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Washboard: Quarters for laundry delivered monthly

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18 pointsHectorRamos14 comments

This actually isn't a joke? I got to the point where it asks for a credit card number, seriously expecting (hoping maybe?) for a "Haha!" message, and yet...

It's like someone read the New York Magazine Article “Let’s, Like, Demolish Laundry” (http://nymag.com/news/features/laundry-apps-2014-5/) and completely missed the point.

I would not be surprised if they already have $1M seed funding. You can't just create quarters out of thin air, after all!

another company got here first: https://screen.yahoo.com/first-citywide-change-bank-2-000000...

Seriously though, I sure hope they spent as much time on the business model and idea as they did on their design and UI.

> Grocery and convenience stores aren't always willing to give out more than a few dollars worth of quarters at a time.

Since when did that happen? I live in TO and as long as you buy something from the store, they're always willing to give back change.

So, you give it a credit card number and it gives you cash? What could go wrong there?

I know its not much cash but still... brass balls to run that one.

I live in bumfuck NM and both laundromats in my town use stored value cards. Are we far more progressive than I'd thought?

You are, I live in ABQ and the two by me are still quarters. Stored value would be much nicer.

First CitiWide Laundry Change Bank

What laundromat doesn't have a change machine available?

Many apartment building laundry rooms don’t have one.

Are there any statistics about this? In my southern Brooklyn neighborhood, which is on the cutting edge of approximately nothing, the laundry rooms in all three apartment buildings I've lived in converted from coin payments to stored-value cards in the mid-2000s.

Before they switched to cards, did they have a coin change machine?

My own building was only built in the 2000s and has a single coin operated machine. It was also fairly cheap. I suspect that many conversions are funded and operated by an outside vendor.

The apartments I've lived in have both used laundry cards instead of quarters.

The target customers probably don't carry cash to put in a change machine either.

Idea: arrange for each washing machine to have an email address that you can square cash the money to start it.

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