We needed a ladder.
So we built a platform.

It started with a light fixture. One of our founders needed a drill — just for twenty minutes — to mount a new ceiling fitting in his Tampines flat. He did not own one. He did not want to buy one. He just needed a neighbour with a toolbox. Instead, he spent two hours on an e-commerce app, paid for overnight delivery, drilled two holes, and the drill has sat in a cabinet ever since.

That same week, a friend in Bedok was throwing a house party and needed twelve extra chairs. Another friend in Woodlands was looking for a reliable home-based manicurist for her mother. All three were doing the same thing — scrolling through apps designed for the whole world, when what they really needed was their block, their floor, their estate.

SharedOut was born from that realisation. Singapore's HDB estates are among the most densely populated residential communities on earth. Hundreds of families live within a five-minute walk of each other. The tools, skills, and services that people need every day are almost certainly already present within a single block — they are just invisible. Our mission is to make them visible.

SharedOut is Singapore's first hyper-local peer-to-peer sharing platform built exclusively for HDB communities. We connect residents within the same estate so they can borrow tools and appliances, and book trusted home-based services — from baking and tutoring to cleaning and beauty — all within 500 metres of their front door. No delivery. No strangers from across the island. Just neighbours helping neighbours.

We built SharedOut with two kinds of Singaporeans in mind. Borrowers — residents who need something for a day, a weekend, or a one-off occasion — can access what they need from a verified neighbour instead of buying it new. Providers — residents with idle assets or marketable home-based skills — can earn supplemental income from things they already own or already do. A retiree who bakes. A parent who does nails. A household with a high-pressure washer used twice a year. SharedOut turns idle assets and underutilised skills into a thriving local economy.

Beyond convenience, SharedOut carries an environmental mandate. Every item borrowed instead of bought is one fewer product manufactured, one fewer delivery van on the road, and one fewer piece of packaging heading to Semakau Landfill. In Singapore's HDB estates, where a single block can house 40 families, this impact compounds fast. We believe the circular economy does not start at the national level — it starts at the void deck.

We are a Singapore-based team of technologists, community advocates, and sustainability-focused builders. Every identity on our platform is verified via Singpass — Singapore's national digital identity system. Every transaction is secured through Stripe and PayNow. And all user data is managed in full compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA). Trust is not a feature we added later — it is the foundation we built on.

We are currently in pre-launch, accepting sign-ups across all 24 HDB towns in Singapore — from Tampines and Jurong West to Woodlands and Queenstown. We are launching town by town, starting with the estates that rally the most neighbours first. Your sign-up does not just get you early access — it helps unlock the platform for your entire community.

Share it. Share in. Shared Out.