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I decided three days ago that I'm going to build https://dubble.so in public (I know it's getting a bad rep lately, but it looks too fun to let it be). I don't have many connection…

Love it! Gave it a test run yesterday, looks promising so far.

Thanks aleem, I wrote up my initial experiences at https://medium.com/@dean_mcpherson/townske-app-in-react-nati... a while ago, some of the points are probably no longer an issue. …

Agreed, we probably need to work on offsetting those prompts til after onboarding, and preparing the user. An implementation issue though, not a react native one. The two permissio…

Correct, Curbit shares 80% between iOS and Android

Here's a bit about my experience with React Native. I've been using React Native on iOS in production since last November for http://townske.com/app , Over that period, I did hit s…

If you want to keep up with future developments, there is a waitlist at http://curbitapp.com .

Thanks jonesb6 :)

That's a cool idea. A lot of charities in Aus will come and pick up stuff that's valuable if you organise it. With Curbit we're really trying to create infrastructure for one way g…

Creating services for local government to use is definitely an avenue of monetisation we will investigate later down the track if the app gains traction. Obviously however, user pr…

Thanks jsankey, I agree. One of our key target demographics are parents home with children. From anecdotal experience, they are a good fit to both the supply and demand of temporar…

Curbit is my side project, I work for travel startup townske.com.

Hey jsankey, the advantage of Curbit is simplicity. All existing solutions require a fair amount of effort of the person wanting to get rid of something. Freecycle is solving the e…

At the moment, we're not really interested in monetising. We're treating this as infrastructure that we wish existed that doesn't. However, if it does turn out to solve a problem f…

Hey femto, I'm Dean McPherson (@dean_mcpherson), the dev making Curbit. Our current plan is exactly that, if the user is posting their own stuff, we ask them to place it in a legal…