I am a Japanese computer science student studying at KTH.

I built this site bacause I found the process of selling unnecessary, if the intent is to then purchase another item with the money you made from selling your item. Exchanging can save your time and money, while receiving a product of your interest – just like selling and buying, but in a single streamline.

I would appreciate if you could take a look at it and provide some feedbacks, and if you like the site sharing with other people would be really helpful.

Thank you.

by Skit1177

21 comments

  1. Neat site! I would perhaps add a “Location” and “Delivery ways (Meet in person / shipping etc)” feature when the user is searching for items.

    Edit: I saw you have no search bar for now. My bad!

  2. The concept of having to find somebody with an item you want that also want an item of yours that he values roughly the same seems extremely inconvenient. We invented money for a reason..!

  3. We already have that for bikes in our university cities. Everyone can take whichever bike they need. 

    For everything else we can use your site. Great job and enjoy Sweden!

  5. How will this save you time and money? To find someone else who has what you want and are willing to exchange will take a lot of time and they will probably live far away too which will take even more time and gas money.

  6. 素敵なサイトですよ。ありがとうございます。

  8. With Blocket, Tradera (both taking a cut from the selling price) and Facebook (don’t want to use Facebook), it felt like Sweden always was behind other countries where websites like these are present and popular. This looks like a good solution, thanks!

    What are your plans to promote this, keep the website up and running and to earn some money?

  9. Would love to see this trend grow into something big. Think of the potential with a large user base. In this world of superabundance I could see it become an addictive pastime to search for fun items and try to make profitable deals.

    [Best of luck!](https://youtu.be/LF4QX2Rx0lI?si=qUqWvvwvBFW5WJWP)

  11. めっちゃいい！ロッピスが大好きなスウェーデン人には合いますね。アプリはこれからですか。

  14. What stack, where is deployed? Using k8s or a classic LEMP stack on a VPS?

  15. Grym sida ju. Kul att så många har lagt upp grejer. Jag har dock ett förbättringsförslag:
    Jag scrollade långt mer och gick in på en annons. När jag sedan gick ut hamnade jag högst upp på listan igen, och de tog ett tag att scrolla hela vägen ner igen. Skulle vara gött om man kom till samma plats som man hittade annonsen på!
    Super initiativ. Ska försöka komma på något att lägga upp själv

  16. Neat Idea but totally illegal since countries rely on VAT to finance a Big part of their budgets…allowing people or compabies to trade goods without money means no tax can be collected..and the country goes bankrupt..works on small scale between neighbours maybe

  17. Haven’t looked at the site yet, but something tells me that OP isn’t a fan of 1177.se.

  19. I love the initiative but, the reason why Blocket went from a free service into a paid service was the amount of scams occurring on a free trading website.

    Having people monitoring and checking the legitimacy of sellers isn’t free and eventually it must become a paid service just to have that safety for buyers.

    There are still scummy buyers tho, you know “Can I hold this just to check it out?” then run like wind.

  20. Theres a swedish app for this named Klonk, not sure if they are still in business though.

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