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People with money and no time and people with time and no money equals the ODME, On-Demand Mobile Economy- at The 3rd Street Promenade.
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Venture Beat- Building apps and services for lazy people is one area the tech industry is quite good at.
2014 was a big year for getting everything you could want from the comfort of your smartphone. We found plenty of these services in Y Combinator’s Summer 2014 class. But next year is going to get even lazier:
Parking
Earlier in 2014, parking apps were all about buying and selling street parking spots, Luxe Valet (Our App), Zirx, ValetAnywhere, and Vatler appealed to every driver in busy cities like San Francisco with a simple proposition: on-demand valet parking from wherever is convenient. Freeing drivers from looking for parking near their destination and offering the convenience of handing off their cars just in front of their destination became a very popular new experience — just look at all the money investors have thrown into these companies whose product they undoubtedly use.something that wasn’t rightfully — or legally — people’s to buy and sell. But not too long after, a crop of startups including
And SpotHero, a three-year-old company, finally made its way to San Francisco. Unlike the on-demand valet parking apps, SpotHero makes drivers park their own car in private lots and garages they book and pay for through the app. But SpotHero also shone the spotlight on parking inventory, the aspect of the parking that will make some and break others. Just as companies like Lyft and Uber are duking it out by racking up (and poaching) as many drivers as they can, the parking apps will be racing to grab as much inventory as possible.
