{"id":5389,"date":"2017-05-14T20:04:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T20:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/bikeparking-club-connects-a-social-network-to-bike-locks-in-a-city.html"},"modified":"2017-05-14T20:04:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T20:04:35","slug":"bikeparking-club-connects-a-social-network-to-bike-locks-in-a-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/bikeparking-club-connects-a-social-network-to-bike-locks-in-a-city.html","title":{"rendered":"BikeParking.Club connects a social network to bike locks in a city"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Palo Alto has a bike lock problem, and a pair of software developers and a designer took a shot at trying to solve that problem in 24 hours in New York this weekend.<\/p>\n

Eugene Tonev, Alexander Sivura and\u00a0Yuri Dymov \u2014 currently at health startup HealthTap \u2014 put together a model of the kinds of bike racks you might see on the streets of Palo Alto. But this rack has a connected lock on it, paired with a social network, that can activate on demand. It\u2019s part of an app called BikeParking.Club, which is a network for bikers that might install structures and locks like this to make sure they always have a spot somewhere nearby for their bikes. All this was thrown together and actually worked onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt New York\u2019s hackathon this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou always need to carry all these chains, or buy two chains and leave one in office or one in home,\u201d Tonev says. \u201cYou always have a lock around your places. So, if you have chains everywhere, why share\u00a0them [to make sure you always have a spot somewhere].\u201d<\/p>\n

The prototype they showed onstage was a mock-up of pipes and plumbing pulled from Home Depot nearby \u2014 but it\u2019s something that resembles what a lock network might look like in the real world. Users connect to the app, which helps them find a nearby open spot and then gives them the ability to lock their bike on the rack. The three bike to work every day, and that\u2019s why they figured it\u2019s a problem that probably needs an answer at some point.<\/p>\n

The big problem is twofold, Tonev says: having enough spots around that bikers can access; and not having to carry locks around everywhere to make sure those bikes (hopefully) stay in those spots. So when a user installs a lock, they\u2019ll automatically get access to the parking network around the city while always having access to a spot in the lock they installed.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe lock is an entry point, after that \u2014 If even half of the [tens of thousands of cyclists]\u00a0will install that [in Palo Alto], we\u2019ll immediately have something like 350,000\u00a0parking lots for bikes.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a hack, of course, but according to the trio, HealthTap encourages them to try out new ideas. Opening up the biking universe might not be such a foreign idea for a healthcare startup, though the software developers suddenly having to deal with a hardware problem was a bit of a taller order. So, who knows where it goes, but at least when they fly back to the Bay Area they\u2019ll have another neat project to throw on their portfolios.<\/p>\n

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