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Is there anything out there that's a self hosted Sharing Library for real world stuff?? (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by DundasKev@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Look I got a bunch of once-a-week tools and a bunch of once-a-year tools, and even once-ever tools (looking at you, wrench that removes drains from bathtubs).

I want to put all my TOOLS in an app or database that i'm comfortable sharing. Then define those groups - church people, work people, neighbors whatever. Then they can do the same, and say which group can borrow what. And do requests, sign outs, whatever.

But this could be huge. Because women especially will lend clothing, accessories, purses whatever to their friends. Christmas party coming up? Let me double check my friend's closet library. Stop fast-fashion, share!

Does anything like this exist? It seems perfect for many applications. Books, DVDs whatever! And you could add items with a picture, but also import from URL like amazon or whatever-- the way MEALIE scrapes recipes.

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[–] FunnyPocketBook@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Not sure how well these tools cover your needs, but this sounds a lot like an inventory/asset manager that is focused on communities rather than organisations/companies. Have a look at the ones listed here

- https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#inventory-management

- https://github.com/awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin#it-asset-management

Most of them also have a demo. I've heard a lot of good things about SnipeIT, and it looks like it can also do what you want it to do. Keep in mind though that most of these are inventory/asset managers that are intended to be used in an organisation, so the UI might be a bit ugly/cluttered/unintuitive to share it with your neighbours/church people