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Singapore start-up creates Freegood app to facilitate giving away and getting goods for free to reduce waste and help others

April 2018 –  Free Good Pte. Ltd., a Singapore-based start-up has
developed an innovative social app, making it easy and priceless to give away
and request for goods.

 

With the founding mission “To inspire
good in people through giving”, Freegood was created to provide a hassle-free
platform for individuals and organisations to give and receive goods for free.
The simple interface of the app makes it easy for users to request for and list
their own items, as well as arrange meet-ups through interactions with other
users of the platform.

 

Users can list items they need or items they want to give
away and mutually agree on a time and place for exchange. This simple and comprehensive
interface allows seamless transactions; all for a good cause.

Freegood
aims to inspire a spirit of giving within a community, by linking people who no
longer need certain items, to people who need them.  The GPS functionality matches users with
similar listings within a community making transactions easy.

Aside
from encouraging users to help those in need, Freegood also helps better the
environmental situation by reducing waste. Unwanted presents, old books, used
furniture or kitchenware could all find a second home via the app.  A more sustainable future is in our hands,
with the development of this app and an opportunity to minimise our waste in
landfills.

Said
co-founder Sidharth Bhasin, “It’s a known fact that the world has a waste problem
that has been fuelled by commercialism.  People
constantly buy things, sell things and throw things. We have countless apps out
there that have made it easy for people sell things with an emphasis on ‘me’
and making money, however there is nothing out there that makes it easy for
people to help others by giving away unwanted items — and saving the
environment. So, we created Freegood and our mission is to ‘Inspire good in
people through giving’ and that is exactly what our mobile app aims to do.”

 

 “Doing good for the environment and helping
others at the same time should be made as easy as possible,” added co-founder
Yuvi Bhasin.  “With Freegood we address both
those challenges.  Unique features in the
app ensure that users get tokens of appreciation when they successfully give
things away. Ultimately it’s all about doing good and feeling good.”

Freegood is available for iOS and
Android devices.  Key features include:

  • GPS
    based listings and community
  • Matching
    engine for items being requested and being given away
  • In-app
    currency called ‘Tokens’
  • Ability
    to show appreciation when receiving goods
  • Chat
    and other transaction features
  • Global
    usability

 

About
Free Good Pte Ltd.

Free
Good Pte. Ltd. is a Singapore based social enterprise that provides a global
platform for individuals and organisations (both for and non-profit) to give
away and request for goods.  This is a free service that has the potential
to dramatically reduce waste by making it easy to reuse goods and keep them
away from landfills.

Freegood on the web: http://freegood.org

Freegood on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freegood.org/

Dowload the iOS app here: https://tinyurl.com/freegoodiOS

Download the Android app here: https://tinyurl.com/freegoodANDROID  

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