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Show HN: List stuff to borrow for your people, anonymously (toolpool.garden)

5 points by oliviasculley ↗ HN
Hey yall, I built this for my makerspace. We wanted to let each other borrow things, but also didn't want to put up a big shiny sign saying "hey everyone, my garage has a super fancy oscilloscope just sitting there" and also didn't want to necessarily always need to say yes to everything.

However, when I show it to people, they've been suggesting using it for other things like board games, or wedding equipment, etc. I'm still trying to find PMF, so please let me know what you think!

For the stack, it's all Elixir + LiveView which is really nice, and then Fly.io, Fly's MPG, Tigris Data, Cloudflare, Sentry, Mailjet, and Gitlab + self-hosted runners.

Also, if you'd like a refrigerator magnet, please let me know :)

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pavel_lishin
> Anonymous by default, Reveal button on purpose

It feels that something like this should run on trust above all else. If I'm letting my neighbors borrow my stuff - or asking to borrow their stuff - I don't think I'd particularly want anonymity on either end. (Not the least because maybe I probably don't want to borrow a tool from Richie the Racist who lives down the block.)

SummSolutions
Cool idea. I’m curious how that pricing structure is working for you - one person paying monthly for unlimited members in a group? I could see an HOA taking that on for a neighborhood though, and a place where this would be very useful.