Resources

Table of Contents

• Books
  • Donation
    • Migrant Workers
    • Textbooks
  • eBooks
• Datasets / APIs
  • Banking / Finance
  • Visualisations
• Education
  • Social / Cultural
• Environment
• Finance / Investing
• Fitness / Exercise
  • Brokers
  • Roboinvestors
• Food
  • Dabao / Takeaway / Group Buys
  • Deals
  • Vegan
  • Halal
  • Misc
• Games
• Giving / Charity
  • Platforms
  • Organisations
  • Misc
• Government
• Housing
• Job Search
• Medicine
• Meetups / Events
• Music
• Neighbourhoods
• Language
• Telcos
  • Software Libraries
• Transport
  • Bus
  • Car / Driving
  • Maps / Navigation
  • Train
  • Taxi
  • Nature
  • Misc
• Volunteering
• Weather
  • Haze
• Misc

Books

Donation

• Books Beyond Borders
• Dignity Mama by Project Dignity - book donation kiosks at NUS, NTFGH, SKH and KTPH
• NLB Book Exchange Corners - found at select public libraries
• Seekabook - subscribers can exchange their read books for other books; exchange of academic books is free

Migrant Workers

• Migrant Library Singapore - welcomes donation of books in Bengali, Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, Malay, Tagalog, Tamil, or Thai
• One Bag One Book - aims to put a book in every worker’s bag

Textbooks

• FairPrice Share-A-Textbook Project
• School Kaki telegram - platform for donating and exchanging used school-related items
• Help a Child – Donate a Book ☠

eBooks

• NLB Mobile App 🏛️ - eBooks, eAudiobooks, eNewspapers, and eMagazines

Datasets / APIs

• ArriveLah - API for bus arrival times
• Data.gov.sg 🏛️
• DataMall by LTA 🏛️
• IRAS APIs 🏛️ - includes tax records
• NRIC Validator
• OneMap APIs 🏛️
• POFMA’ed - records all uses of POFMA
• sg-areas - a Typescript library for planning areas
• Singapore 3R Data - recycling data, e.g. e-waste recyling points

Banking / Finance

• DBS APIs
• OCBC APIs
• PayNow QR Code Generator
• SingaporeBankCodes

Visualisations

• viz.sg

Education

• Kiasu Parents
• SGExams

Social / Cultural

• Race Relations in Singapore by better.sg
• To Be You

Environment

• BYO Bottle SG - initiative to reduce wastage of single-use plastics, particularly drink bottles
• Recycle Go Where? / Recycle Tree - tells you where the nearest recycling facility is
• RecycleNSave - find a reverse vending machine to recycle plastic bottles and aluminium cans
• Recyclopedia.sg - all you need to know when you have something to throw

Finance / Investing

• SGX Investors Portal / CDP Securities
• SGX Securities Prices / Stock Screener
• StocksCafe - track your stocks portfolio, including dividends

Fitness / Exercise

• climbwhere.sg - find climbing gym slots

Brokers

• DBS Vickers
• FSMOne
• Interactive Brokers
• POEMS by PhillipCapital
• Saxo Markets
• StanChart Online Trading
• TD Ameritrade
• Tiger Brokers
• UTrade by UOB Kay Hian

Roboinvestors

• AutoWealth
• Endowus
• Kristal.AI
• MoneyOwl - an NTUC social enterprise
• SquirrelSave
• StashAway
• Syfe

Food

• Amazing Food Race (Singapore Edition)
• Order Kopi Guide
• SG Hawker Bot telegram
• HungryGoWhere ☠ (June 2021)
• IceCreamMap.sg - a map of ice cream places in Singapore created by Li Hongyi

Dabao / Takeaway / Group Buys

• KopiRun

Also see the Food section in the COVID-19 section.

Deals

• SG Food Deals
• SG Kiasu Foodies

Vegan

• abillionveg - food discovery and review platform
• Friendly Vegetarian (FV) Foods - online supermarket

Halal

• MuslimSG android ios - displays halal-certified makan places

Misc

• Dignity Kitchen - hawker stalls run by the differently-abled and disadvantaged

Games

• Ghostlore - an action RPG featuring monsters from SEA folklore
• Heritage Game Jam - an annual affair where people come together to create games about Singpaore’s culture and heritage
• Scan Please! - SafeEntry gantry operator simulator
• TraysTogether - clear trays as the a tray-clearing auntie in a hawker centre
• uWu Adventure - enforce safe distancing as the uWu bird (i.e. the Asian Koel)

Giving / Charity

Platforms

• Gift for Good - in-kind donations platform connecting donors and non-profit organisations
• giving.sg
• Pass It On

Organisations

• The Salvation Army

Misc

• Grant Hunt - chatbot that helps your charity / non-profit / social impact project find available grants
• Singapore Freecycle Network
• Singapore Really Really Free Market (SRRFM) - flea market where everything is free

Government

• CheckFirst 🏛️ - tool for building overnment program eligibility checkers
• onlyfines.me - pay your fines online via AXS e-services

Housing

• CEA Public Register - view all residential property transactions by all property agents in Singapore
• HDB BTO Bookmarklet - conveniently check the price and size of HDB BTO units
• keylocation.sg - condo research tool
• sgp.fyi - an easy way to query Singapore’s public housing transactions; discover long term price trends for HDB units

Job Search

• Good-tier Tech Companies in Singapore
• List of Singapore Tech Internships
• techjobs.sg

Medicine

Resources for medical professionals:

• updatemeprn instagram

Meetups / Events

• Engineers.SG
• LepakInSG
• The List
• WalkAbout Singapore

Music

• VinylWhere - vinyl records search engine

Neighbourhoods

• Rivervale.Town

Language

• Learn Teochew
• Yahya Hamid - Malay language teacher

Telcos

• Circles.Life
• CMLink by China Mobile
• Grid Mobile
• M1
• MyRepublic
• redONE
• Singtel
  • GOMO
• Starhub
  • Giga!
• TPG
• Vivifi
• Zero1
• Zero Mobile ☠ (March 2020)

Software Libraries

• starhub-api

Transport

Bus

• BusRouter SG - see bus stops and routes across Singapore
• NextBus SG

Car / Driving

• Parking.SG - pay for parking with your phone
• roadtaxTracker - renew roadtax in bulk for a fleet of vehicles
• Parkwhere android - carpark rates and availability

Maps / Navigation

• CityMapper
• gothere.sg
• Meet Go Where? - a web app that shows you all the areas you can reach within a certain period of time; also provides a visualisation of the most convenient place for multiple people to meet based on travel time
• One Map
  • One Map 3D

Train

• MRT Map Singapore - interative, up-to-date MRT map
• MRT.SG
  • Geographic Map
  • Schematic Map
  • Mobile-Friendly Map
• RailRouter SG - explore MRT & LRT routes
• SGTrains - Train Enthusiasts in SG

Taxi

• TaxiRouter SG - view available taxis and stands across the island

Nature

• ExploreTrees.sg
• Trees.sg by NParks 🏛️ - map of all trees monitored by NParks

Misc

• Architecture Walks Singapore
• Citizen Adventures
• SchoolPicker.SG - web app that displays schools in Singapore, can filter by level, CCA, etc.
• SingaporeRoadnameOrigins - map of roads colour-coded for langauge of origin
• SGBuses.com - photos and information about all buses in Singapore
• smrt-git - MRT lines visualised in a git commit history
• GoingPlacesSingapore.SG ☠
• Singapore Bitcoin Directory ☠

Volunteering

• bantu - volunteering communities platform

Weather

• NEA
  • MyENV by NEA android ios
  • Weather@SG by MSS android ios ☠ (no longer supported but still appears to be functional)
• checkweather.sg
  • iOS version
• Rain Korkor - a Telegram bot that displays satellite imagery of rain clouds over Singapore
• WhetherReport - assesses accuracy of SG weather forecasts

Haze

• Haze@SG android ios - mobile app displaying the AQI, PSI & PM2.5 readings across Singapore
• Thank you indo for the clean air - a webpage to thank Indonesia for the clean air it continuously sends Singapore
• PSI SG ☠ - a web app that displays PSI readings in Singapore

Misc

• Amateur Radio Exam Notes
• Droplet - rain insurance
• LTAIdentity Font - a reconstruction of the humanistic sans-serif font used in Singapore’s public transport signs and graphics
• Singapore Scam - a list of scams in Singapore