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Now, an app to help you find friendly bathrooms when nature calls
A new smartphone app wants urban dwellers to open up their homes to strangers desperately needing to use the bathroom.
CLOO’, short for community plus loo (plus an apostrophe mark to represent a GPS marker), aims to create a network of “member loos” from trusting, sympathetic people who will trade a few minutes in their personal facilities “for the cost of a latte,” the company boasts on its website.
“Here’s how we save those nice pants of yours,” the website said. “CLOO’ is a community of registered users who choose to share their bathrooms and make city-living easier, while earning a small profit.”
Cloo’s concept is to build a network of users who are willing to share their bathroom. When you are in a large city and are looking for some relief, log on to Cloo and see the location of the nearest bathroom of a friend, or a friend of a friend, reports LA Times.
From here you can see the details of their bathroom, the cost to use it, and you can even send them a request message. Shortly, you will receive an invite if their loo is available.
There is a way to make money if you are willing to share your loo, as users will pay to use your toilet services and “brand partnerships” with toilet paper manufacturers may also shower free products on hosts. The app will also include a system for rating member toilets.
CLOO’ co-founders Hillary Young and Deanna McDonald told a blog on tech site CNET that the team is gearing up for a launch in New York early next year — first on Apple iOS platforms and then possibly on Android devices.
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