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

Mon Aug 17 17:08:38 UTC 2020

In some places, Public Libraries have added tool libraries (and toys, and ipods etc...).  That's what they do: organize, maintain and share resources for a community.   Keene has a gardening focused one: Seed And Tool Lending Library | City of Keene

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-Garth Shaneyfelt
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    On Monday, August 17, 2020, 12:20:59 PM EDT, Rich at tnr via Hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:  

What you are proposing is basically a 'tool bank' and has been farily developed in a number of places.
 I collected a few reference at:  http://www.hidden-tech.net/project/toolbanks/
 I'd especially note that the idea has  be more developed beyond just a name, it's been trademarked and there is a supporting non-profile

It's a topic of interest I've been looking at for some time, esp with the (literals) tons of useful items stacked in people's garages, I know I've got a bunch.

 A question in my mind relates to where they are stored and how maintained, esp the range from who cares to need maintained and very valuable.

If anyone is seriously interested, I'd be.

I did see Home Depot helped fund, what Toolbanks in Atlanta, developed into Toolbanks USA non-profit: http://www.toolbank.org/
 also if there is really a project that fits NextDoor, I actually know some of the VC funders and would be interested in taking to them about it.

 A few related topics I'll post separately.

( for those of interest, I'll be adding more resources of interest at: http://www.hidden-tech.net/project_category/resources/

Stay Safe - Rich

 On 8/16/2020 11:50 AM, Rob Laporte via Hidden-discuss wrote:

 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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  On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 11:09 PM Shel Horowitz via Hidden-discuss <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> 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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