Ideas

Here is a good use case from Craigslist:

It's taken eight years and probably over $3,000 worth of parking tickets (that's right, $375 per year), but I'm finally fed up with the whole city parking gestapo. I've gotten tickets for expired meters, broken meters, wheels not being turned properly on a barely-inclined street, street cleaning; I've read way too many sections of the California Vehicular Code to understand what the hell rules have been imposed upon me by unseen forces. And I've accepted the first such ticket for each new rule as tuition for learning the game -- fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

Assuming we have a volunary submission database of license plates and contact info... are there any other uses besides contacting owner if vehicle is parked in the wrong location? (Just seems like there might be other interesting tangents to explore.)

How about teaming-up to maintain parking meter payments? Like if you see a meter is about to expire you can pay-it-up, and then enter the payment into db for some sort of karma?

Any other tangents I'm over looking?

-g

Great idea. Yes - in my area tons of cars get their windows broken. People who are parked for a few days might not know about this but would want to be notified. You really could let people know any issues related to their parked car.

With text messaging it could be instant like "Dude there's some sketchy activity near your car..." Of course, the owner could be the sketchy one, but that just might be funny.
Or, "A car is parked on your bumper." Something you might want to come photograph.

There also needs to be thought around if the car is one of the few that isn't registered with Ticket Blaster ;)

Such as users have an inbox telling you which license plates you reported which weren't registered...so you don't think the person isn't just ignoring you.

And the site could have a little cool sticker to indicate you're participating. I was thinking when you join you can make or get cards to do a referral to the site, that you could leave on cars that got tickets.

Business Model: How about $ to register your car. Free to sign up to notify and get karma $, even if you don't register a car?

The service is "protection" for cars so the more people who sign up the better. In urban areas many people don't have cars or use car shares and it would be better for Ticket Blaster the more Watch Dogs there are.

very practical...this can be done my state basis at least.