Great app to facilitate a great idea
The only feature I don't like... the images (generated by AI?) when a post doesn't have a photo uploaded. The images are bizarre, and I would love an option to turn them off (both for being viewed and being generated). Thanks.
Good alternative to FB Buy Nothing
One update that would be nice: restrict who can send "interested" messages. Where I live, 15 miles is over 1.5hour round trip. The only flakey people I've had were ones who lived 15+ miles away asking for things that retail for under $10. The economics just don't make sense!!
Easy to use
Great purpose terrible app
For givers, the inbox flood is overwhelming. The moment you post something, you’re buried in messages — and there’s no queue, no ranking, no way to manage it sensibly. Then the person you choose doesn’t show up, and by the time you go back to the others, they’ve gone cold. You’re left starting from scratch with a sofa in your hallway.
For takers, items sit listed as available days or weeks after they’ve gone. You message, you wait, you hear nothing. It’s demoralising and wastes everyone’s time.
The fixes aren’t complicated: a simple request queue (first come, first served with automatic next-in-line notification if someone no-shows), a committed pickup window before a request is confirmed, a reliability score on every profile so givers can make informed choices, and auto-expiring listings with a nudge at day 7. None of this is radical — it’s just basic trust infrastructure that the platform currently lacks.
The full-screen ads are also actively driving new users away, which is self-defeating for an app that depends entirely on local network density.
This could be the best community app on the store. Right now it’s a good idea held back by poor UX. Please fix it.
Response from developer
Thanks for the feedback. Trash Nothing has had a feedback system for years that helps members choose more reliable and trusted members to interact with. The feedback scores and percentages show up every time you view a message from another member in the app or by email. If you don't see any feedback information, it means the other member hasn't received any feedback. I'd also encourage you to leave feedback on other members after you interact with them to help improve the trust and reliability of the feedback. Instructions for how to leave feedback are at: https://trashnothing.com/help/how-do-i-leave-feedback Regarding posts expiring, every member can choose when their post expires with ranges from 1 hour to 90 days (with 90 days being the default). And we automatically send reminders to people to manage their old posts after they have been up for 2 weeks. And we send reminders sooner if they've received multiple replies that they haven't responded to. Regarding choosing a recipient, there is no expectation that items are gifted to the first person who responds. It's always up to the person giving away the item to choose who they want to give their item to. And we often encourage people not to choose the first person to respond because choosing based on other criteria (eg. how someone communicates, feedback ratings, posting history) will often lead to better results. Also, the advertisements that Trash Nothing uses should never be full screen ads (they are designed to always just be shown as a small bar at the bottom of the app). If you're seeing full screen ads without having clicked on the ads, please send me a screenshot at support@trashnothing.com so that I can look into this.
Simple and Fast
Also, I have received some things I really needed like a toaster oven and a microwave.
