today is the day that divvy debuts. it’s been quite a journey…i hope that you like what you see. here’s a little primer on our service:
divvy helps you rent whatever you want to whomever you want, however you want.
divvy sets you up with your own private website. for instance: you.divvy.com. you then complete an on-line wizard to create an automated calendar reservation system, fully tailored to each thing (or service!) that you want to rent out through your subdomain. you can then invite your friends, family, or members of your community to visit your website to rent your stuff or avail themselves of your services. you have full administrative capability to manage access and control reservations. as an owner, your income is derived on a per-reservation basis; your users secure each reservation by making payment through an integrated paypal process. but you don’t have to charge. divvy can be used to schedule things that you loan out or share with others.
dormant assets are wasted assets; a sustainable earth vision and the exigencies of economic recession demand efficient use of resources. using divvy reduces waste, which reduces production pressures, which saves the planet one transaction at a time. divvy helps people save money and leverage their assets to the mutual benefit of their peers and communities, meaning that divvy helps people create green (common) wealth.
condos can offer a vehicle as a homeowner amenity. churches can rent tables and chairs to other congregations. members of a co-op can rent tools from the community tool shed. you can rent your rafting equipment out to your friends.
what will you use divvy for?
aaron freed / founder
21 October 2008 at 9:59 pm |
very interesting idea. I hope to use it.
4 November 2008 at 9:20 am |
Are you going to make an API for this? If you did I’d seriously consider integrating into our web based point of sale. We get a lot of people asking for a “rental” module in our system – but we don’t want to build one ourselves. If I had an API to do thing like:
-transfer customer list/information (create, update, delete)
-get customer balances with summary/list of what was rented – so we can charge them for the rental at the point of sale
I could totally use it.
Anyways, great idea!
5 November 2008 at 3:17 am |
great timing with the crisis and all. best of luck!
26 January 2009 at 4:29 am |
Hi!
is there any chance to have it translated o to translate it by ourselves in italian???