Name: Keepio
Quick Pitch: Keepio helps you keep track of collections and sell belongings within your social graph.
Genius Idea: Sometime in June, college seniors’ Facebook Newsfeeds start to look a lot like Craigslist. As recent graduates move out of apartments, they turn to their social networks to unload used furniture, posters and other items.
Why not just use eBay, Amazon, or Craigslist? Well, eBay and Amazon charge a transaction fee and shipping costs. Craiglist usually requires a face-to-face interaction with a stranger. It’s just easier to sell stuff to people who you already know.
Keepio runs with this concept. T he transaction platform makes it easy for anyone to post items for sale on Facebook, Twitter and within your own Keepio network. You decide if you want to make each of your listings private, public or kept between your Keepio friends. People who land on your Keepio page can browse all of your publicly listed items.
The site also wants to help manage belongings that you don’t intend to sell. Posting a comic collection or art collection could help organize it, and users can share their collections with fellow enthusiasts. Groups on the site make it easy to browse collections belonging to people with similar interests and purchase used items.
This concept is somewhat similar to the way Snooth helps wine enthusiasts catalog and share their collections, what Listal does for media collections, and WhatUCollect does for all collections. Keepio, by contrast, hopes to appeal to enthusiasts of all kinds, whether their passions require camping gear, scuba diving equip ment or a garden that...
