[HN Gopher] Show HN: PeeYork, Bathroom finder app for NY
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Show HN: PeeYork, Bathroom finder app for NY
Author : yusuke242424
Score : 15 points
Date : 2021-09-08 21:39 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (peeyork.webflow.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (peeyork.webflow.io)
| cyberge99 wrote:
| There's a great similar app called runPee geared more towards
| movie goers and what happens during the film while you step out.
|
| Neat concept.
| holler wrote:
| Neat. I've been holding onto a domain thronehunter.com, for 10
| years now, after a stint at a startup in a downtown metro, where
| the office was a very small "loft" with 10+ people squeezed in.
|
| Myself and a few others fairly quickly had an aversion to using
| the lone bathroom in the loft for respectful reasons and instead
| began seeking out bathrooms at nearby hotels and elsewhere. We
| would often joke "hey I'm going to run to the Hilton, I'll be
| right back" or "has anyone checked if the Mariott is open?".
|
| I bought the domain thinking it'd be fun to build a bathroom
| finder/rating app but never got around to it!
| hamburgerwah wrote:
| The HN crowd loves to promote urbanization, density, blah blah
| blah. The fact that such an app exists at all is de facto proof
| of a failed city. Just a comic level of dysfunction. "NYC, we're
| so progressive we can't even address the basic requirements to
| support human life"
| wffurr wrote:
| I don't think "the HN crowd" has anything close to such a
| consensus. But I do think you could find broad agreement that
| cities should have more sanitary facilities in general.
| Teknoman117 wrote:
| Yeah. I always make sure to hit a restroom before driving
| through a city. Few things suck as much as feeling the call of
| nature while you're stuck on surface streets in the middle of a
| big city. Where are you going to be able to temporarily park
| your car and where is the restroom.
|
| In the less dense zones, it's just stop at the next gas
| station/mcdonalds/starbucks/whatever. Less dense than that,
| just run into the woods...
| tristanc wrote:
| It's not too often this comes up ... but here is an iOS app for
| finding drinking water fountains and public restrooms using
| Overpass's OSM API.
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| https://github.com/hashFactory/ImThirsty
| pietervdvn wrote:
| Or alternatively, one can also use
| https://mapcomplete.osm.be/drinking_water and
| https://mapcomplete.osm.be/toilets to find and easily update
| them in OpenStreetMap
| Grustaf wrote:
| This seems very useful but shouldn't it be called "N Y Pee"?
| ytdytvhxgydvhh wrote:
| Surely you mean Manshattan?
| oh_sigh wrote:
| Didn't George Costanza make millions with this app idea, only to
| lose it to Madoff?
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| Also, NY bathroom pro-tip: look for the local police precinct.
| They will always have public bathrooms, they exist all over NY,
| even in the more residential areas with no shops, and the type of
| people who go and destroy public bathrooms or shoot up drugs in
| them for hours usually aren't going to voluntarily walk into a
| police station.
| eliseumds wrote:
| That's right, and not only in New York or in the USA, you'd be
| able to find public bathrooms in many police stations across
| the globe.
| Klonoar wrote:
| I was gonna say, call the app "Costanza".
| rejectedandsad wrote:
| That's an excellent idea!
| mistersquid wrote:
| There's an underserved market in SF, too. I'd pay cash money for
| a regularly updated restroom finder.
|
| Best of luck!
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