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6 points by kzisme ↗ HN
I've been living in Denver for a few years and the prices for simple airport rides are kind of crazy.

In an effort to build/expand community - I built Airport Swap. It is a platform to exchange rides to/from the airport _for free_. Give a ride to get a ride!

Airport Swap is was built with the intention of building (or finding) community or relying on a circle of trust to choose drivers/riders (friends of friends pretty much). Connecting people on their street, in their building, or from a board game group they attended before is the goal.

Looking for any feedback :)

Cheers!

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thinkling
Interesting! Seems like this could very easily be generalized. Tool sharing/swapping, ditto for books, rides to things other than the airport, etc. E.g. on the latter: some medical procedures like colonoscopies (basically anything that involves general anaesthesia) require you to have someone pick you up at the end, you're not allowed to take a Lyft home. That seems highly viable for trading favors, though hard to build trust on unless it's part of a larger sharing network.
chocoboaus3
I'll be honest, when I first loaded the site I was thinking wait is this app basically saying its people sharing their private jet time?

but then I read it more in depth and understood. I do wonder if the the naming could be a bit different. just my 2c

kzisme
Yeah, initially I was going to go with "Airport Exchange" but that domain was taken - this one was available and fairly straightforward without being too long. Thanks for the input!
harambae
Looks cool. I've used BlaBlaCar (paid carpooling) in Europe a few times to get to difficult to reach ski resorts and such. I wish we had that here in the US.