How HandleDrop Started
"I had a garage full of stuff I never used, but needed things for my new apartment..."
Like many people, I had accumulated years of stuff. Good stuff. Expensive stuff. Stuff I just didn't need anymore.
I tried selling online. Hours creating listings, dealing with lowball offers, meeting strangers in parking lots, shipping hassles, payment fees... It felt like a part-time job I didn't want.
Meanwhile, I was shopping for things I needed. Spending money on items that someone else probably had sitting in their garage.
That's when it hit me: What if we could just... trade?
No cash changing hands. No fees eating into value. No complicated negotiations. Just a simple, fair swap.
But existing trade platforms were clunky, unsafe, or required meeting strangers in person. There had to be a better way.
So I built HandleDrop. A place where trading is as easy as online shopping, as safe as a bank, and as private as you want it to be.
Today, over 50,000 people have decluttered their homes and gotten what they need without spending a dime. That's 2.4 million items kept out of landfills. And we're just getting started.
— The HandleDrop Team