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

Tue Aug 18 17:21:17 UTC 2020

per your discussion below - there is plenty of this type of sharing
activity on Nextdoor. There are also Buy Nothing Project groups on FB that
help with this. And Be Neighborly groups there, too.  At least in
Portlandia.

Albert

On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 7:32 PM Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com>
wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 5:40 PM Harry Flood via Hidden-discuss <
> hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
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>> Would this work effectively on the Nextdoor website which is already
>> operational in the area?
>>
>> Harry
>>
>> *Harry J Flood*
>> Chief Financial Officer
>> Mediaspectrum, Inc.
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 8:00 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.
>>>
>>> Take Care,
>>>
>>>
>>> Rob Laporte
>>>
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