{"id":11661,"date":"2023-09-24T12:37:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T10:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/24\/dan-gardner-wanted-to-know-when-to-go-to-the-loo-during-films-so-he-built-an-app\/"},"modified":"2023-09-24T12:37:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T10:37:38","slug":"dan-gardner-wanted-to-know-when-to-go-to-the-loo-during-films-so-he-built-an-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/24\/dan-gardner-wanted-to-know-when-to-go-to-the-loo-during-films-so-he-built-an-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan Gardner wanted to know when to go to the loo during films \u2013 so he built an app"},"content":{"rendered":"

The developer of RunPee, the app that tells cinemagoers the best time to take a loo break, on what makes a good \u2018peetime\u2019 and how the program helped him meet his wife<\/p>\n

Created out of personal necessity by North Carolina-based developer Dan Gardner during a near three-and-a-half-hour King Kong<\/em> screening, RunPee<\/a> is an app<\/a> that tells film audiences the best times to nip to the loo.<\/p>\n

Where did the idea <\/strong>come from?
<\/strong>By the end of Peter Jackson\u2019s 201-minute King Kong<\/em> in 2005, I was in agony because I needed the loo. As we were leaving, I wanted to tell the people in the line to see the next show about the scene with giant bugs in the middle of the movie \u2013 perfect for a bathroom break. Of course, I didn\u2019t say that to strangers at the movie theatre, but I\u2019m a developer, so I thought I could make a website. This was before mobile apps were a thing. I bought the domain runpee.com, but then I got a job at Microsoft on its Xbox team so I didn\u2019t do anything about this for the next few years. In 2008, I became a freelance developer and built RunPee as a demonstration app I could show to clients.<\/p>\n

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\nThe developer of RunPee, the app that tells cinemagoers the best time to take a loo break, on what makes a good \u2018peetime\u2019 and how the program helped him meet his wife
\nCreated out of personal necessity by North Carolina-based developer Dan Gardner during a near three-and-a-half-hour King Kong screening, RunPee is an app that tells film audiences the best times to nip to the loo.
\nWhere did the idea come from?By the end of Peter Jackson\u2019s 201-minute King Kong in 2005, I was in agony because I needed the loo. As we were leaving, I wanted to tell the people in the line to see the next show about the scene with giant bugs in the middle of the movie \u2013 perfect for a bathroom break. Of course, I didn\u2019t say that to strangers at the movie theatre, but I\u2019m a developer, so I thought I could make a website. This was before mobile apps were a thing. I bought the domain runpee.com, but then I got a job at Microsoft on its Xbox team so I didn\u2019t do anything about this for the next few years. In 2008, I became a freelance developer and built RunPee as a demonstration app I could show to clients. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The developer of RunPee, the app that tells cinemagoers the best time to take a loo break, on what makes a good \u2018peetime\u2019 and how the program helped him meet his wife Created out of personal necessity by North Carolina-based developer Dan Gardner during a near three-and-a-half-hour King Kong screening, RunPee is an app that …<\/p>\n

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