Today isMardi Gras , and like any booze - fuel street celebration , that means heaps of full - bladdered reveler seeking out a place to salvage themselves . gratefully , technology ’s here to save up New Orleans from becoming a literalUrinetown . Meet AirPnP , the web app that lets you do your business in the privacy of a unknown ’s base .
As the name so aptly paint a picture , AirPnP takes the way - sharing role model of AirBnB and soar it in to the urgent requisite . Residents and business owners—”entrepeeneurs , ” as they ’re call — offer up their facilities withstraightforwardorcheekylistings , with a going rate of $ 1 to $ 3 per , uh , visit . Some provide perks alongside the porcelain ( free beer with every peeis a great way to guarantee repeat customers ) , while others areusing their bathrooms as a fundraiser , sort of the diametric end of the traditional bake sale .
founding father and New Orleanians Travis Laurendine and Max Gaudinlaunched AirPnPafter experiencing “ the pain point of receive no spot to legally wee-wee ” during Mardi Gras . As they explain :
This problem is often work by using what is screw as a “ rogue pee . ” If capture the person faces a weekend in Orleans Parish Prison . Yet this crocked penalization does n’t terminate 1000 upon 1000 of “ rogue pees . ” This intelligibly demonstrates the requirement for a effectual alternative .
Mardi Gras is the first event for AirPnP , but we ’re seriously hoping it break down across the nation . It ’s a Fat Tuesday miracle ! [ AirPnP ]
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