Show HN: Gamifying Urination: Peezer.io Lets You Track and Share Pee Durations

peezer.io

5 points·ninjaplavi··10 comments

Hey All,

I made Peezer.io mostly for fun since me and my friends are always searching for the most ridiculous things to compete in. Also, urinating is something we all need to do every day anyway so why not make it a little bit interesting?

The website is pretty simple. It lets you record audio of your urination stream and programmatically calculates the duration of your longest continuous pee stream. The results are stored in local storage and displayed in a list and/or on duration over time graph. There is an option to share results via WhatsApp, Viber, and Telegram.

Most "Show HN"s seem like they're just another tyre shine, but finally, we have one that really takes the piss.

hahaha, I am too much of a noob to make something that would blend in with the rest of the submissions. That is why I try to build something fun at least.

What's your exit strategy? Can you make some money by selling ads or aggregating user's data?

This is just an MVP to see if anyone is interested really. If it gets some traction I will probably include some non-intrusive ads, if something like that exists.

IANAL, but doesn't it fall under HIPAA?

I would say not since we don't store any info anywhere except on the user's device, or browser's local storage. Also, users are choosing to share this info if they want, with their friends.

I was obviously joking, but it's nice to know that you treat this seriously.

Hah sorry, I am new to HN and I didn't want to sound arrogant by assuming that you were joking. But your comment made me to double check so thanks!

You can't record me that is against my HIPAA law!

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