Porch envy, solved: get POORCH!

A porch-sharing app for porch-deprived rockers and swingers.

Jul 12, 2025

Another empty porch sits waiting for someone to sit on it.

THE PROBLEM: Many people who love porches don’t have a porch.

Meanwhile, the people who have porches are never there enjoying them.

Porches are becoming a vestige of a shamefully soft way of life.

They’re an empty, phantom protrusion of relaxation and neighborly friendliness that no one with a porch seems to have time for anymore.

THE SOLUTION: POORCH!

Poorch is a new porch-sharing app by Hermette Industries that will help the porch-endowed give their unused porches the use they deserve by offering hourly rentals to the porch-poor.

For the porch-wealthy, your porch will be giving people the enjoyment you imagined a porch would give you (before you realized you’d be working all the time and never home to enjoy it).

Why not spread happiness by letting happy people hang out on your unused porch?

It’s a friendly feeling, seeing people on porches. It makes the whole neighborhood feel jolly.

Want to earn extra income? Build a poorch.

For the porch-poor, (in the app they can choose to be called Swingers or Rockers), POORCH will let you hang out on porches wherever you are, living out your porch dreams without having to purchase and take care of a whole house when all you want is the porch.

Just open the POORCH app, wander around a neighborhood and click on the map to reserve available POORCHES near you, wherever you are.

Screened-in, wrap-around, front, back, side, sleeping… every kind of porch can find its lover on POORCH.

Hanging ferns, gliders, swings, geraniums, the screened door’s slam…

We all long for more porch culture in our lives.

POORCH can be a game-changer for neighborhoods everywhere.

See you out there. Investors, let’s party.

P.S. Check out this excellent brief history of porches from the weirdly fascinating, sometimes disturbing Henry Ford Museum.