Comments on: The latest web sharing trend: parking spots

By: Julien Braun

Julien Braun — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:18:34 +0000

In France, collaborative consumption of parking spots is also emerging, in a slightly different way : drivers help each other by letting the world know when they vacate a space, so somebody else can take their spot. It’s starting to work quite well in Paris, via a mobile app called ShareMySpot (http://www.sharemyspot.com , I’m one of the co-founders). Do you think this kind of system would be appliable to the US?

By: Michael Kanarek

Michael Kanarek — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:32:32 +0000

Just Park It (http://justpark.it) is a startup based in Israel currently under beta, targeting the Israeli market (for now, Hebrew only). Our approach is somewhat different calling for a change in consumer parking habits (for many excellent reasons… ). We educate the market to pre-plan parking as a part of their daily routine, so people actually navigate to the parking spot instead of the detination. Most of the spots registered are 8am-6pm, so owners can still make use of their asset when needed. Ontop we give the owners the ability to control pricing for the hour/whole day/night options so pricing fluctuates by demand.

Michael Kanarek
co-founder
justpark.it

By: Park Circa

Park Circa — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:44:38 +0000

Craigslist works well enough to help people share dedicated monthly parking (although they don’t provide a map, require reposting, don’t provide automated billing, etc). But beyond improving on what Craigslist can offer the monthly parking market, Park Circa is allows members to keep using their coveted parking space and to just “micro-share” it during specific times, e.g. regularly M-F 8-5, over the weekend trip to Tahoe, or during a summer vacation, etc. Our app then allows drivers to find these spaces that are available right now, and park in them for an hour, a day, etc. This means that we use our urban resources more efficiently, and owners make money on a valuable, underutilized resource.

Long term we’d love people to have access to parking spaces all over the city, where and when they need it, for the same price they currently pay for a single parking space in one location (which they only use sometimes).

By: Andrew Hazlett

Andrew Hazlett — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:07:20 +0000

Here in Baltimore Parking Panda (https://www.parkingpanda.com/) has had some early successes doing just this.

By: Odile Beniflah

Odile Beniflah — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:00:29 +0000

This makes perfect sense!
I know people who have done this offline with neighbors but it had to be a monthly agreement between 2 people only and no flexibility when 1 needed the parking spot outside the pre-defined schedule. Now you can rent to anyone anytime you want: another great example of collaborative consumption.

By: Flavius Saracut

Flavius Saracut — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:13:47 +0000

I love the idea, it would be nicely complemented by a mobile app.

By: Katie @ Women's Magazine

Katie @ Women's Magazine — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:04:36 +0000

Nicely, finally my vacant parking lot can earn some money. Much better than many social bulls*** sites offering nothing but false promises.

By: Mark Bathie

Mark Bathie — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:09:19 +0000

Check out http://freegler.com – Collaborative Consumption site for stuff around your home

By: Katie Fehrenbacher

Katie Fehrenbacher — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:37:04 +0000

I love it when I write a trend post, and it becomes clear that it’s actually more of a trend than I thought.

By: Katie Fehrenbacher

Katie Fehrenbacher — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:28:59 +0000

@John Katsiotis, Cool, thanks for the add!