Want to talk to Dan Florio, the GrandPoobah of RunPee?
- The best way to contact me is via email at: polyGeek [ at ] “RunPee”.com.
- Or you can call me - (949) 273.1701
- You can also send me a private/direct message via Twitter: RunPee
- You can leave me a comment below. I do check these things.
- You can peruse our FAQ and see if your question might already be answered there.
- [Or you can feel like a dork by emailing me a question...and then go read the FAQ...where you will realize that your question has already been answered.]
Finally, the FaceBook RunPee page is a great way for you to leave your experiences for other users, and stay on top of our latest “movie break” updates. It’s pretty much our newsletter, and it’s of course free:
- Sign up for the RunPee Fan Page <——— Yes, you.
- Looking for the RunPee iPhone app? Here you go (goes to iTunes; it’s only 99 cents and updates are free): RunPee for iPhones
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….You’re still here? Was there something else you wanted from this page? No? Okay. Have a bunny.
So funny, but very practical! I’ve passed your site along to others! Congrats!
…found the link in Germany. do you only write in Englisch?
I thought this was a joke at first….
is there a newsletter?
@harley, there isn’t a newsletter, yet. But there will be one eventually. Right now I’m just working on improving the site and stuff. And there will be international versions in the future as well. Just hold it a little bit longer.
I think your site is WONDERFUL!!! A friend told me and I’ve told many people and posted it on Facebook as well.
@Emalyn, Thanks so much. That reminds me that I need to get to work on a Facebook app for RunPee.
this is the strangest and funniest app I’ve run across. Keep up the good work!
This is so cool. I’m going to try it tonight at Public Enemy. Last week my friend told me I missed that best part at “The Proposal” when the were doing the indian chanting ….or something. I am always full of a large Starbucks iced coffee so these breaks are important!
Great site, thanx for finally keeping me from holding my pee the whole movie, I will definately recommend this site to all my friends!!!
@Mikey, Thanks! Go Bobcats!!!
Hey – Pee Maestro -
Where are the Harry Potter pee times? I will be seeing it in less than 4 hours, and will need that info! I don’t know if I can hold it much longer…
I saw Harry Potter at 9am EST and came right home to add the PeeTimes. I hope I got them up in time for you. I tried to go to the midnight show last night but it was sold out.
Hi!frist,I think Harry Potter is too long to watch,and you could try to stop drinking water,so, you won’t …however,sometime we also feel that ”Oh! god! I can’t stand any longer !anybody wait a minute OK?” shit, that’s me……
Bloody freakin marvelous idea! Wish I had discovered you before I sat through the whole of the Curious Case of Benjamin Button…the last 45 minutes in bladder distress! I am recommending you to all my pregnant friends!
@Mary, We’ll be here for you from now on. No more bladder distress for you!
is runpee available for blackberry now and will be?
thank you joni
@joni mann, Blackberry is on the list. I’m going to put up a signup sheet soon so that you can be notified when the app is released.
Can you make a website in Chinese?
你们能做一个中文版的网站吗？
The Chinese like movies,too.But in China，there is no website like this in China.
中国人也喜欢看电影。但是在中国没有像这样的网站。
I think my suggention will be helping all of movie fans in China and you will have profit in it.
我认为我的建议能帮助所有的中国影迷，而且你们也会在其中获得利润。
Paul
@PaulLu, I do plan on creating a version for China. I’ll email you so that we can talk about it.
强烈要求做一个中文版的网站！
你们的网站很有创意，作为中国的网友，喜欢你们！I love you，love runpee！
@Ken, thank you very much. Yes, there will be a Chinese version. It probably won’t be ready until late this year but it will definitely happen! Can you hold it until then?
现在runpee在中国很火，用英语说是 IT is very HOT！ 支持你们！
question: might need wi fi for ipod, or iphone internet, may need connection at movie unless it held the info at a hotspot before getting there. apps do update and may download a list of movies playing, when it detects a signal. might be worth 99 cents to play with
@businawreck, Right now you do need access to a data network for the iPhone app to work. RockSoftware is working on updates right now. So local storage will definitely be added to the app but I’m not sure if it will be a part of the first or second update. Worse case scenario is that it will be sometime in September when you can use the app offline.
Harry Potter Half-Blood Prince character is RON not Rob.
@D Erickson, Whoops, fixing it now. Thanks!
GENIUS!!!
Impressive site, but, my pop-up blocker kills the entire page. I have to hold Ctrl+Alt after I start the refresh, and hope it’s quick enough to not get “popped” again.
I think that is due to how the page is formatted.
@LegendsOfBatman, Does your pop-up blocker kill all Flash content? Because the site doesn’t have any popups itself.
Awesome idea, YAY!!! LOVE IT!!!! Thanx, DF!
You are now at the top of my “why didn’t I think of that?” list, right up next to Air in a Can! Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant!
@KaraokeGypsy, There’s more where that came from. Just wait and see.
Bless you! Bless you! Now I can go to the movies again. I slipped out in the middle of the reader and missed the whole transition from a “romance” to the trial. Huge gap! That was enough to make me avoid movies and wait for the dvd to come out. Now I can go back to the theater.
This is one of the most useful websites on the entire Internet! Thanks! Now I can go to movies that are over 2 hours long again.
Oh yeah, by the way… Your header (with the letters filling up with yellow, then the N running out…) is hysterically funny!
@James, thanks. That’s the only thing I didn’t create on the website. I had the idea but not the skills to create the animation. So I paid a friend who is top notch to do it for me and he hit it out of the park. He’s going to retouch it soon with some improvements.
God Bless you! You are a GENIUS. I hope you get RICH from this.
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great idea!talk about thinking outside the box, or in your case, thinking outside the stall…lol! love it, but what i know of seo, you are doing your site a dis-service by being in flash. nothing beats flash for design, but can the search bot pick you up? that may not matter however, since i dont fancy a lot of folks look for this kind of topic, lol. you must get a lot of publicity, though!
@shoo, you’re right there. Flash isn’t great for SEO but it’s much better. Adobe and Google have been working together to create a bot that can search into a Flash site and get the data just like a user would. And in the case of this site there is hardly any content here and none of it really makes any since. The only thing a search bot could target is the nav and the movie titles. But when it comes down to it I don’t know how to make HTML sites like this and I’m not interested in learning. HTML makes my brain hurt.
Hi, I just wanted to tell you that I don’t like
how your entire hompage is generated in flash.
This makes it impossible to change the size of
the fonts on the page. I think this is something
that I would probably change. Thanks. Bye,
Dan
@Daniel Middleman, Thanks for mentioning that. I will include a change font size in RunPee2.
Thanks for the great site. This is really very useful to me. Here are 2 bold predictions: 1) We will see a phenomenon known as “the runpee effect,” where everyone in the theatre gets up at the same time. 2) Writers/ Editers will insert “runpee scenes” into the middle of some films. Thanks again.
@e, Yes, that’s been brought up many times. I even have a funny commercial that I want to shoot around that. But in reality I don’t think that is likely to happen. Even if everyone knew about RunPee there would only be a handful of people that would need to RunPee at any particular PeeTime.
Congratulaltions – great idea!! I love your website and how you have the “n” leaving to go to restroom. Very talented man.
@Karen Mello, thank you. The congratulations for the animated “n” goes to my friend Chad Wixom who did the work for me. I’m smart enough to know that my animation skills are no where near good enough to do what Chad did.
@Polygeek,
Yes it does. It’s an old, but still highly functioning pop-up killer. It kills most flash ads, and, in this case, pages using Flash. It’s actually the only effective ad-killer I have seen. Unfortunately, it can’t distinguish between flash ads and flash sites. Using the white-list does not always work, due to how webpages are named. Using Ctrl+Alt does. But, ocassionally gets annoying.
(I assume there are Flash cookies being used on this site too? Unless they are sitting on a store shelf somewhere, I hate cookies).
At any rate, the page is a pretty cool idea. Just wish my body would figure out how to need to relieve itself at the appointed times. LOL.
@LegendsOfBatman, Yes, there are Flash cookies although I don’t really need them. It’s just there to track whether a visitor has been there before. I used to show a short video walkthrough of the site to first time visitors but not anymore. And if you are registered and want the site to log you in automatically then there’s a Flash cookie for that – technically they are called Remote SharedObjects.
I don’t think I can help you much with training your bladder to obey PeeTimes. Although there may be some Far East mind/bladder control techniques that could work for you.
I would LOVE to be an employee! I can assist yiou with this! Please contact me for further information!!!
@Kandi Dubuque, I would love to be able to afford an employee. In fact, I’d love to be able to move out of my sister’s apartment. Still waiting to make a bit of money. But we’ll talk someday, when RunPee is the go to site for all things movie related.
That’s cool! 你是个天才！
I think I can help you too.we chinese do need such a charming stuff!
may be you can email me
Dan – Maybe you could adapt the app with an ‘end-time’ for those who want to snatch a quick catnap in a movie. Now *that* would be useful!
@Paul, If you set the timer and the vibration before each PeeTime does wake you up – coming soon in an update to the app – then the last PeeTime for a movie lets you know if you need to stick around after the credits for any extra scenes. Or, you could just rely on the cleanup crew to wake you.
Also: perhaps movie theaters could do us all a favor by siting restrooms in – pardon the upcoming pun – a more convenient position. It’s such a
hike to so many of them….
The worst one is the Imax Theater on Chicago’s Navy Pier. You have to actually leave the theater and go to the public restrooms on the pier!!! Granted, most Imax films are less than an hour, but when they screened “Dark Knight” there, I had to miss a sizable chunk of a fantastic movie – LOCATED IN CHICAGO – just because of, um, pisspoor (pun very much intended) theater design. It was so bad, I came very close to peeing into a mop bucket I found in a cleaning closet!!!! Wish I’d done that now……
@PaoloChicago, That is pretty much a complete FAIL.
You bring up a great point in that if you expect you might need to RunPee during a movie you should know beforehand exactly where the restrooms are.
Great site! Just read about it in the LA times and it’s even better than I thought it might be.
What a brilliant website – thank you, thank you, thank you!! I have just put a note on the Multiple Sclerosis website about Runpee.com – full of people that love films more than their bladders!
This website means I can start to enjoy – not endure – films again, thank you!
@Tracey Kesterton, I’m so glad that we can help improve your movie going experience. That really keeps me motivated as I endure watching all these movies.
You need to better target your Google Ads on the page, setup channels. Why do I want to see advertisements for Running web sites. I should be seeing ads for movies, Netflix, Hulu, etc. Not jogging web sites. You need more SEO and Meta Tags. Nice site, but if I can’t find you, who cares? If you never make any money, you won’t stay in business. I did you a solid and clicked on your ads, but it needs some help!
@Mike, yep. We’re just babes in the woods here. I’ve never done much with advertising before so this is all a learning process for me. Fortunately I’m making a little change while learning which is new. Since the site is all Flash it’s hard for Google to target ads. But I’m working on that. Plus forming relationships to get specific ads for movies and such. Most of this will happen with the RunPee2 redesign.
Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you have any suggestions.
Since its Run P – shouldnt you have the P run across the screen rather than n???
@Greg, yeah, but the “n” has legs. How is a “P” going to run? It could hop but that wouldn’t look right.
Actually, the guy who did the animation for me is going to create another one where the descender on the “P” splits and runs off. We’ll then randomly cycle through the different animations.
Great site! Can’t wait for your European Editions in French or German. Today one of Europes largest weekly magazines has published an article about your website including a link http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,643651,00.html. Server already running pee, eh, hot?
@Kolja, me to. Translating the site to German and French is a high priority. I can’t wait.
This is just the greatest idea – kudos to the brains behind this. My friends and I, older and younger love this concept as very few of us can make it through a movie if we have a soda and popcorn without having to go to the loo. Thanks a million.
I listen to Jane’s show at http://www.thejaneellen.com all the time. I heard you on Monday and just had to check out your site. The is an awesome idea. I will be telling my friends about RunPee. Keep up the good work.
Good work Jordon Palmer.
@Rondell, Thanks. Jordan has done a great job promoting the site. He’s taken the idea places I never, ever, could have gone.
Saw your website on HBO’s Hard Knocks with the Cincinnati Bengals. Jordan Palmer was plugging it on the show and I decided to check it out. Great idea, I hope it continues to be successful. I think the more people know about it, the more they will enjoy it.
This might be a useful site if it could be viewed from a phone in the theater, since its not. SITE FAIL
@Matt, the site is accessible from the theater – if you have the iPhone app or soon the Android or Blackberry app. The site was built with Flash because I’m a Flash developer and that’s all I know how to build. Here’s more info on why the site is in Flash: Why RunPee is Built Using Flash and Not HTML
I’m ready to buy your Android app. Where is it?
I’m was told by the dev that it should be ready in about 7 days.
What happened to the Android app? I can’t find it on the market. The link on your site is broken. What happened?!
What happened to the old style chart that was accessible on the website? I don’t want an app.
@Allen You’re probably best suited with using m.RunPee.com then. And you know that the big smartphone thingy in the upper-left of the website is interactive, right? You can use it to browse all the movies/peetimes.
Don’t see an interactive smartphone thingy anywhere. May be my browser or OS. Anyway, m.runpee.com works for what I need. Thanks.
I am 57 years of age and this is why I love the internet. At my age, pee breaks are necessary
Thanks!
I really injoy runpee but more importantly I hope that Jordan Palmer will be able to compete for the starting position. I know he has a good arm I just hope he gets his chance, because he can be just as good as his brother maybe better. Pass that along to him if you could and whodey.
Hey
Loving your work, as always. I just wanted to say I think since the site changed it has become less user friendly. It isn’t even easy to find the peetimes. I use Google to seach for “runpee.com” together with the name of the movie I want to see.
@Lou The peetimes are in a widget in the upper-left of every page. Do you have Flash and Javascript enabled? If you’re just looking for the peetimes it might be easiest to use m.RunPee.com as long as the movie hasn’t been out for more than 6 months or so.