Why aren't there more rental apps for renting personal items?<p>I have some DJ equipment sitting around that I would like to rent out to fellow DJ's. I did some googling, and only came up with peerrenters (which I cannot find the US App Store) and Zilok (which has no app, and is online only). Then I found frntal which seems promising. Then this article (with a clickbaity title), but has some good information on why renting personal items isn't a thing.<p>https://www.fastcompany.com/3050775/the-sharing-economy-is-dead-and-we-killed-it<p>Thoughts?
Sharing economy is usually supply side constrained. There needs to be enough incentive for the "seller". If you are renting your mower for $20, the $ benefit is way lower than renting your house.<p>An acquaintance of mine setup <a href="http://www.rentoid.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rentoid.com/</a> a looong time ago and I never asked but this is probably the reason.<p>What I saw was professional hire companies using the site as leadgen because it was free advertising and they had lots of inventory. Makes sense right?<p>So the sharing economy had problems a long time before fastcompany shared its wisdom ;)