Pass it on
Decluttering? Hand it to a neighbor instead of the landfill. Snap a photo, post it, and let it find a new home.
An open gifting community
Neighbors, giving freely.
Gifthood is where people offer up the things they no longer need, and ask for the things they do — among the neighbors who live nearby. No money, no marketplace, no catch. Just a little more generosity, close to home.
A bulletin board for generosity
It works the way a good neighborhood already does — someone has something to spare, someone else could use it, and the two find each other.
Say what you need
Post a request. Someone nearby may have exactly that thing waiting in a closet, glad to see it used again.
On the open network
Your identity and your posts live in your own data repo on the AT Protocol — the open network behind Bluesky. No walled garden.
One project, a few front doors
Gifthood is an umbrella for a small family of open tools. Here's where each one lives.
Closed beta
The app
gifthood.community
Browse and post gifts and requests in your area. Your listings live in your own data repo — you own them.
Closed beta
The network home
gifthood.social
A first-party place to get an identity on the open network, so signing in never feels alien.
Who's building it
Right now, Gifthood is one person.
It's built by Tim Trautmann — a software person of twenty-five years and a Portland photographer — as a gift of service to the community. There's no company behind it and nothing for sale. The point is simply to make giving easy and keep it in the open.
If Gifthood grows enough to need sustaining, it may become a Public Benefit Corporation — enough structure to cover the servers and pay people fairly for their work, with the community's benefit written into its charter. No paywalls, ever. If that day comes, you'll read about it here first.
Come say hello
For press, partnerships, or just to follow along — the door's open.