From ParkingCupid.com to Parksy: How a Valentine's Day Joke Became a Real Business
The Name Was a Joke. A Genuinely Good Joke, But Still a Joke.Here's how it happened.Thirty Countries and the Same Broken ProblemI'd been travelling extensively for years — solo trips through 30-plus countries, major cities across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. And in almost every single one of them, the same scene played out: streets clogged with people circling for parking solutions, driveways sitting empty, signs that contradicted each other, fines for things that were impossible to have known were wrong.