It feels good to share.

SLIPPERS

Share what you have.

Ask for what you need.

Connect with the people around you.

Two hands holding a small terracotta pot filled with ripe and unripe cherry tomatoes outdoors on grass. One hand has a glove with blue dots, the other bare.

Together we have all we need.

Slippers lightens the load we all carry by making it easier to share resources, skills, time, and support within our communities. Together, we already have so much of what we need. Slippers just makes it visible.

A drill. A bike pump. A ladder.
A skill. A ride. A hand.


Slippers helps you discover the abundance that exists around you.

Front steps of a row house with various tools and outdoor equipment, including a bicycle, helmet, toolbox, dumbbells, and plants, under a tree-lined street.

A different way to do life.

A Slippers community believes we don’t all need to own everything, know everything, or solve everything ourselves.

We borrow instead of buying when it makes sense. We share what we have instead of letting it sit unused. We offer the skills, knowledge, and time we can give — and we’re willing to ask the people around us when we need something too.

Those small exchanges do more than save money or time. They help us become familiar with the people around us. Familiarity builds trust. And trust makes it easier to ask for help, offer help, share more freely, and rely on one another when it matters.

That’s how life gets lighter: not because we become more self-sufficient, but because we stop expecting ourselves to do everything alone.

Two people sewing together at a wooden table, with sewing machine, spools of thread, fabric, and tools, in a cozy room with clothing racks and plants.

We all have something to share.

We all sometimes need something.

Slippers makes it easier to do both.

See how it works

Find more reasons to gather together.

The more we share, the more familiar the people around us become — and the easier it becomes to gather.

Start a babysitting exchange. Organize a pickup game. Trade skills. Plan a block party. Simply be together.

Six friends gathered around a dinner table playing a board game, smiling and laughing, in a cozy, warmly lit room.

Slippers helps people turn “someone around here can probably…” into real plans, real help, and real connection.

A group of women sitting at a table, engaged in a craft or activity, with colorful paper and art supplies in front of them, in a cozy indoor setting.

How It Works

Join or create your community

1

Find or join the Slippers community around you.

Share or ask

2

Offer what you have, ask for what you need, or post something you want to do.

Connect

3

Message, coordinate, borrow, teach, help, or make plans with people nearby.

Keep it going

4

Every exchange makes the next one easier — and helps build a stronger, more connected community.

Meet Slippers

Screenshot of a community app homepage showing community statistics like offers accepted, needs fulfilled, gatherings, and resources available, along with navigation tabs for 'Community,' 'Gatherings,' 'Commons,' 'Chats,' and 'Me' at the bottom.
Screenshot of an event with gathering details and RSVP options.
Screenshot of a neighborhood resource sharing app within the Austin Hill Community, showing different categories like home and garden, tools and equipment, outdoor and recreation, kids and baby, and arts, crafts, and music, with various items available for sharing or reserving such as a sewing machine, leaf blower, and shovels.
Screenshot of The Commons section in a community app showing various skills such as piano lessons, dog walking, DIY solar panel installation, raised bed gardening, kayaking, woodworking, and math tutoring, with options to request or manage each service.

Want Slippers in your community?

If you’re interested in bringing Slippers to your neighborhood, apartment community, workplace, church, volunteer group, or other community, we’d love to hear from you.