Why AllDibs exists

Every street owns twelve lawn mowers that each run four hours a year. Every family group chat has a thread called “who has the beach house the week of the 4th?” that ends in someone quietly seething.

Sharing things is obviously good — cheaper, greener, friendlier. What kills it isn’t generosity. It’s scheduling. Someone always books every summer Saturday, someone else never feels like they can ask, and the spreadsheet somebody made in 2019 has been broken since the third row.

AllDibs fixes the scheduling with one idea: days are currency, and weekends are the scarce coin. Every member gets a budget of midweek and weekend credits. Booking a day spends one; when the day passes, you get it back. Everyone can plan ahead, nobody can hoard, and the app — not a person — says “that weekend’s taken.”

Around that we built the boring-but-necessary parts: a calendar that can’t double-book, a chat for each item, a drawer for receipts and manuals, and host controls for the person doing the sharing.

It’s free for up to five shared items, because the family boat shouldn’t come with a subscription.