Person to Person Renting – Rentalic

Posted by the curious monkey on June 3, 2009 in Technology.
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This is cool. Person to person renting, or as Wikipedia refers to it, peer to peer renting, is one person renting something they have to someone else, and vice versa. I mean think of it, we all have a bunch of stuff laying around that we don’t use all the time, and at the same time we have alot of things that we need one in a while that we dont want to buy just for that one time. The solution, rent it. Here’s where Rentalic (Rental In Community) comes in. With a slogan of Rent. Share. Be Green. the company is hoping to provide that perfect solution for person to person renting.

Hoping to create sustainable communities, but promoting reuse and recycling of items amongst the the people who live within an area, this proximity based service seems to be the right answer. All while reducing the overall carbon footprint of the people living in that area.

Rentalic, faced the public for the first time in a soft launch at Maker Faire 2009, in San Mateo CA. The responce was out of this world. People loved the idea and could not wait for the site to go live. The Rentalic website says that it will be going live soon, so here’s to keeping our fingers crossed. In the meanwhile you can pre-register at the site now to make sure you will be one of the first to beta test and use the site.

Update: November 11, 2009
Rentalic is now open for invitation only beta testing. I have some invites if you need some. Just leave me a comment and i’ll email you an invite. They also got a cool video explaining how it all works!



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2 Responses to “Person to Person Renting – Rentalic”

  1. National Bookstore Day : the curious monkey on November 6th, 2009 10:59 am

    [...] wrote about a cool new startup called Rentalic a little while ago. Well this is perfect. People with a whole bunch of books can list their entire [...]

  2. chris on August 8th, 2010 11:26 am

    wow this is awesome. I just borrowed a bunch of video games for really cheap. This website is pretty awesome. Double thumbs up!

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