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

Sun Sep 20 14:09:53 UTC 2020

Finally getting around to replying with my thanks for all the resources here. Wish I knew which was best but will investigate when I have time.

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

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<mailto:shel at principledprofit.com>> wrote:
A new friend in Portland (Oregon) is using NextDoor very effectively for environmental organizing. https://albertideation.com/neighborhoodnotes Rob, LMK if you'd like an intro.

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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<mailto:hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>> wrote:
Would this work effectively on the Nextdoor website which is already operational in the area?

Harry

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On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 8:00 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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