Where to launch laundry pickup

What it does

Every quarter: the blocks of your city with the most people aged 20 to 39 and the fewest laundromats and dry cleaners within 1 km, for where to launch laundry pickup first.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Seoul, count who lives around, work out new fields, sort them by young and keep the top 60, count the laundromats, dry cleaners and laundry services within 1 km of each, sort them by nearby_count and keep the top 15, then show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Laundry pickup sells to busy young people with no laundry nearby. This finds where they live.

Who it is for

Home services & trades. Cleaning, plumbing, electrical, pest control, moving and repair businesses filling their vans, winning contracts and planning around the weather. Every use case for home services & trades

Best use cases

• A laundry pickup startup
• A dry cleaning chain
• A home services app

What each run gives you

• A map
• An email

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 90 minutes each time, so it saves about 6 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 9 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. People in every block of the cityxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
4. Young adultsLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
5. Best 60 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
6. Laundries within 1 kmxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
7. The fewest nearby firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
8. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
9. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.

Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.

Use it now

Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.