That sounds like a great idea. I’m an infrequent user of Freecycle, well, rather it’s my wife that uses it, but I’ve seen how frustrating an experience it is every time she posts something. People not showing, too many emails and the inability to sanely mark things as having been taken being the main issues.

A bespoke system for this purpose makes a whole lot of sense! I would have thought there’s potential for some kind of funding to help get this kind of thing going, perhaps via something like Social Innovation Camp – http://www.sicamp.org/

I’m sure there would be some other sources of funding to help make this happen too, like a Kickstarter project perhaps.