[jbigelow76]

    >Way to side step the fact that MonkeyParking was basically a service that encourage people to hoard parking spaces for money.

Has MonkeyParking been around long enough to determine if people are "hoarding" spaces to broker the info? After a certain length of time the four or five bucks you could earn is offset by wasting time sitting in your car waiting for info purchaser. I don't live in a city as congested as SF but I could never imagine waiting more than about 5-10 minutes (even that's a stretch) before deciding "fuck it, I don't need 4 bucks that bad".

[withdavidli]

See my answer above on why I think it would be worth it, also consider the unemployed/underemployed.

I don't think the app had been out long enough to get a large user base. I only saw it a 2-3 weeks ago and then the gov't acted pretty quickly. So no data on my end. I think most people that read the article about the app imagined the worse case scenario, which in my opinion was likely to happen.

Another scenario would be for tenants who have reserved parking to park out on the streets, wait for someone that's will to buy the place in their apartment. They would then move their car back to their reserved parking space until they see an easy open space to take that's near them. This scenario doesn't take much effort from the person abusing the system.

[tzs]

The big problem is not going to be legitimate parkers lingering a few minutes after they finish their shopping trying to sell their space. It is going to be people who would not otherwise be there specifically grabbing spots to sell.

One of the other parking app companies, ParkModo, is already paying people to do just that. They offer $13/hr to people to go to the Mission District on weekend peak hours, find spots and take them, and then give them up to ParkModo users.