in with a real phone number, and helpers can go through an identity check that puts a verified shield on their profile. You see a name, a rating and a distance before you choose.
What if nobody answers?
The search widens on its own until someone does, and the app tells you it is widening rather than spinning silently. You can cancel at any point before a helper accepts, at no charge.
What does night cost?
A flat 24 KM between 22:00 and 06:00 — the same figure whatever the fault, and shown as its own line so you can see exactly what it is.
How do I pay?
Cash to the helper, or in the app. Either way the fare is the same one you agreed, and the helper's 90% is the same 90%.
Is it available on the App Store yet?
Roadie is in beta on TestFlight while the last of the paperwork and the SMS provider are settled. Ask for an invite below and you get a build today.
Get Roadie
Put it on the phone
before you need it.
The one app you hope stays closed. Roadie is on TestFlight now, in Bosnian, English, German and Italian.
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