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NearToilets – Airbnb of toilets, earn from toilets for rent
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- soelost 1y agoAs someone with IBS whose considered building this many times. Well done!
- tdeck 1y agoIs there actually a rental system? I only see public toilets on the website.
- daft_pink 1y agoThis new app is the sh*t.
- dawnerd 1y agoTrying it here and it is showing toilets inside of the public school that you can’t just stroll into. I’m not sure how the data is gathered, but that’s just wrong. Those are not public use at all. I gave it my exact location and hit emergency and it put me pretty far from my actual gps. Was this just a vibe coded project? Sure seems like it. There’s existing apps like this though: https://www.loofind.com/ https://www.loofind.com/ https://www.toiletcodes.com/en https://www.toiletcodes.com/en https://toiletfinder.net/ https://toiletfinder.net/ https://www.toiletmap.org.uk/ https://www.toiletmap.org.uk/ https://toilet.place/ https://toilet.place/
- kerpal 1y agoThat's always the issue with these directory indexer services which try to scrape lots of data. The quality is always questionable. If users actually adopt it you can have them report or fix the data based on consensus but users won't even bother if they find 1/3 of your listings are complete junk and your platform actually wastes time.
- amelius 1y agoAre you sure that it is physically impossible to access those toilets? Someone might have added them after a visit, not caring if it is actually allowed.
- skeezyboy 1y agoeither way, the data is crap
- HarHarVeryFunny 1y agoSchool or college? Many colleges around me in NJ don't ask for ID - I used to often go work in the library, use cafe, etc.
- esskay 1y agoYep my closest one (despite being on the edge of a major city) shows as 8 miles away, in the middle of a field. When I open it up on Google maps its a derelict barn in the middle of private land with no roads. Meanwhile I can literally see a public toilet from the front door of my house in an outdoor shopping area over the other side of the road, and that's not on the map despite it existing there for at least 50 years.
- lagniappe 1y agoI might be a country bumpkin but you can pee on a barn just fine, it's the fences you want to watch out for.
- EGreg 1y agoIn France I heard they had toilets that you had to pay to keep the door from opening. A real “captive audience” and “impulse buy” if I do say so. In general, owning a gas station on a highway is far more profitable than owning it on a street.
- LtdJorge 1y agoNo, it’s just that you pay for the system, and the lock engages after you’ve paid. It’s not supposed to be used for free, but you can if you hold the door yourself, although I believe the electric system doesn’t turn on (including lighting).
- komali2 1y agoIf you shit fast enough and in the dark, you get to shit for free. Speedrunning shit. Losers get to have someone see them poop. Randomly recalls to me a core memory: adolescent me at my buddy's house. Fat nerd, anxious about everything. My buddy's older brother was playing warcraft 3 with us and I thought he was such a cool guy, he wore jean jackets always covered in paint. We finished a match and both said at the same time, "I gotta take a shit!" He said, "race you!" and ran to the closest bathroom, and I was relieved because the lock was broken on that one and I was super anxious to poop when someone might walk in, so I was happy to use the upstairs bathroom instead. I warned him that the lock was broken. "So what?" he said. "Well, what if someone walks in on you while your pooping?" I asked. He replied, "I'll say, 'Get out of here, I'm pooping!'" I learned to actually think about my worries. My anxiety was ill defined - someone might walk in on me pooping! But in reality, that's just the whole ordeal, someone walks in and then leaves, you won't explode and die about it.
- LtdJorge 1y agoActually nice conclusion
- 1970-01-01 1y agoWhat was once satire is now reality: https://theonion.com/new-e-toilet-to-revolutionize-online-shitting-1819565332/ https://theonion.com/new-e-toilet-to-revolutionize-online-sh...
- amelius 1y agoFinally our smartphones can fulfill one of our most basic needs.
- parpfish 1y agoI remember lolling when the razor companies ACTUALLY went to five blades https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036/ https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-...
- Joker_vD 1y agoThe first blade shaves clean, the seconds shaves even cleaner... the 27th blade is polishing the jawbone.
- googlryas 1y agoiToilet, an app which directs you to the nearest decent toilet any where in the world, was also how Costanza made his millions(before losing it to madoff) in the seinfeld reboot that happened within the Curb Your Enthusiasm universe
- CjHuber 1y agoJust walk into a restaurant an ask nicely?
- amelius 1y agoI did this once in Paris and they told me to pay 2 euros.
- komali2 1y agoI was genuinely shocked to follow signs to a WC in a Brussels train station and find a pay toilet. Stupid thing wouldn't take my CC so when nature calls... I stepped outside the station and was hit with a slap of piss stink. Makes sense! Added my own, what else am I to do? I loved my time in Brussels but it really was gross how often I'd randomly smell piss.
- OJFord 1y agoThere are open air urinals in a lot of Europe, including Brussels, so as long as that's what you need (and you're male)... I imagine stations are just so high traffic that it's partly an attempt to limit demand, and partly to fund the almost continual cleaning necessary to prevent them being completely disgusting. Kings Cross is paid too for example (but not (London) Waterloo, curiously).
- komali2 1y ago> limit demand I mean that's what I find hilarious about trying to do capitalism to toilets. People gonna poop and pee, there's literally nothing you can supply/demand about it. You can't do congestion pricing on a toilet, people will pee either way! You should just make it easy as possible to pee where you want them to pee, or they're gonna pee where you don't want them to pee. I guess I shouldn't laugh, it exactly the same logic of trying to do capitalism around housing or feeding people...
- thinkingemote 1y agoKing's Cross toilets are free, have been for a while. Victoria is free too now. Not sure when they changed. Possibly because of Corona, but maybe for longer.
- crazygringo 1y agoI'm confused. The title does not describe the site at all. The site is a database of public toilets, with leaderboards for people who help update the information. I can't find anything on it about earning money from toilets or being an "AirBNB of toilets".
- geodel 1y agoPerhaps it would be scheme like those Toilet service champions in Gentleman clubs in US. Guys handing napkins and mints to hassled bathroom visitors for couple of dollars.
- ndriscoll 1y agoIt seems to be pulling from OpenStreetMap, and doesn't explicitly say that "community contributions" make their way back upstream (or direct people to go contribute to OSM), so I suspect they are not encouraging people to update the information, but instead are trying to bootstrap their own proprietary database. OSM can have more data like gendered/non-gendered, accessibility, fee/non-fee, availability of changing stations, etc. and is actually free and open so makes more sense to use directly.
- ivape 1y agoI feel like we have enough real estate and money to build toilets on every block.
- nancyminusone 1y agoRelated (sort of): 2013's Poop Map. Though I suppose it's only for #2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poop_Map https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poop_Map
- CuriouslyC 1y agoWow. Shark jumped.
- the__alchemist 1y agoNote: there is a graveyard full of similar projects. I think this would be a great service if this takes off, but I hope they learn from prior art.
- geodel 1y agoFor a moment I thought there is a graveyard full of similar visitors
- emsign 1y agoAnd the urinal stench after a week is a bonus.
- pimlottc 1y agoThis map widget is terrible. There is no information about each dot on the map screen, you have to click it and go to a new page (with a load spinner!) to see what it is. When you go back to the map, it resets to the original location and zoom level instead of where you had it when you clicked. You also can't zoom the map very far. A map is useless if you can't quickly view and compare multiple locations. Basic information should be available on the map screen itself, ideally with different icons and/or colors, instant popup dialogs, etc. If you want to have additional detail on a separate page, that's fine, but you shouldn't have to leave the map to accomplish the main function of the site.
- proee 1y agoI am forever grateful to Starbucks in San Francisco for offering a public accessible restroom during an extreme bathroom emergency. For whatever reason, my body did not react well to "Vitamin Water" while riding on the BART. I think perhaps the crystalline fructose was the problem (Have never drank it since). Bottom line, I barely made it out of the BART station and had maybe 30 seconds left until purse disaster. I hobbled across the street to a Starbucks and prayed with all my might that the door would not be locked or require some kind of access code. Thankfully it opened and I was relieved from what would have been a most embarrassing day.
- kevin11111 1y agothank you for all your feedback, currently this is a work in progress, building the community and continue improving the app, the data we have and implementing the renting system.