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Outpost is an iOS app that connects users within the sharing economy, enabling peer-to-peer interactions and transactions. Launched in 2014, it serves individuals looking to share resources and services with others in… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. An iOS app for the Sharing Economy launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Outpost▲390

    Ask experts anything, get a guaranteed response

    2025 · outpost.chat · its alternatives →

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    Swarm 4.0▲286

    Compete with friends based on the places you go

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    Sharing, Feedback & Planning Made Easy

    2024 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Swarm 5.0▲426

    Keep up & meet up w/ your friends (pre-launch)

    2017 · swarmapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, we're launching Outpost, an open-source, self-hostable component designed to handle outbound event delivery for SaaS/API platforms. If you're building a platform, you eventually need to send events to your users (think payment success, resource updates, workflow changes). Implementing this reliably—handling retries, monitoring, scaling, providing a decent dev experience for consumers, and managing tenants—becomes a significant, recurring engineering task that distracts from core product development. We built Outpost to offload that complexity. Outpost delivers events via…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Swarm▲698

    Relationships. Are. Back.

    2025 · theswarm.com · its alternatives →

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    Merge▲355

    To-do list app for couples living together

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Free▲447

    Share your availability and get more time with friends

    2015 · ffrree.com · its alternatives →

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    Co-living made easy in NYC 🏘🗽

    2018 · outpost-club.com · its alternatives →

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    Habitate▲339

    Turn your customers into a community

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Tandem▲267

    Limit Venmo requests & money fights with expense sharing

    2023 · usetandem.com · its alternatives →

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    SharePal▲123

    Add, organize, share any info at lightning speed

    2023 · getsharepal.app · its alternatives →

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    Outpost▲16

    Expedia for the sharing economy

    2014 · outpost.travel · its alternatives →

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    The easiest way to share your location.

    2015 · transitory.me · its alternatives →

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    The messaging app for large groups and communities

    2017 · forj.ai · its alternatives →

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    Beacon▲84

    Navigation sharing made simple and easy

    2021 · jatter.ai · its alternatives →

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    A simple, real-time shared shopping list app

    2018 · ueberliste.de · its alternatives →

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    Sharing is a command-line tool to share directory and files with ios and android devices without an extra client app

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Invest alongside friends

    2022 · pluto.markets · its alternatives →

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    Sharing economy built on blockchain

    2018 · originprotocol.com · its alternatives →

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    Hatch▲137

    A photo-sharing experiment. Follows tags, not people. iOS 8.

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    A collaborative app to plan get-togethers with your friends.

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Easily share web content to your family and loved ones

    2023 · poivide.com · its alternatives →

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