Potluck: What if we could exchange our resources without needing money or barter?
kev nguyen
Potluck: What if we could exchange our resources without needing money or barter?
If you have a community of people looking to offer gifts, how do we coordinate that going to the right people? This question came to mind as I was working with a mutual aid in San Diego.
We put out a form asking what gifts people would want to contribute and received over 500 responses with offerings ranging from a drum set, a kid's bicycle, a remote therapy session, and so much more. There were so many latent resources and generosity in our community that we didn't have a way to coordinate.
I had already been inspired by the indigenous practice of Potlatch, and along with that this motivated me to start building Potluck, a coordination tool that allows someone to add an offering, select what they would want in return (if anything), and then automatically be told who to give an item to and who to receive something from.
I will demo the app: Potluck to quickly teach the process of math trades. I will also talk about possible future features and upgrades for the demo. (For folks who want to dive deep into the algorithm that finds trades, check out TradeMaximizer.)
Potluck: What if we could exchange our resources without needing money or barter?
If you have a community of people looking to offer gifts, how do we coordinate that going to the right people? This question came to mind as I was working with a mutual aid in San Diego.
We put out a form asking what gifts people would want to contribute and received over 500 responses with offerings ranging from a drum set, a kid's bicycle, a remote therapy session, and so much more. There were so many latent resources and generosity in our community that we didn't have a way to coordinate.
I had already been inspired by the indigenous practice of Potlatch, and along with that this motivated me to start building Potluck, a coordination tool that allows someone to add an offering, select what they would want in return (if anything), and then automatically be told who to give an item to and who to receive something from.
I will demo the app: Potluck to quickly teach the process of math trades. I will also talk about possible future features and upgrades for the demo. (For folks who want to dive deep into the algorithm that finds trades, check out TradeMaximizer.)