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Last updated: 2026-05-27

For journalists, student newspapers, university communications teams and anyone covering RHUL Mobile.

Press contact

Hasseeb Hussain, founder. rhulmobile@shack.solutions. I aim to reply within a working day for press enquiries.

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RHUL Mobile is the unofficial Royal Holloway campus app, built and run by a Royal Holloway, University of London Computer Science student. It provides live 441 and RHU shuttle bus times, live laundry machine availability across every residence hall, an interactive campus map with walking directions, an events and societies calendar, a student marketplace, food outlet hours, and deals from local Egham businesses. The app is free on iOS and Android. It is independent of the university and the Students' Union.

Short version (under 60 words):

RHUL Mobile is the free campus app for Royal Holloway, University of London students. Built and run by a Royal Holloway Computer Science student, it covers live bus times, laundry availability, the campus map and the SU events calendar. Free on iOS and Android. Independent of the university.

Key facts

  • Founded: 2020, in the founder's first year at Royal Holloway.
  • Founder and developer: Hasseeb Hussain (Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London).
  • Company: Shacksolutions Ltd.
  • Platforms: native iOS and Android.
  • Downloads: over 7,000 across Royal Holloway.
  • App Store rating: 5.0 stars on the UK App Store.
  • Price: free to use. No ads, no subscription. Optional in-app purchases (e.g. marketplace bump credits).
  • Funding: covered by paid listings from local Egham businesses in the Deals tab.
  • Independent: not affiliated with Royal Holloway, University of London or the Students' Union.

Founder bio

Hasseeb Hussain is the founder and sole developer of RHUL Mobile. He started building the app in his first year of Computer Science at Royal Holloway, University of London after standing at Founder's Square in the rain reading a paper bus timetable. He runs the app through his company, Shacksolutions Ltd. Contact him at rhulmobile@shack.solutions or on LinkedIn.

Screenshots and assets

All assets are available on request. For most coverage you will want the homepage screenshot (the three phone mockups on the front page), the per-feature mockups (bus times, laundry, campus map, marketplace, events), and the app icon. Email for high-resolution versions or a packaged kit.

  • App icon: PNG, 512x512 and 96x96. /app-icon.png, /app-icon-sm.png.
  • Open Graph card: 1200x630 PNG. /og.png.
  • Feature mockups: PNG and WebP at /phone-mockup-<feature>.png for each feature (bus-times, laundry, campus-map, marketplace, events, deals, news, societies, sport, food-outlets).

Suggested story angles

  • Student-built campus tech that has outgrown the official institutional app on review count and active use.
  • What it takes to maintain an indie consumer app as a single developer alongside university.
  • Public APIs in practice: live bus operator feeds and live laundry data turned into a daily-use student utility.
  • The economics of a free student app funded entirely by local-business listings.
  • Why a 135-acre campus needed a better map than the static PDFs on the intranet.
  • Independent campus apps as a pattern across UK universities, not just Royal Holloway.

For Royal Holloway communications

If you work in Royal Holloway, University of London communications or a Students' Union team and want to verify, link, or collaborate, please email rhulmobile@shack.solutions. The app explicitly does not present itself as an official Royal Holloway product, and we are happy to make any clarifying changes to copy or imagery if needed.