Show HN: StowShare – The Airbnb of Storage

Neat concept, best of luck! You may want to check out https://www.neighbor.com/ as well.

I worked at an incubator with a peer to peer storage play about 6 years ago.

There were quite a few storage startups in other cities that were not peer to peer and, I contend, they had a better model as the costs made more sense when you centralize to a single facility.

GoBox was it's name: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/gobox

I don't know much about what they're doing today but it looks like their site redirects to a centralized traditional storage company. Perhaps the fate of peer to peer storage to come.

I would have a hard time trusting other people to store any more than useless garbage I don't need anymore anyway. What are the plans of the company to deal with possible huge amounts of theft complaints?

There is a vast supply of mom & pop local self-storage (to say nothing of the giants like Public Storage). The US is flooded with modestly priced self-storage units. The market is hyper fragmented, which prevents prices from rising very much.

I don't understand where this tag line is coming from:

> Traditional storage units can be far away, overpriced, and have contracts.

Contracts are ideal, you absolutely want contracts. It's crazy to store your stuff with someone without a contract (that both spells out a period of time that you are guranteed to have the unit space, and makes clear all manner of liability and security issues).

It's unlikely that you have to go very far to find local self-storage, anywhere in the US, short of an extreme scenario like being in the middle of nowhere Wyoming. Even the smallest of towns in Appalachia will have numerous self-storage providers at a fair price.