Boston Area~Find a Parking Spot Instantly~App ....

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A new parking app that lets users seek out unused spaces around the Boston area, so they can rent them hourly, daily, or even monthly, officially launched on Thursday, and the founders of the innovative smartphone technology are already eyeing an expansion to other major cities across the country.

The SPOT app, which Boston first wrote about in March, when it was still in the planning stages, is described by the company’s CEO, Braden Golub, as the “airbnb of the parking industry,” due to its ability to connect residents in Brookline, Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville instantly with drivers scrambling to find a place to park their vehicles.

“In today’s exploding sharing-based economy, companies like Uber and airbnb are proving that there is a tremendous market in peer-to-peer transactions—we’re just aggregating a city’s private parking spot inventory and making it readily accessible,” said Golub, who recently secured advisors to help guide the company’s direction.

Golub, a Back Bay resident, first came up with the idea for SPOT after getting frustrated that he could never find a public parking space for his fiance when she visited.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/12/11/spot-parking-app-launches-in-boston/