There seems little doubt that parking in major cities is only going to get worse. That’s the issue behind Parking Auction, a new I phone app which attempts to match users with spaces.
The app was launched recently on Manhattans Upper West Side. Users can log on and for a fee, and be connected to another user who is vacating a space – for a fee. Strictly speaking, it isn’t legal to ‘sell’ a parking space and so what the service is providing, is ‘information’. I’m not sure what the difference is in practical terms though.
Having spent more time than I care to think about, driving around towns and cities looking for that elusive parking spot, I can fully appreciate the need. Who wouldn’t pay a couple of quid for a parking space when they’ve been driving around for twenty minutes? Perhaps one to investigate here in the UK then.
Thinking more broadly, what other ‘free resource’ might be ripe for similar treatment? I’d happily pay to take someone’s place at the front of a queue for example. Could that be a basis of an app based service as well?
Quote Of The Day
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Successful businesses often have their birth in a personal problem. So it was with Manchester student Alex Dixon when she was looking for swimwear for her own curvy figure. There simply weren’t the attractive designs which were available to those with smaller sized breasts.
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I don’t know much about woman’s swimwear but I do know that mainstream clothing manufaturers seem to focus on a pretty narrow band of body shapes with what they can offer, and that many people who fall outside of the ‘norm’ are left short changed. Swimwear is just one area of clothing where this type of opportunity exists.
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