Sharetribe

= platform for creating customized sharing sites for physical or virtual communities

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

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.

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.

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.

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." (http://www.shareable.net/blog/using-tribes-to-enable-sharing-within-offline-networks)