Show HN: Thriftled – DoorDash for local thrift stores (books and clothes first)
9 michaelasiass 2 6/3/2025, 10:19:19 PM thriftled.com ↗
My cofounder and I noticed that thrift stores were still offline, and no one had tried to solve delivery for secondhand items the way DoorDash did for food.
We built Thriftled, which lists inventory from local thrift stores, lets users shop online, and handles delivery.
No warehouses, no massive ops overhead — stores ship directly, and we handle the UX, payments, and logistics.
We're testing with books and clothes from Value Village and a few independents. Would love your thoughts on the model, tech stack, and growth ideas.
Value Village I know has been on some sort of digitial revolution/ecomm change so I wonder why people would go on here vs direct to the source which also has promotions on which day you shop, etc. Salvation army also lists stuff directly on ebay now too.
and then the price of new items, can be cheaper or same as used so then you are competing wtih amazon same/next day. Then of course item condition vs stock photo.
Also no working about us page, the main contact is a hotmail address, small things here.
I get it, but I'm wondering where it fits -
The best value is someone going to the thrift store directly, wasting time to get a deal, but books are normally 2-4$ from goodwill, salvation army and the pricing is usually up to whomever is pricing when they list it on the floor.
With all of that, I wouldn't use it.
I would just do ebay because I'll have a good idea of the quality upon arrival, and it's easy to price compare to other sources online - like there are board games there, but there is no guarantee of missing pieces. Books but no idea which version or overall condition.
But I very much could be wrong and this could be a big thing - so take it as far as you can!