Requirements

Opportunity:

With the continued rise of lending services, cars (Turo), homes (Air B&B), pools (Swimply) - a common generic service to allow the lending of any type of goods is needed to meet the needs of the public.

Goal:

• Create a simple, secure, and trusted service to connect individuals and organizations who want to lend items or the use of items to those who desire to borrow what is being lent. Think the Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace of lending

Business Case:

• Sign up 100 users in first month after launch and achieve a 20% growth rate month over month afterwards
• Establish ShareThrift as an up and coming alternative to other Sharing services.
• Allow service to run w/out taking any loss and to allow the cost structure of supporting services to increase as the same rate (or less) as revenue
• Limit revenue to placing prominent listings on platform

Project Budget

• Initial charges must fit within the MSDN Credit allowance

Deliverables:

• Individual to Individual Borrowing/Lending
  • User Registration
  • Identify Verification (cost neutral)
• Lending Options
  • Geographical Constraints
  • Limit to Specific Groups of Users
    • Friend Groups
  • Categorize Listing
  • Listing Description
  • Listing Photos
  • Schedule
    • Min-Max time for lend (hourly/daily/weekly)
    • Min-Max lead time for reservations
  • Boost your listing
    • Initially just $$/month

Out of Scope

• Undesirable
  • Escrow / Payment Coordination Services
  • Borrower Legal signing of lending terms/conditions per item
• Phase 2
  • Business to Individual Borrowing/Lending
    • Business Registration (B2B)
  • Listing boost pricing based on
    • Geographical Region

Constraints

• Budget