Airpnp: Like Airbnb, but for toilets

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Post by naren87 » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 1:19 PM UTC

Airpnp: Like Airbnb, but for toilets
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Re: Airpnp: Like Airbnb, but for toilets

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Post by unwind » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 2:24 PM UTC

The name, while humorous, seems rather likely to provoke Airbnb. The risk of confusing the two is simply too great.

Other than that, I wonder how this works for private customers; seems the number of ... transactions per unit of time can be a lot higher than for somewhere to sleep.

Re: Airpnp: Like Airbnb, but for toilets

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Post by platelets » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 2:25 PM UTC

Is it almost too gimmicky to be taking seriously? I guess a business could host their toilet on the site for free to divert passing traffic into their store?

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Post by raldi » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 2:27 PM UTC

It’s tragic that this is a clear-cut trademark violation, because the name is otherwise perfect.

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Post by chimeracoder » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 2:31 PM UTC

unwind wrote: post #2

The name, while humorous, seems rather likely to provoke Airbnb. The risk of confusing the two is simply too great. Other than that, I wonder how this works for private customers; seems the number of ... transactions per unit of time can be a lot higher than for somewhere to sleep.

There's another way that "AirPNP" could be misinterpreted, to humorous effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_and_play

(It's especially amusing when you take into account the stories (whether exaggerated/apocryphal or not) of people using AirBNB as a means to identify places to hold such "parties").