The car wash that comes to the car

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Here's a quiet truth about parking: the car just sits there. Two hours, four hours, a whole working day, doing nothing.

What if, while it sits, someone washes it?

That's the last role in ParkEase. A driver books a wash for the car they've just parked, and a local car washer comes to it. Yesterday you saw how ParkEase decides which washer gets the job when three of them tap at once. Today, the washer's side.

Four things you can do as a car washer (the video is thirty seconds)

1. Set your own menu.
Basic exterior, premium, full detailing: switch on the washes you offer, and set a car price and a bike price for each, plus how long it takes. Your menu, your prices.

2. Go online, and jobs come to you.
Flip one switch and nearby wash jobs appear, each with what you'll earn, how far away the car is, and how long the wash takes. A countdown shows how long the offer stays open.

3. Before and after photos.
Accept a job and it's yours. A before photo unlocks Start washing; an after photo finishes the job. No photo, no wash, so a driver always has proof of the car's condition on both sides.

4. Every wash, line by line.
Your earnings show each completed wash: the service price, the ParkEase fee, and what you earned. If a wash was cancelled after you accepted it, the take-back is listed too, not hidden in a total.

That's the whole washer app today.

And that's the cast

Four roles, four apps in one: the owner with an empty parking spot, the driver circling the block, the valet who parks for you, and the washer who cleans the car while it waits. Every one of them was filmed from the real app, not mocked up in a design tool.

Next: everything so far ends with "what you earned". But earned isn't paid. The next update is the moment money actually leaves ParkEase and lands in an owner's bank account, and every way that can go wrong in between. Follow the series. Launch is close.

ParkEase is a peer-to-peer parking marketplace for India, launching soon on Android.
Music: ende.app (CC BY 4.0)