We are presenting you a platform that we built with the sole purpose of helping community to connect and collaborate. It took us (2 engineers) about 7 month to build it and we will be delighted if you like it, even more so if you start using it. The platform is available at https://offerloft.com and is absolutely free — no ads, no credit card required.

At the heart of the system lies the concept of ‘interests’, ‘offers’, and ‘markets’. Market is a pretty much subsection to group relevant offers and interests together. In this release we added markets like ‘Electronics’ and ‘Motorcycles’. Let us know if there is a particular one that you want to see. Send us a note if you feel like ‘Zelda’ deserves to be there! It is very easy to add!

‘Interest’ is something that you would like to have. An example of an interest would be ‘I want a couch’ along with a suitable description and maybe potential matches’ photos. Then people who have a couch could contact you. ‘Offer’ is a reverse of an interest. In the previous example that would be a person selling, or giving away, the couch.

In this release we include the following features:

Offerloft platform itself. Please feel free to send us a comment on what we can improve. As you can see our design is very minimalistic, as we didn’t have a designer, so if you feel we can collaborate with you on the design send us a note too! Either through the website itself (Contact us) or to feedback@offerloft.com !

Mobile platform. Android is in the store already. Search for ‘Offerloft’ or follow this link — http://t.co/GUsZPxxGu2 . iPhone is on its way too! All features that are exposed on the website are available on the mobile. Did we mention it has native notifications built in? Never miss a message or a notification from a sensor (see below). Again, no hidden charges, no ‘pay-to-play’!

Sensors. Create a sensor which notifies you whenever a matching interest or offer is posted. You can specify a geographic boundary as well. For example: notify me when an interest with tags including ‘zelda’ is posted within 15 miles of my location. Sensors are market specific, so you only get relevant notifications.

Messaging. We allow unlimited messaging to help you to collaborate. Just click on the Messages tab and send the poster a quick message. Messages are available at the individual post level, as well as in the messaging center.

My Items. You can always find your posts under this menu option.

Watched Items. Like a certain post? Mark it as your favorite! Click on the star icon in post’s details and it will be available for later review under this option. You can always unselect the star and it will make the post disappear from your watched items.

Log in with Facebook and Google+ if you don’t feel like going through the registration process!

Pretty fast UI. We tried to make the system as responsive as we could, so hope you enjoy the end result!

No registration is required to browse. If you want to just explore you can certainly do so! Unless you want to use profile-specific features such as sensors, notifications, messages, or my items, simply search on the landing page and browse freely!

Thanks for reading! We are happy to share this news with you and we will continue adding features to bring the system to the level we envision it becomes even more helpful! Again, send your comments to feedback@offerloft.com or use the website’s ‘Contact us’ feature.

Stay tuned!

The Offerloft Team (2 engineers).