CLUSTER ITEMS-WEB-BARTER · 15 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-07-26
Peer-to-peer barter marketplaces
This cluster consists of web apps that let individuals buy, sell, or barter items directly with one another. Dated entry counts before the index start are intermittent: one entry in 2013-10, a grouping from 2025-05 through 2025-08 with monthly counts of 1, 2, and 3, then one entry in 2025-11 and 1 and 2 entries in 2026-06 and 2026-07. The largest single month is 2025-08 with 3 entries. Traction leaders are c2c-marketplace, vendex-marketplace, and swaphub-web, all at 0 stars, so no member shows a meaningful traction advantage.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 3 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 10 unlabelled
Operator · 7 hobby · 1 indie · 1 open source · 6 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 15 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01c2c-marketplace0★4 daysliveMarketplace web app that lets individuals buy and sell items directly with one another.
- 02vendex-marketplace0★2 mo—hobbyWeb marketplace app for buying and selling items with real-time chat between users and support for multiple languages.
- 03swaphub-web0★2 moliveBarter marketplace web app that lets users trade items directly with others.
- 04swap.it2★9 mostalelivehand-codedhobbyFull-stack marketplace app for buying, selling, donating, or exchanging items.
- 05battabatta0★3 moliveopen sourceCommunity barter platform where members publish listings, discover potential trades, and exchange non-binding offers through built-in messaging.
- 06swaphub1★4 mo—hobbyCross-platform barter marketplace app for trading books, items, and services without money, including chat and moderation.
- 07credit-spark-exchange2★1 yrabandoned—ai-builthobbyWeb app that lets users exchange or trade credits or points for goods, services, or currency.
- 08cocktail-trader1★11 mostale—Allows users to trade cocktails as a virtual commodity.
- 09trades-helper-mvp0★1 yrabandoned—hobbyTwo-sided marketplace app that connects tradespeople with helpers for short-term jobs, handling task matching and payments between both parties.
- 10SkillSwap0★1 yrabandoned—Platform that lets individuals barter skills and services with one another directly instead of paying with money.
- 11BARTER-HAVEN0★1 yrabandoned—hobbyMobile marketplace app enabling cashless bartering of goods and services through listings, real-time chat, and location-based matching.
- 12Business Express0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedindieMobile app for accessing a community currency exchange network, letting members find businesses, trade goods and services, and authorize trades.
- 13Burnt Toast App0★unknownliveBarter-based app that lets users swap services, skills, and knowledge without exchanging money.
- 14TradeApp0★unknownliveai-builthobbyWeb app that lets users list items and arrange trades or barter exchanges with other users online.
- 15Bro - Escambo Digital via Nostr | Trocas entre Amigos0★unknownliveai-builtDigital bartering app that lets friends exchange goods securely and privately using the Nostr protocol.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.