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.

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

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?

One of my personal favorites is Pavement Paradise [2] documenting American parking spaces.

I'll also shamelessly plug some pictures of gas stations I took last summer :) [3].

[1] https://clui.org/photo-archive

[2] https://clui.org/projects/pavement-paradise

[3] https://henryrobbins.com/artwork/gas-stations/

Now I’m wishing more public spaces inside and out were archived forever like this - imagine we had this 1000/2000/3000 years ago and seeing how it was like back then!

Also obligatory fluffy and sticky floor mat is missing.

Of the many victims of Bernard L. Madoff, the Ponzi scheme mastermind who died in prison April 14, was a visionary entrepreneur: George Costanza, whose app, iToilet, directed its user via global positioning technology to the nearest acceptable public toilet anywhere in the world. Or so runs the plot of the fictional “Seinfeld” reunion.

https://forward.com/culture/467735/george-costanza-lost-it-a...

- would be nice if there was a flag hasBidet = true or false for each of them