Less stuff. More life.
Borrow instead of buy, do instead of own, and lean on the people nearby. Ripls makes the simpler life the easy one.
Get on the list→ An app for the tool shed, the hand-me-down chain, the supper clubBorrow instead of buy, do instead of own, and lean on the people nearby. Ripls makes the simpler life the easy one.
Get on the list→ An app for the tool shed, the hand-me-down chain, the supper clubHere's all it takes: "20 mi easy ride on Walnut Creek trail, Sunday morning."
Ripls drafts the event; you tweak it and share. Ripls tracks who's in, what they're bringing, and negotiations on the time and place that works best for everyone. It sends a ping the day before. You can stop coordinating in group texts.
Ask for what you need. Offer what you can share. Ripls helps us remember how to lean on each other again. Let's stop spending money on ourselves and start meeting each others' needs with what we already have.
Only your crew. You decide who's in it.Your health and wellbeing. The research is blunt: across 148 studies of 300,000+ people, those with strong social ties had 50% better odds of survival, and the U.S. Surgeon General puts the health risk of disconnection on par with smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day. Time with your people isn't a luxury — it's medicine.
Your planet. Most of a product's carbon is spent before you ever switch it on — about 28 kg of CO₂e to manufacture a typical household item. Sharing skips that: London's Library of Things counts 1,500 tonnes of CO₂e saved by neighbors borrowing instead of buying. Every borrow is one less thing that has to be made.
Your privacy. No data sold. No ads. No stranger discovery. The people you share with can share back to you, and that's it.
Our algorithm's job is to send you outside.
Anybody can borrow a ladder once. The shift is when it becomes how you live — the swap that's run six seasons, the tool shelf the whole street shares, the standing dinner that means you actually know the people around you.
That's when "buy it, use it once, store it forever" stops being the default, and a simpler, lighter, more connected life takes its place — not because anyone gave anything up, but because it turned out to be the better one.
The team-text parent. The rides organizer. The meal-train coordinator. The one keeping the Saturday game going.
Private beta. We hand-pick the first groups each week — by what you're trying to keep going.
You're on the list! We hand-pick the first groups each week, so we'll be in touch soon about what you're keeping alive.
A few questions you'll have