• Swimmy currently has 120,000 subscribers, fans of private pool rentals.

  • The start-up relies on a quality offer and wants to allow its users to spend time in small groups, for birthdays, bachelor parties or bachelorette parties.

  • The coronavirus crisis has not slowed down its development.

    Since deconfinement, reservations have accelerated.

The idea of ​​renting out your pool to strangers may sound crazy, but Swimmy has shown that people are interested in the concept.

The private pool rental market has found its supply and demand.

The start-up has continued to grow since it was founded in 2017 by Raphaëlle de Monteynard.

Before taking the plunge, she was working in communication.

While she was tanning with girlfriends around a friend's swimming pool, the idea emerges between them: “We realized that at the neighbors, the swimming pools around us were empty, and we got together. said it would be great if they could benefit other people.

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Crazy bet, successful bet

To test her idea, Raphaëlle de Monteynard contacted more than 400 swimming pool owners and realized that the approach was too abstract. “I felt that until the idea was known and marketed, I wouldn't be able to know if it was working or not. So she did. And it took. In the first summer, Swimmy registers 1,800 potential tenants and 30 owners, for a result of 60 transactions. “At that time, I said to myself that if there were 1,800 tenants, there could be 3,000, and that if there were 30 owners there could be 100. It was still a gamble, but I decided. said I could try it. "

The followers are now much more numerous.

Two hundred and thirty owners offer their swimming pool for rent in Île-de-France.

With 120,000 registered on the site and 40,000 reservations expected this summer, Swimmy is also expanding internationally.

Well established in Spain, the service is also taking its first steps in Italy, Germany and the United States.

“We also appreciate the barbecue option!

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Dominique Courtines and her husband, retired, have been renting their swimming pool on Swimmy for three years. With a large garden, a pool house, a tennis court, a trampoline and a heated swimming pool since this winter, their offer in the Yvelines is more attractive than a simple swimming pool. Swimmy wishes to offer tenants a quality moment. It often happens that tenants choose the Dominique Courtines swimming pool for birthdays, bachelor parties or bachelor parties, or even for photo shoots. The Courtines couple are most often present when they rent their swimming pool, but have another terrace and sufficient space to preserve their privacy and that of the tenants. Since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, enthusiasts have been all the more numerous.

Sonia Andrian, nursing assistant in Val-d'Oise and mother of two children, discovered Swimmy after the first confinement, a year ago.

The proposed hygiene and privacy conditions reassured her.

In order to avoid "too much contact" and to take advantage of a moment in a small committee, she prefers Swimmy to the municipal swimming pool.

But it is also a story of encounters.

Rather than testing other places, she returned from the beginning to the same owners, with whom she sympathized.

It is also a practical choice for her, since the swimming pool in question is a thirty-minute drive from her home in Ermont.

“We also appreciate the barbecue option!

»She wishes to clarify.

A start-up with the wind in its sails

Since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, Swimmy has continued to grow although it is difficult to distinguish the effect of health measures on its progression: “In May 2020, reservations were multiplied by 10 compared to May 2019, and in June 2021, it is thought to multiply by 7 in comparison with June 2020. “In total, in 2020, the start-up generated 1.5 million euros in turnover, and hopes to triple this figure in 2021.

On average, owners earn 1,300 euros per season by renting their pool ten times.

For the most popular, this can represent 5,000 to 10,000 euros per year.

Dominique Courtines receives around 300 euros per rental day, which is not negligible “to maintain his swimming pool”.

As for tenants, they pay an average of 18 euros per half-day.

On these sums, the platform takes a commission of 17% for owners, and 20% for tenants.

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