Question 1

Are you going to have a way to mark parking areas? Going into the city based on the time/day .. there should be a way to mark the best areas or parking garages typically available. That can be a social feature -- based on a particular address and time/day you oughta be able to...

Accepted Answer

Johan, Great suggestion. We are planning on making it easy to mark areas for parking when sharing maps with others. In the future, we could extend this to allow crowdsourced parking suggestions based on your route & the time/day, as you suggested. Thanks!

Question 2

Interesting project. What's your ETA on RTM for the iOS apps and what's the prognosis moving forward when the first release is out?

Accepted Answer

Hi Tobias, thanks for the interest. We haven't set a firm date for the public launch. Our top priority is soft-launching to our invite only list of early testers. (sign up at http://mapkin.co) Once we have the feedback / traction data from our early users, we'll assess what needs to be done before launching version 1.0.

Question 3

When developing this app is it something that will be charge for or advertising based. If advertising based will you allow landmarks to advertise to the people in that area real time? ie. If a store who is an advertiser can they blast out a coupon code to those in a 5 mile rad...

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Brandon, we expect the app to be free. Using "sponsored" landmarks is one of the possible monetization ideas we're thinking about. When we do monetize, we will make sure that it's done in a way that does not compromise user experience.

Question 4

Hi there. Will this app be friendly for people with disabilities? When Mapkin checks for parking, will I be notified of handicapped spaces or have to try my luck? Or be told about laws like here in Seattle? Our city has no "set aside" parking for folks with disabilities. So in...

Accepted Answer

Lincoln, interesting idea. We currently aren't planning on having the system know about specific parking rules or regulations, but this would be interesting information to crowdsource in the future.

Question 5

Do you have a biz plan you can share with Investors?

Accepted Answer

Hi Ignacio. When we raise our next round of funding, we'll be able to share more information about our business plan with potential investors.

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