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Show HN: PeeYork, Bathroom finder app for NY

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Re: Show HN: PeeYork, Bathroom finder app for NY

#11

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"

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.

Re: Show HN: PeeYork, Bathroom finder app for NY

#12

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"

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...

Re: Show HN: PeeYork, Bathroom finder app for NY

#13
post #2

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. https://github.com/hashFactory/ImThirsty

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

Re: Show HN: PeeYork, Bathroom finder app for NY

#14
There's an underserved market in SF, too. I'd pay cash money for a regularly updated restroom finder.

Best of luck!

EDIT: どうもありがとう!

Just saw the Hirigana on the landing page. My Japanese partner and I have been lamenting the failure of public restroom availability compared to JP.

Heck, even compared to the US 2 decades ago when gas stations allowed public access to their restrooms.

Re: Show HN: PeeYork, Bathroom finder app for NY

#18

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"

In my experience suburbs and rural areas are even worse for public bathroom access (and even delivery of most other public goods except education). Are there US suburbs with plentiful public bathrooms?
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