Some honest feedback, FWIW...<p>What's your plan to get users? A large part of the success from other asset-sharing services is due to the fact that they initially chose a vertical (Airbnb: apartments, Getaround/RelayRides: cars) and made a small number of people in that vertical incredibly happy. Generalizing to "all things" has the advantage of making your target audience/market bigger, but also seriously risks making the average experience worse for a couple of reasons: (1) you're constrained to keeping the interface generic enough for "all things", and (2) by not targeting a vertical, demand/supply becomes much less targeted, meaning you need a large user base for the marketplace to be useful.
You have a chicken-and-egg problem.<p>Also, each renter now must do fulfillment themselves. If I'm renting my bike for $5/day, it's a huge pain if the person that is renting from me is twenty minutes late to pick up and return it.<p>What I want to see is someone who focuses on have all the household essentials for rent, and does fulfillment themselves. I think electric drills are typically used for 5 minutes total by most owners. Could I please rent hardware and one-off supplies from one place? Pretty please?
Not bad, but you've got a two sided marketplace you need both people with stuff to rent and people who need to rent stuff.<p>I'd start with a metro area and get ahold of existing rental places and get their inventories listed to break the chicken/egg issue you face.<p>Rgarcia makes a great point, you should think about focusing on a specific vertical as it will make it easier to get both sides of the market jumpstarted.
Dear Would-Be Entrepreneurs Wanting to Use Buzzwords:<p>It's not peer-to-peer ("P2P") if peers are not communicating _directly_. If they are using your server to communicate, e.g. post ads, then it's NOT peer-to-peer. It's a bulletin board. There is a difference between a) a switchboard, b) a bulletin board and c) a person-to-person telephone call.<p>Sincerely<p>End-User Looking for REAL P2P Services Not Fake Ones
Great idea, but without venture funding this is a tough operation to scale. With such low barriers to entry for this market, other local markets can easily replicate this model if it is indeed successful.