[Hidden-tech] A Business Idea: a Local Borrowing Exchange

[Rob Laporte]

Excellent, thanks, glad to see the good idea out there already. I tried streetbank, which worked well though few in it around here, and I will look at the others too. I have a feeling more and more people will be needing such resources.


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This exists in the form of apps:
https://www.thegoodneighbourapp.com/
https://sparetoolz.com/
https://www.streetbank.com/splash?locale=en

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On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 11:09 PM Shel Horowitz via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net<mailto:hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>> wrote:
This is a very cool idea, Rob. It would also be worth getting input from the various Buy Nothing groups in the area.

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On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 6:32 PM Rob Laporte via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net<mailto:hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>> wrote:
I’ve long meant to suggest here (and hope I did not already and forgot) for enterprising souls the business idea of making a website for listing things one would loan and borrow locally. If it could be done efficiently, the Uber and Airbnb model of deploying idle capital could apply to the countless things we all have but use rarely, like spray painters, lawn dethatchers, hand-trucks, battery testers that actually work, ladders, coin roll-makers, shop vacs, all kind of tools powered or not, etc. I’ve not given it a lot of thought, and I know there would be issues to manage, not least the revenue model, but just throwing it out there. Perhaps after developing the concept, one could sell it to the likes of NextDoor.com. In this economy, there may be some talent with time to give it more thought.


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