“The Smarta 100 is a collection of the most exciting, promising and disruptive new businesses in Britain, and the 2010 list has just been announced today.”
Parkatmyhouse has been named as one of the 100, as selected by judges Deborah Meaden, of Dragons’ Den, Bebo co-founder Michael Birch, Smarta CEO Shaa Waasmund, plumbing magnate Charlie Mullins, and Coffee Republic co-founder Sahar Hasemi.
You can access a full list of the winners and some additional background information by visiting the Smarta Top 100 website.
Also a big congratulations to all the other 99 companies!
This is not a proper blog post, but more of a status update.
While we prepare to show off some of the new features we have been busy building over the past few months, I wanted to reassure you all that we are still promoting Parkatmyhouse both online and offline (including a great article in the Daily Telegraph’s travel section yesterday.)
More information to follow soon… I promise!
I don’t normally write in depth technical information on this blog but I thought now was the perfect opportunity to document a list of changes that have recently been made to the way the ParkatmyHouse website operates.
For the past three years I have been promoting ParkatmyHouse.com rather than just ParkatmyHouse for the simple reason that we didn’t actually own the parkatmyhouse.co.uk domain. Someone had registered it just a month before I thought of the name and I was under the naive impression that I could offer a token amount to acquire the domain in the future.
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Over the past couple of years, reading the feedback exchanged between ParkatmyHouse.com members has provided an interesting insight in to the relationships between drivers and parking space owners.
“This was my first experience of ParkAtMyHouse, and it was a very good, very easy one. The owner of the land was available, friendly and helpful – AND I got prayed for. Excellent! Thanks” – Parked near Kings Cross
Definitely one of the benefits of parking in a church car park!
“really excellent, would def book again if i’m up that way. VERY helpful! told us quickest way to get to stadium and let us use toilet before and after the concert.” -Â Parked near Wembley Stadium
This is a great example of how adding some additional facilities and advice can make the difference between a happy customer who would go out of their way to leave positive feedback over another who may not be willing to take the time to leave a comment.
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Yesterday Google announced the launch of Street View for the UK which has divided public opinion regarding the perceived invasion of privacy. Personally, I think this tool is fantastic and I’ve been waiting for it to become available this side of the Atlantic since I first tried it out in California a few years ago.
What has this got to do with parking you may ask…?
Well, today ParkatmyHouse.com became the first UK online marketplace (not just parking) to implement street view to enhance our existing service. Not only do we provide you with an availability calendar, pricing information and a secure payment environment to name a few of our features, but we also now let parking space owners show exactly where a driver is going to be parking.
We hope this will remove any doubt on possible size restrictions and the suitability of the area you will be leaving your vehicle. It may also help you find exactly where a parking space is located.
Adding `street view` to your parking space could not be easier. Simply log in to your account and edit your parking space. Under the address tab, you will be able to choose the exact view of your parking space you wish potential parkers to see.
This is a completely `opt-in` service, so anyone with any privacy concerns will simply not have street view functionality available for their parking space listing.
Currently `street view` is available in 12 UK cities and a number of other cities around the world. If it is not currently available in your area, please be patient while the little Google cars work their way around the country.
An example of this implementation is now live around Kings Cross and we expect it to be available in more areas shortly.
A very quick post to announce the introduction of a very useful feature which will reduce the amount of searching you need to do for a parking space.
Embedded in to our parking space search bar is a little calendar icon which when pressed will display two calendars. Simply choose the desired start date of your booking and the end date (if applicable) and we will only show you spaces that are available.
We expect to have more news and feature announcements over the next couple of weeks.
