Palo Alto has a motorcycle lock drawback, and a pair of instrument developers and a designer took a shot at trying to resolve that drawback in 24 hours in big apple this weekend.
Eugene Tonev, Alexander Sivura and Yuri Dymov — currently at well being startup HealthTap — put together a version of the types of bike racks you may see on the streets of Palo Alto. however this rack has a connected lock on it, paired with a social network, that can prompt on demand. It’s part of an app called BikeParking.membership, which is a network for bikers that might set up constructions and locks like this to verify they all the time have a spot somewhere neighborhood for his or her bikes. All this was once thrown collectively and if truth be told worked onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt ny’s hackathon this year.
“You at all times wish to lift all these chains, or buy two chains and leave one in office or one in house,” Tonev says. “You all the time have a lock round your places. So, when you’ve got chains all over, why share them [to make sure you always have a spot somewhere].”
The prototype they showed onstage was once a mock-up of pipes and plumbing pulled from dwelling Depot nearby — nevertheless it’s something that resembles what a lock network might appear to be in the actual world. customers connect to the app, which helps them find a nearby open spot and then gives them the flexibility to lock their bike on the rack. The three bike to work every day, and that’s why they figured it’s a problem that most certainly needs a solution someday.
the large downside is twofold, Tonev says: having sufficient spots around that bikers can get right of entry to; and not having to hold locks around in every single place to ensure these bikes (hopefully) stay in those spots. So when a user installs a lock, they’ll robotically get access to the parking community across the metropolis whereas at all times having get right of entry to to a spot within the lock they put in.
“The lock is an entry point, after that — If even half of the [tens of thousands of cyclists] will install that [in Palo Alto], we’ll instantly have something like 350,000 parking rather a lot for bikes.”
It’s a hack, of course, however in keeping with the trio, HealthTap encourages them to take a look at out new concepts. Opening up the biking universe would possibly now not be one of these foreign concept for a healthcare startup, though the tool builders unexpectedly having to deal with a hardware drawback used to be a little of a taller order. So, who knows the place it goes, however as a minimum once they fly again to the Bay house they’ll have some other neat venture to throw on their portfolios.
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