Show HN: PeeYork, Bathroom finder app for NY

This is my go-to app to find bathrooms: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.starbucks.com&#x2F;store-locator" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.starbucks.com&#x2F;store-locator</a>

Neat. I&#x27;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 &quot;loft&quot; with 10+ people squeezed in.<p>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 &quot;hey I&#x27;m going to run to the Hilton, I&#x27;ll be right back&quot; or &quot;has anyone checked if the Mariott is open?&quot;.<p>I bought the domain thinking it&#x27;d be fun to build a bathroom finder&#x2F;rating app but never got around to it!

I had this same exact idea years ago when I worked in NYC.<p>Except the name was &quot;New York Shitty&quot;<p>I think I wanted to make it primarily for the name.

This seems very useful but shouldn&#x27;t it be called &quot;N Y Pee&quot;?

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.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hashFactory&#x2F;ImThirsty" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hashFactory&#x2F;ImThirsty</a>

There&#x27;s an underserved market in SF, too. I&#x27;d pay cash money for a regularly updated restroom finder.<p>Best of luck!<p>EDIT: どうもありがとう!<p>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.<p>Heck, even compared to the US 2 decades ago when gas stations allowed public access to their restrooms.

When I was van dwelling around the US I was blown away at how inviting NYC was for van living. I was expecting it to be the hardest place in the US due to density, but it was one of the easiest.<p>First spot I checked was a dead end street next to a warehouse in Williamsburg. Backing onto the Hudson. Beautiful Manhattan views. A park on one side, and another a block down with a bathroom. And immediately fell into a community of about 10 others do the same thing.<p>Amazing.<p>This is the kind of app that serves well for van living, tho I rarely couldn’t find something.

Didn&#x27;t George Costanza make millions with this app idea, only to lose it to Madoff?<p>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&#x27;t going to voluntarily walk into a police station.

The itoilet<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Pci_7o6cCbM" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Pci_7o6cCbM</a>

7 years ago we had Airpnp... same as Airbnb, just for toilets.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenextweb.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;airpnp-its-like-airbnb-but-for-toilets" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;thenextweb.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;airpnp-its-like-airbnb-but-for-t...</a>

I can’t remember where I found it, but there’s an ad-supported iOS app called Flush that does this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;flush-toilet-finder-map&#x2F;id955254528" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;flush-toilet-finder-map&#x2F;id9552...</a>

Interesting. I mean I have been using Where is Public Toilet app for years. That app is crowd sourced, so you can suggest bathroom location. Not sure how this app is different.

But seriously, this is an underrated problem. As a runner and someone who drinks a lot of water I wish there were more public restrooms. Even johns are ok

There’s a great similar app called runPee geared more towards movie goers and what happens during the film while you step out.<p>Neat concept.

As a foodie, one of the most frustrating things is answering nature&#x27;s unexpected calls, this App is a foodie&#x27;s 911. My to-go app is <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goweewee.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goweewee.com</a> or just type &#x27;wc&#x27; on Google Map

I almost thought I read YC 21 PeeYork.

You need an app to find an alley?

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. &quot;NYC, we&#x27;re so progressive we can&#x27;t even address the basic requirements to support human life&quot;