Finding cheap parking on game days in a college town is a unique frustration most southerners know well. A Birmingham startup aims to ease that process.

Five friends have started SpotMine, an app that wants to be a marketplace for parking spots on college football game days. Right now they're operating in Tuscaloosa and Athens, Georgia on football game days, but they're planning to move into other college towns soon.

"Our initial plans are to pursue parking opportunities for college game days, high school game days, special events like concerts and fundraisers and any other opportunities we feel like present a great opportunity for us to bring value to buyers and sellers," said Mark Hume, a financial adviser by day and one of the company. "Right now we're pursuing football for obvious reasons."

The app aims to make both selling and buying parking spots easier. If you're looking for parking, you can see what's available, where, for how much money without driving through game day traffic. If you've got a driveway you don't need to use on Fall Saturdays, you can list it on the app for however much you want.

Currently, most spots listed on the app are either offices with parking lots or individuals with parking spots in their yards or driveways.

"If you had a house and it had a yard and a driveway you could theoretically rent out those spaces," Hume said. "We let the sellers set their price, we're more of a marketplace."

SpotMine makes its money by charging a transaction fee, which operates on a sliding scale.

The app is available in the App Store and Google Play. The App went live three weeks ago after the company was officially incorporated in June.