Almost three months after launching in the Illawarra, a company that lets people rent out vacant car spaces appears to have just two customers in the region.
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Divvy launched its website in Wollongong on March 4.
The site allows people to lease out their driveway, garage or car space on a weekly or monthly basis.
After starting up in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, Wollongong was Divvy's first effort at entering a regional market.
To date it appears the response has been less than overwhelming.
The site allows people to search for spaces for rent within a 30-minute walking distance from a set location.
In the entire Wollongong CBD and surrounding area, there is just one parking space for rent - in an apartment block in Market Place.
That space was only placed on the site last week.
Perhaps the suburb most in need of parking places is Thirroul, where residents and businesses complain about streets being taken over by rail commuters parking in the streets all day.
Yet a search of the Divvy site shows no spaces for rent within a 30-minute walk of the station.
It's the same story for the key rail hub station at Helensburgh.
In fact, searches through a number of other suburbs in the Illawarra failed to uncover another parking space for rent.
The only other suburb the Mercury could find with a space to rent was in Bridge Street, Coniston.
When the site launched in March, Divvy CEO Nick Austin had high hopes for the company in Wollongong.
"The key reason for selecting Wollongong is parking is such an issue, and it has all the physical hallmarks for this solution to work really well," Mr Austin said.
"It has major transport hubs which have a lot of commuters coming daily to travel out of Wollongong.
"Also there are a lot of residential houses around those areas where the parking is sitting vacant during the day."
Mr Austin was contacted for comment for this story.
