I love the idea. My concern would also be "stepping on consignment" but as an attendee & prospective consumer I love it! Ben On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 11:23 AM Dave Shevett via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Hey everyone. I was chatting a bit about this on the VCF Discord '#for-sale' channel, and got some good feedback / interest, so I'd like to toss it out here and see if we want to raise up the visibility a bit.
I wrote an application called ClaimIt. It's designed for communities that tend to have focused interests, and are more interested in sharing and supporting the community than making a quick buck. The idea is to have a place to search, browse, and, well, CLAIM items that people are giving away or selling. The most important aspect is that you can SEE if someone has claimed an item or not (so this prevents the 'Is this still available???' responses), and if so, you can put yourself down as an alternate, so the seller can say "Well, bob claimed this, but he flaked, so dave, it's yours."
https://claimit.stonekeep.com/
There's a VCF community there already (I only have one item there), but in the lead up for VCF East, is this something we'd like to encourage people to use?
Now, one of the things I've been avoiding is making it 'yet another site i have to go look at' - to that end, it can email you when things are listed in a community, and will email you when someone claims one of your items. In addition, there's hooks to update Slack (and shortly, Discord) when an item is put up for claim. I didn't want to put this on the VCF Discord without discussing it with people first.
The entire app is opensource, with an issue tracker and other information. https://github.com/shevett/claimit-stonekeep/
Is this something the VCF community would be interested in setting up? I don't want to step on the consignment folks' toes, but this may be very handy in the "I'm coming to VCF, I have these 10 items I'd like to sell / consign. If you're interested, claim them here, and we'll hook up at the show."
Thanks, happy to hear feedback - people are also encouraged to list / test / post thins on the VCF community there to test or get a feel for it. The Discord hook is NOT active right now, so if you post something and want to see it on discord, just post the link and discord will auto-expand it (like this: https://claimit.stonekeep.com/?page=item&id=20260107161930-5e71 )
-dave (one of the many).
-- - Benjamin Krein