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  • Public bathrooms are such an interesting public services issue. In some places it’s totally normal to pay a small fee, and in return you (usually) get a clean space. In other places, the idea of paying to use the bathroom is considered an offense against the public.

    Years ago when I was in New York often, I had the idea to make a paid bathroom app, with a bit of a luxury twist. You’d pay $30 or whatever a month to have access to 40+ well-designed bathrooms across the city. The idea was that we’d own and operate these, and they’d be extremely well-designed, have beautiful tile interiors, come with a variety of hygiene products, water bottles, and so on.

    I still think it could work, but over time I began to dislike the idea, as it would have been yet another example of the public commons essentially being eroded and replaced with a privatized paid system. Not that NYC public bathrooms are even remotely nice to begin with… but I think a better solution would be less deliberately exclusionary. Then again, what could be more NYC than the idea of paying money to get better things?

    by keiferski
  • It's so randomly weird that a bunch of these are in Utah and I have personally visited them, including one in my neighborhood last week! Some days the Internet is so....local.
    by graupel
  • 3d splatting takes on a different meaning in this context.
    by shireboy
  • George Costanza would be proud
    by ziofill
  • Does anyone have a recommendation for an open source photogrammetry application for Android?
    by computerfriend
  • Hey this is my project. Thanks for sharing
    by jakewelch
  • > https://restroomarchive.com/r/2026-08-31-tri-cities-airport-...

    incredible work. I can only imagine what it was like standing here getting the images, the smell of the must wafting from the corners that haven't been cleaned in a decade, the microbial colonies thriving off pipe condensation above with entire universes of births and deaths and rebirths

    1000/10, every bathroom is an entire story

    by paimapi
  • https://restroomarchive.com/r/2026-08-29-grand-army-plaza-au...

    > has a countdown timer above warning visitors that the door will auto-open in x amount of time.

    A toilet that has a door with a countdown seems like the most stress-inducing thing ever.

    by v9v

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