&gt;<i>I wish there was a startup in this space.
I have so much house maintenance stuff. For example, I only really need a ladder once a year. But I keep it around forever because when you need a ladder, you need a ladder.
I would love to not have to store and maintain all this stuff and to just request it on demand. Can someone solve that for me?</i><p>Actually there is a sorta famous example of a startup that tried to do just that -- or close, they tried to build a social site for people to easily borrow whatever (ladder, chainsaw, etc) from other people in their area.<p>Turns out, most people said it was a great idea and encouraged them, and they even got lots of signups, but people really don&#x27;t like dealing with strangers for such things, and nobody used the service in practice.<p>A, found it:<p><i>&gt;There was just one problem. As Adam Berk, the founder of Neighborrow, puts it: &quot;Everything made sense except that nobody gives a shit. They go buy [a drill]. Or they just bang a screwdriver through the wall.&quot;</i><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;3050775&#x2F;the-sharing-economy-is-dead-and-we-killed-it" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;3050775&#x2F;the-sharing-economy-is-de...</a><p>and<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;entrepreneurship.org&#x2F;resource-center&#x2F;lessons-from-failure-borrowing-tools-from-your-neighbors.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;entrepreneurship.org&#x2F;resource-center&#x2F;lessons-from-fai...</a>