How yattapick works
Free items only.
Someone gives away an item by posting a listing.
If you're interested, send the donor a message.
The donor decides who gets the item and you arrange a pickup.
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Why it exists
"I'll give it to you if you come and get it" is something we see every day, but it happens in social media groups, where it works badly, because social media was not built for this. yattapick was. In those groups there is no map, so you cannot tell whether the wardrobe is three streets away or across the city. Messages get buried under the comments, and the person giving something away ends up managing a thread instead of handing over a wardrobe. And you never know whether something is still there: half the replies under a three month old post are "is this still available?".
yattapick gives that habit the tools it never had: a map of the city, a chat that keeps requests in the exact order they arrived, reviews between users, notifications and a great many other tools built for the purpose. The idea is not new. The infrastructure is.
What social media groups do not have
- •An interactive map, updated in real time, showing what is being given away near you.
- •A proper search. By word, by category, by condition, by what you have not seen yet, and with the nearest or the newest first. In a Facebook group you can only scroll and hope.
- •Things that come to you. You save a search, a word or a whole category, and when someone posts something that matches, you get a notification.
- •People who actually want it. Each person can only have 10 open requests at a time, and a place frees up only once what they asked for has been handed over. Whoever writes to you is spending one of those 10: it is not a "mine!" thrown into a comment thread.
- •The handover closes. The person giving something away presses a button once they have handed it over: the listing leaves circulation and the chat closes itself. The question "is this still available?" does not exist here.
- •Nobody sees your address. On the map the point is moved at random by up to about three hundred metres, and the real position is hidden for privacy.
- •Reviews. After an exchange the two people review each other, so you know who you are dealing with before you even arrange to meet.
- •Moderation. You can report a listing, a person or a review, with different reasons (for instance if someone asks for money), and whoever behaves badly is removed and told why. Anyone can also block anyone else, across the whole site or on a single listing.
- •And a good deal more: real time notifications, a wishlist, a warning when a listing is about to expire, Android and iPhone apps.
How requests work
- •You can send several requests at the same time: when one closes, space frees up for another.
- • A request is freed when a listing is marked as delivered.
- •The donor always sees a queue number 1° in queue 2° in queue 3° in queue next to each requester's username - the order in which they wrote in.
- • The donor decides who gets the item.
Listing rules
- •You can have several active listings at the same time.
- •A listing stays online for a limited time, or until it's marked as delivered.