Growers: would you use a weed swap app???

duch3ss

duch3ss

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Hi everyone - first time poster long time geek here. Wanting to get a gauge on interest as I've had an idea to create an app that would allow growers to anonymously swap their weed without even having to meet. But is this something people would even be interested in? Want to get an idea if it's viable before I throw 100 odd hours of work into creating it.

"If you build it, it doesn't necessarily mean they will come" - Steve Jobs
 
Unless you already know how it would be implemented without anyone getting ripped off, kinda like escrow, then no. Without that kind of capability, then all you have is an app that would allow someone to get some free weed and send nothing in return. And I really don't see how you could implement such a feature.

Working on the goodness of mankind would be well and good, but that's not reality. Without such a system the app would be taken advantage of those with a lesser sense of morals.
 
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Unless you already know how it would be implemented without anyone getting ripped off, kinda like escrow, then no. Without that kind of capability, then all you have is an app that would allow someone to get some free weed and send nothing in return. And I really don't see how you could implement such a feature.

Working on the goodness of mankind would be well and good, but that's not reality. Without such a system the app would be taken advantage of those with a lesser sense of morals.
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Thanks for the response :). I've got it planned out to a degree. And I think that it's a pretty bullet proof system from all angles - anonymity, low profile, not even needing a meeting.

It would basically be a GPS system where two growers once they'd agreed to trade would drop a 5g bag of their finest in a location. Then once both locations were confirmed the app would send out the details. Then there'd be a feedback mechanism to let the system know that the swap had been a success.

It would work on a pay it forward system. There'd be 2 different user types - 1) New account; 2) Activated account (able to arrange swaps). To activate an account a user would have to 'pay it forward' by dropping 5 x 1g baggies at GPS locations of their choosing. The guidelines would state that swaps are limited to 5g to ensure low interest from undesirables.

So the outcome would hopefully be that lots of people would get free weed (albeit in small amounts) as growers activated their accounts; but then growers would be able to browse a local weed list by strains to swap. The great thing about growing is that you end up with lots of the stuff so for me doing a grow it means I could end up with multiple strains from a single grow. The app would take care of feedback and validity of swaps, and if anyone pulled the wool, they'd have to reactivate their account by doing another 5 x 1g drops.
 
The gps method does not do anything for the potential to be "scammed". It would still be possible for weed to be left at location A but nothing to be left in location B. It may only be 5g, but there are more than enough people in this world who would happily rip someone off for 5g. Trust just wouldn't cut it. Hence why i said it would have to be some kind of escrow type system.

Not against the idea, sounds good, and could also be fun. Like geotagging, but with weed at the end, not just a box nailed to a tree saying congratulations you got here you found me.
 
You're right - trust is always going to be the issue. I'm hoping it would be quite fun for people though - and it'd be banking on the effort of having to do another 'pay it forward drop' of 5 x 1g bags to reactivate an account if anyone fedback that they hadn't received a pickup. So in essence to even start swapping a user would have to drop the 5x1g bags, then if they scammed someone they'd get 5g 'for free', but they'd have to do another 5x1g drop based on the reported non-pickup to reactivate. So they'd basically be down 5g just to get back into the system. I can't think of any way anyone would get around this to make being dishonest worthwhile. And with the goodwill generated from the swaps, I'd be hoping it'd cause quite a positive stir within the community.
 
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Your program has notify me that you just left me some of your finest dank on earth. Cool!! I'll go and pick it up at that location. Wow he left me with some fire so I will return the favor no biggie. I left you with some Mexican brick shit that was stuck up his sweaty ass going for $50 an oz......but it was some fire to me so in my eyes it was dank!!! Wanna trade again? LOL!!:hump:
 
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I suppose the bottom line is - regardless of hopes and fears etc... if the system worked would you use it?

If the system allowed you to:
  • Trade quality homegrown strains
  • Trade anonymously
  • Have zero risk of any unwelcome attention
  • Browse a list of homegrown (with images) to trade
Would you?

:)
 
The problem is if they scammed and then had to pay it forward as you say. They could just erase the app, then install it again. There are too many factors here me thinks. Just my .02

I probably WOULD NOT use it. If I lived in a legal state, its easy to get access already, via dispensaries, and in illegal states....hell no am I going to download an app they someone could potentially access and find my location. Check silkroad if you want that
 
duch3ss said:
I suppose the bottom line is - regardless of hopes and fears etc... if the system worked would you use it?

If the system allowed you to:
  • Trade quality homegrown strains
  • Trade anonymously
  • Have zero risk of any unwelcome attention
  • Browse a list of homegrown (with images) to trade
Would you?

:)
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No!
 
duch3ss said:
Hi everyone - first time poster long time geek here. Wanting to get a gauge on interest as I've had an idea to create an app that would allow growers to anonymously swap their weed without even having to meet. But is this something people would even be interested in? Want to get an idea if it's viable before I throw 100 odd hours of work into creating it.

"If you build it, it doesn't necessarily mean they will come" - Steve Jobs
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sorry my friend , iv read your other post and how it would happen,,,,,,,,,,sorry to say but



extremely over engineered idea
 
duch3ss said:
You're right - trust is always going to be the issue. I'm hoping it would be quite fun for people though - and it'd be banking on the effort of having to do another 'pay it forward drop' of 5 x 1g bags to reactivate an account if anyone fedback that they hadn't received a pickup. So in essence to even start swapping a user would have to drop the 5x1g bags, then if they scammed someone they'd get 5g 'for free', but they'd have to do another 5x1g drop based on the reported non-pickup to reactivate. So they'd basically be down 5g just to get back into the system. I can't think of any way anyone would get around this to make being dishonest worthwhile. And with the goodwill generated from the swaps, I'd be hoping it'd cause quite a positive stir within the community.
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the trust thing is its down fall, like most things in life ,trust!!
i worked that out in your 1st post sorry
 
Sounds like the bottom line is actually - paranoid smoker is paranoid. Which means it wouldn't work. Thanks for the feedback, guess I'll put my time and energy into something else. :wink:
 
Think you would be better off making a Co-Op or a club, meet 2x a months and swap stuff, Face to Face
 
duch3ss said:
Sounds like the bottom line is actually - paranoid smoker is paranoid. Which means it wouldn't work. Thanks for the feedback, guess I'll put my time and energy into something else. :wink:
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You can replace "paranoid" with "factual" Anyone who's ever dealt with a true scammer knows that they're always out there waiting for something to strike on. They care absolutely nothing about anyone or their situation. I've seen scammers happily take the last dollars a cancer patient could scrape up and never think twice about it. They would steal the old widow ladys savings it took her whole life to gather. They have no honor, so anything remotely close to an honor system can't apply.
Its a sad fact, but its a fact. Its not at all about being a "paranoid smoker"
 
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