I built a free restroom finder with community cleanliness ratings - here's why Google Maps kept failing people in urgent moments
I've been in that moment. You're 30 seconds from a situation and Google Maps shows you a restroom that hasn't been reviewed in 4 years.
So I built Got to Go Potty - a real-time restroom and gas station finder that pulls live location data and lets people rate cleanliness, safety, wheelchair access, and baby changing stations after each visit.
The ratings aren't pulled from some database. They're left by people who were just there, in the same desperate spot you're in right now.
What surprised me: the first users to leave reviews weren't tech people. They were parents with toddlers. Road trippers. People with IBD who've turned restroom-hunting into a survival skill.
That's the community I'm trying to build - people who leave a 30-second review so the next stranger doesn't have to gamble.
No login required to search. Completely free.
Curious if anyone here has actually had a bad experience using Google Maps or Apple Maps to find a restroom in an urgent situation - and what you wished you'd had instead.