All praise to Freecycle (and others) for what they have achieved. The concept is fantastic but sadly the user’s experience does vary…

As a donator (correct term?) I want the process to be as easy as possible to encourage me to use it as much as possible. An iPhone/Android app would be an amazing thing.

I explained Freecycle to my Mum(66) who uses her computer to check email and buy the odd thing online and she said ‘Does it work like eBay dear?’

This leads me to wonder if something close to the way eBay works would ease the transition as a lot of people already know how it works.

There seems to be a number of open source auction projects out there so something may already exist that is close to requirements.