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Https://swapiverse.com/ It's just our pre-launch page for now. We are planning to match users and allow them to swap books with each other. As of right now, I
by vuciv1 6y ago
Https://swapiverse.com/
It's just our pre-launch page for now. We are planning to match users and allow them to swap books with each other.
As of right now, I'm not sure how to avoid scammers... that's my biggest issue.
- kaliara 6y agoMaybe have them take a photo of the specific page of the book? Like the one with the copyright and publishing info? At least then it’s some indication that they have the book. You could scale up a bit using mTurk and the OCR to verify.
- vuciv1 6y agoSorry, link seems to be broken. https://www.swapiverse.com https://www.swapiverse.com
- henearkr 6y agoMaybe use a reputation score, because becoming rich stealing books is going to need a lot of books (especially as pocket books are very cheap), and so scammers would very quickly lose their stars.
- noja 6y agohttp://bookmooch.com/ http://bookmooch.com/ uses a points system
- mikkergp 6y agoI like the idea, but I think the trust problem + shipping costs + challenge of finding overlapping swaps could be challenging. But this may be interesting for rare or expensive books With the "overlapping was" problem you may have to create a currency/credit system in which case you're almost a used book store.