Startup will wash your car wherever it is located

1) "Wherever it is located" might be the wrong approach. In a place like NYC, I can assure you that if your car is parked on, say, 74th & Lex, you're not going to get away with doing a car wash there. Same goes for almost every commercial parking lot in the city -- they're not going to let a random guy come in and start washing cars (they don't let owners do that).

2) As others have pointed out, there are environmental considerations here, not for tree-hugger reasons, but for legal ones. Car washes are one of those things that many places are quite strict about technically, but when it's applied for personal use it's overlooked. So in other words, Jonny Law isn't (necessarily) going to give you a ticket for washing your car in your driveway and not recycling the wastewater/solvents/etc., the situation becomes completely different when a commercial enterprise is involved. Similar to my point above, you can bet your bottom dollar that NYPD is going to give any semi-commercial car washer a VERY hard time if he's found washing a car on any public street in Manhattan. Likewise for the local PD of a smaller town if it's a guy washing cars in an office parking lot.

This may be the sort of business that works only in suburbia or places where a Cherry-supplied vendor is literally replacing a guy in his driveway - which, to end on a positive note, is most of the country.

The price point is too low for me to believe they'll do a decent job. There are already mobile car detailers here in Portland, and a good exterior detail costs around $100. That's because the companies are licensed and bonded. If I'm going to go cheap on a car wash, I'll do a $6 drive-through special at Washman on my way to the grocery store.

Not knowing the coverage area before signing up is a problem for me as well. My email address and phone number are private - I'm not giving them up until a company gives me something in return.

Isn't having your car washed one of those things where portability matters least? It really feels like the ultra-local meme taken too far.

Car washes are abundant and reasonably fast, and a car, in its usual course of being driven, will pass them often.

It just seems like sunglasses for the blind or something ... a product where its benefit is negated by the nature of the problem.

Also, more insight regarding the materials your service utilizes (ie soaps, brushes, mits, wax, compound - if any, etc) would be great. If this is on the site already, I apologize, I did not register nor did I really dig around (Maybe I wanted to know a bit more to justify my time spent registering).

People dish out serious amounts to pamper their automobiles. Some take this very seriously and can be critical of the process.

Once established, there is plenty of room to both deepen and widen the product offering here - premium services: compound treatment for swirl marks, waxing, 3m clear bra, paintless dent removal, and so on.

I'm assuming you may be trying to create a labor network of sorts and started with basic car washes. Either way, I believe there is a market here, more details on the execution would be great.

*Provided these are hand washes and you're targeting a middle-upper class market, the price point is actually perfect. In my area (NY) I pay ~$30 for a hand wash, and I have to bring it in. I will not bring my car to a regular car wash, even so called "brushless" as they are terrible for your paint. If you're targeting the general public, it may be a bit high.

Given the whole, "we come to you", makes me think of washing the car in the office parking lot, which could indicate a White Collar demographic. I also see homes, but personally I'd just do it myself if I had a house and driveway.

One more question, how do you handle water at an office building?

I like the idea, but I wonder why most US service owners seem to assume that all their website visitors are from the US. I tried looking in the "Help" and "Terms" sections, but after ~3 minutes of searching I can't confirm that the service is available only within the US... I'm pretty sure it is, but would have liked to know without having to read all the fine print, especially since it says "park anywhere".

http://www.antoncohen.com/2011/10/what-cherrycom-washed-my-c...

Particularly, I would have thought there'd be porn or some other domain-specific thing that would have grabbed that up and held it.

At least in the state where I live, there are regulations that require car wash locations to recycle the runoff water. I don't see how this would be possible with this model.

1) On the payment screen you have Paypal has an option but I can't actually click on it to allow the paypal option. I'm using the newest version of Chrome.

2) I went through the whole registration with credit card details and everything and I got an error message back saying "We're closed" and to come back 9-5pm. It would be much easier for me and probably for you just to take down all my information and process it when you're open or let me pre-pay for a wash or something. It's a little frustrating that I will have to do that all over again.

It's amazing how the obvious in some countries is, sometimes, a novelty in others. Another example: I found out a couple of months ago that, in Chile, there's simply NO ONE offering lockers on beaches. Meaning you have to drive to the place and leave your stuff in the car, or simply not take a wallet/cellphone/etc when you're out to surf...

In the US, I can see my Dad signing up for a weekly car wash at our suburb home.

The homepage says:

    We believe our customers should use Cherry 100% 
    worry-free. So, we’re introducing the Cherry Guarantee:

    Accidents happen. But when you use Cherry, we’re
    accountable for those accidents, not you. We cover 
    any scratch or ding and replace anything broken in 
    or stolen from your car.

    THE COMPANY OFFERS INFORMATION AND A METHOD TO OBTAIN 
    SUCH THIRD PARTY CARWASH SERVICES, BUT DOES NOT AND 
    DOES NOT INTEND TO PROVIDE CARWASH SERVICES OR ACT 
    IN ANY WAY AS A CARWASH PROVIDER, AND HAS NO 
    RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY CARWASH 
    SERVICES PROVIDED TO YOU BY SUCH THIRD PARTIES.

That said this would be a huge deal in Los Angeles, where hoses are in short supply, street parked cars are in abundance, and the dry air and smog leaves a visible layer of dirt on your car within a week of a wash.

I'm kind of saddened that the idea never even occurred to me.

I think its a great idea in practice but they are going to have the environmental police on their ass in the USA.

Best luck Cherry. I won't be using this service, since I don't wash my car until it rains.

1. Can you request a car wash for a car you don't own? If so, how can you prevent car owners who don't want the service handling their care washed as a gift (or prank)? If not, how does a user of the service prove ownership of a car?

2. Does the service require cars to be parked in a relatively unoccupied area so as to minimize impact on other cars and/or pedestrians in the area?

But, what if I don't believe in tipping?

Uber could add a whole range of services to their app.

is it just a spray from a hose or do they also wax the car