Parking Made Easy
Daniel Battaglia
Parking Made Easy (founded in 2011, Sydney, Australia) and Parking Cupid (founded in 2013, San Francisco, United States of America) by Daniel Battaglia are online membership based marketplaces for renting parking and garage spaces, covering vehicles, vessels, and aircrafts alike. The platform offers two kinds of use—free and paid.
The marketplace went live as a free beta in 2012 and was first profiled in the Sydney Morning Herald that same year. Daniel had the idea about the venture after he returned to Sydney after travelling the world, only to notice empty driveways and garages, yet no parking facility for him to use them. He started the website from his desk at at a co-working office space, hoping the word of mouth would be enough for the business to take off—and it did.
However, the road to success wasn't smooth. Serving Australia wide the online classifieds marketplace for parking, Parkin