Free2Pick

Marketplace for giving things away, funded by donations and a Plus membership.

The problem

Something usable is heading for the bin because finding a taker takes longer than putting it out.

Usable thing
No easy taker
Goes in the bin

What I built

01Photo listings with a pickup place, given away rather than sold
02Search and categories across the catalogue
03A Plus membership and donations fund the site, not a cut of each gift

Features

Home grid
Things being given away, searchable by category.
Listing
Photos, pickup, and the description the owner wrote.
Search
Find a bicycle in the catalogue.
Plus
The membership that funds the site.

The marketplace home: search, categories, and listings of things being given away.

One listing: photographs of the items, the pickup location, and the description its owner wrote.

The hard part

Live inventory

A claimed listing has to disappear from every open search at the same moment. Two people showing up for one sofa is the failure. Convex reactive queries are the mechanism: the grid is a live query, not a page that goes stale.

Stack

Frontend
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Tailwind
Backend
- Convex
Payments
- Stripe
Platform
- Turborepo
- Yarn
- Vercel