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Sharetribe is an open source software platform for creating your own online marketplace in the spirit of Airbnb, Uber or eBay.
'''= platform for creating customized sharing sites for physical or virtual communities'''


URL = http://www.sharetribe.com/
URL = http://www.sharetribe.com/


=Description=
=Description=


"Everyone can go to our site and create their own “tribe”, a peer-to-peer marketplace just for their community - whether it’s a sports club, neighborhood, university, congregation or a company. It’s essentially the Ning model applied to the sharing economy.
Sharetribe's software makes it easy for anyone to create their own online marketplace platform in one day, even without technical skills. It can be used by platform co-operatives, associations, individuals, startups, cities and municipalities, among others. The software is currently best suited for creating peer-to-peer marketplaces, like Airbnb or eBay, where individuals exchange goods or services, but it can also be used to create B2C marketplaces, where small professional providers offer their services to their customers.


These marketplaces are highly customizable: people can change the texts, logos and soon also the colors to match the look & feel of their community. They can get their own domain. They can keep the tribe open for everyone or make it private and only let people in with invites, or with certain email address (like .edu). People can choose whether they want to share only goods, services, rides or spaces, or even all of them. The platform can be used for lending, renting, selling and swapping. It’s really up for the people to decide what and how they want to share.
Sharetribe's codebase is licensed with MIT license, which allows both commercial and non-commercial use of the software. The software can be downloaded from GitHub: https://github.com/sharetribe/sharetribe


All this makes the people feel it’s really their own thing - a place where they feel like home. By giving local admins the tools to invite new members and manage the community, we can solve the two big problems of the sharing economy - having enough traction in the area just around you, and creating trust between people.
=Business Model=


Here are just two examples of how Sharetribe is used today in various different contexts: a single parents network from Oakland, a private group with only 50 members, and Aalto University campus in Helsinki, with almost 5000 members. We already have almost 400 tribes started all over the world, and the number is growing every day."
Sharetribe's software is maintained and developed mainly by a company called Sharetribe Ltd, majority of which is owned by its founders and employees. The business model of the company is similar to the business model of Automattic, the company developing WordPress. The company offers hosting of the software for those who don't want to touch the code at all or run their own servers, and charges a monthly fee for the hosting service.
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/using-tribes-to-enable-sharing-within-offline-networks)


By the end of 2016, Sharetribe Ltd had more than 600 individuals and organizations hosting their marketplaces on its paid version. There are no exact statistics on how widely the open source version is used, but by the end of 2016 it had been forked more than 600 times and it got downloaded on average 50 times per week.


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Latest revision as of 20:43, 15 March 2017

Sharetribe is an open source software platform for creating your own online marketplace in the spirit of Airbnb, Uber or eBay.

URL = http://www.sharetribe.com/

Description

Sharetribe's software makes it easy for anyone to create their own online marketplace platform in one day, even without technical skills. It can be used by platform co-operatives, associations, individuals, startups, cities and municipalities, among others. The software is currently best suited for creating peer-to-peer marketplaces, like Airbnb or eBay, where individuals exchange goods or services, but it can also be used to create B2C marketplaces, where small professional providers offer their services to their customers.

Sharetribe's codebase is licensed with MIT license, which allows both commercial and non-commercial use of the software. The software can be downloaded from GitHub: https://github.com/sharetribe/sharetribe

Business Model

Sharetribe's software is maintained and developed mainly by a company called Sharetribe Ltd, majority of which is owned by its founders and employees. The business model of the company is similar to the business model of Automattic, the company developing WordPress. The company offers hosting of the software for those who don't want to touch the code at all or run their own servers, and charges a monthly fee for the hosting service.

By the end of 2016, Sharetribe Ltd had more than 600 individuals and organizations hosting their marketplaces on its paid version. There are no exact statistics on how widely the open source version is used, but by the end of 2016 it had been forked more than 600 times and it got downloaded on average 50 times per week.

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