In my neighborhood we all borrow each others gear, whether it&#x27;s home improvement stuff, or occasionally used outdoor sports gear.  Any startup in this space would have to establish the &quot;trust&quot; feature of a sharing community, which is a feature that a friendly neighborhood has built-in.<p>You might be on to something if you find an easy way for people to publish their inventory of stuff to a trusted group of neighbors,  maybe with a smartphone app to take pics of the gear?  That way you leverage the trust that already exists, and just make the publishing and discovery process easier.<p>We use Nextdoor and our street&#x27;s email mailing list for this all the time.<p>EDIT: Nextdoor and email lists only provide the in-group communication solution, not the inventory solution.  It would be interesting to see an inventory solution that worked with a variety of communication services.