Short Summary
I am a software engineer that loves working in different cafes around where I live. The problem, they ALL require me to enter a code of some sort to get into the bathroom, and I never get the receipt that has the code on it :(
One day I was chatting with some friends and we realized that this is something we could fix!
How many times have you been standing waiting for the bathroom code as the cafe workers are working and not paying attention to you? How many times has someone asked you for the code, or have you heard someone ask: "What is the bathroom code?" and thought, I wish there could be an app for that, Well, We are making it!
What We Need & What You Get
Basically here it is:
- There is a domain name we want, but Godaddy has listed it as "Premium" and we now need money to get that.
- We already have a couple franchises working with us, but we would like money to market to more franchises.
- Some funding to cover development costs (api costs mainly)
What you will get:
- This app will allow you get basically get into what ever bathroom you want without the need to look at that receipt that you probably threw away or just didn't get.
- You can look up what bathrooms near you are more clean/dirty.
- Currently we already have Boston, Chicago, and NYC covered and plan to add many more.
- We plan to add a LOT of functionality such as if the bathroom has a baby changing station, quality of the paper, if they have warm water, or if you have to wash your hands in cold water as well as a lot more.
Risks & Challenges
There are little to no risks involved with this project, however there are some challenges.
- The first thing we need money for is marketing so we can partner with more restaurants/cafe chains and get agreements for them to be listed in the app.
- We need to buy a domain name. Now, here is the thing. we know what domain we want, but it is a Godaddy "premium" domain name and they want a large sum of money for it. This is the 2nd thing we will be putting this money towards
- Finally, Google's map API is not free, it is very affordable, but I will need a little money for starting this to put towards the API after we pass the free request limit.
Other Ways You Can Help
- Ideas to add features to the app would be appreciated. We already have lots of ideas about how to make this tiny problem in people's day to day a little less annoying. But there is always room for more functions that can be packed into this app!
- and finally! We would LOVE if you could share this with anyone at all!