Cloo Bathroom App Allows You To Rent Out Your Toilet

New Yorkers know too well what it's like to run around town pee-pee dancing toward the nearest accesible bathroom. Images of the worst case scenario swim (gush!) wildly through your mind, as you duck in and out of random spots, hopefully without catching the mindful eye of bar owners (and not daring to use the city's largest chain of bathrooms, Starbucks). All for a little relief.

Thus: Cloo, a useful app service that combines your social networks with map integration to help avoid such anxious ridden gotta-go experiences. The app aims to fix the difficult search for a clean toilet, while also allowing those who rent out their bathrooms to earn some extra cash on the side.

From the Cloo site:

CLOO is a community of registered users who choose to share their bathrooms and make city-living easier, while earning a small profit. Using social media connections, CLOO' shows what friends you have in common with the host, turning a stranger’s loo into a friend of a friend’s loo.

We've all heard of the upsides to sites like CouchSurfing, but after airbnb's horror story when a woman came home to her house robbed and destroyed by a guest, tell us, do you think Cloo is a good idea?

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[VIA Lifehacker]

Comments

[barbara960]

08:34 PM on 09/08/2011

Great idea! What could go wrong?

[BadWolf]

10:41 AM on 09/08/2011

OMG!!! I love it! I won't participate but, what a great idea!

[TFDNYC]

07:30 AM on 09/08/2011

No way. In this city?

Advice my grandmother gave me that has proven invaluable: never ever skip an opportunity to go to the bathroom- even if you don't have to.

[karen lyons kalmenson]

07:33 AM on 09/08/2011

and always wear clean underwear

[mauispiderweb]

10:42 AM on 09/08/2011

without holes

[BadWolf]

10:42 AM on 09/08/2011

I keep telling my daughter that and 9 times out of 10, lo and behold, she has to go!

[karen lyons kalmenson]

07:15 AM on 09/08/2011

new app is a p*sser

[karen lyons kalmenson]

07:14 AM on 09/08/2011

wow...who leaked this story;-D

[Onion City]

11:37 PM on 09/07/2011

Maybe not people's houses, but definitely a good idea. Me, a young and available ... just kidding... fair-haired maiden ..... just kidding...and a mother of one, face that problem when in park on a weekend. Some of the city parks in Chicago have loos, but they are not available on the weekends, at least not all of them and not all of the time, just my luck. Isn't easy.

[emmeaki]

10:26 PM on 09/07/2011

What if a psycho killer or rapist comes to the door? (or vice versa) No thanks!

[Random User]

10:24 PM on 09/07/2011

If you're going to pay to use a bathroom, why wouldn't you reduce your problem and become a customer at Starbucks or a bar and be allowed to use the bathroom?

[Onion City]

11:43 PM on 09/07/2011

Depends how much they, private people, want for the 'pleasure'. If it's cheaper than, say, a venti, then let the business prosper for the common folk, but if the said venti is cheaper, then I guess a little caffeine in the system wouldn't hurt. Just drink the coffee first, pee later.

[TAIsabel]

09:12 PM on 09/07/2011

My husband would love it but, I don't think it is a good idea to let strangers in your house to use the toilet. You might get a lot more than you bargained for.

Let's face it, I don't even like my husband using my toilet!

[holyghostie]

08:41 PM on 09/07/2011

You won't find one in the new World Trade Center memorial because the architect forgot it....

[mamased]

07:50 PM on 09/07/2011

Actually Charmin has created an app called "Sit or Squat" that locates and allows you to rate public bathrooms.

[cameron d]

07:18 PM on 09/07/2011

George Costanza had that idea! The E-Toilet!

[John Cotton]

08:27 AM on 09/08/2011

Thanks to LD, but damn that Bernie Madoff!