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

[Scott Reed]

I think a lot of people wouldn't want to be tied up in scheduling pick ups and drop offs at their homes and dealing with recovering the distributed cost of repairs when stuff breaks. So I assume that to be successful there needs to be a central storage, distribution and repair location, e.g. a makerspace. So it looks like a cooperative equipment rental business where members can pay for their membership with equipment and/or money. I think that would fly.

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From: Rob Laporte via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2020 6:32 PM
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Subject: [Hidden-tech] A Business Idea: a Local Borrowing Exchange

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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