Rediscover Your Neighborhood.Share What You Have.Get What You Need.Build Your Tribe.
List what you’re Offering. Post what you’re Seeking. Tribes™ finds the neighbor whose needs fit yours both ways. No money, no clutter, no waste.
Free on iOS and Android. Join 500+ neighbors on Tribes. Starting in Houston, growing block by block.
On Social Media You Scroll.
On Tribes™, You Trade.
Most marketplaces are built around cash. Tribes is built around your block. You list what you can share (a power drill, a spare bike, guitar lessons) and what you actually need. Our matching engine pairs your Offerings with a neighbor's Seekings, and theirs with yours.
You get what you need. They get what they need. Nobody opens a wallet, and a little more of your neighborhood gets used instead of stored.
A pressure washer for a weekend of pet sitting
Outgrown kids' clothes for a box of garden tools
Guitar lessons for help hanging drywall
Your Neighborhood Has
Everything You Need
Your block already has what you need: Someone has the ladder. You have the baby gear. Another neighbor has the skills your business needs. The problem isn't resources. It's connection. Tribes bridges that instantly.
You don't know who has what. They don't know what you need. Tribes bridges that gap instantly.
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the number of neighbors most people can identify²
of Americans wish they knew their neighbors better³
List What You Have.
Name What You Need.
List an Offering
Something you can share: a power drill, a sourdough starter, guitar lessons. Snap a photo and Tribes drafts the listing for you.
Post a Seeking
Something you actually need: a ladder, a babysitter, help moving boxes. Be as specific as you like.
Get Matched Automatically
Tribes finds neighbors nearby whose Seekings meet your Offerings, and whose Offerings meet your Seekings. You get a notification when a match appears.
Chat in the App
Work out the details without handing over your phone number. Messages stay in Tribes until you decide otherwise.
Trade and Rate
Propose the trade, counter-offer if you need to, meet up, mark it complete, and rate each other. Every trade builds your reputation.
Built for Real Neighborhoods
Two-Way Matching
The engine looks for trades that work in both directions, across goods and services alike.
Snap and List
Take a photo and Tribes drafts the listing for you, title and description included, so posting takes seconds.
Trade Proposals
Propose a trade, send a counter-offer, and track it through to a completion handshake.
In-App Messaging
Private chat with reactions, editing and archiving. Your phone number stays yours.
Circles
Join an invite-only Circle for your street, church or school, and see who in a match you already know.
Trust and Safety
Five-star ratings after every completed trade, plus reporting and blocking always one tap away.
We All Need Our People
Humans have always thrived in small, trusted groups. Modern life disconnected us, but the need never disappeared.
Tribes brings back that sense of belonging by helping you trade with the people who already live around you.
Borrow the drill from the neighbor two doors down. Hand your outgrown baby gear to the family who needs it. Swap an afternoon of your skills for an afternoon of theirs.
Join a Circle for your street, your church or your kids' school, and every match tells you who you already have in common.
What Neighbors Are Trading
Tools & Equipment
Ladders, drills, pressure washers, the tile saw you needed exactly once.
Kids' Gear
Clothes they outgrew in a season, strollers, car seats, bikes, toys.
Skills & Services
Photography, tutoring, handyman help, design, accounting, repairs.
Garden & Home
Cuttings, compost, planters, furniture, and the surplus from a good harvest.
A Hand With Things
Moving boxes, pet sitting, a ride to the airport, watching the house.
Everything Else
Books, sports gear, baking, music lessons, whatever your block has to offer.
Who Tribes™ Serves
For Neighbors
Borrow, lend, help, trade. Use Tribes however fits your day.
- ✓Trade for what you need instead of buying it
- ✓Put what you already own back to work
- ✓Offer a skill and get one back
- ✓Build a reputation your neighbors can see
For Partners
Bring your street, congregation, school or club onto Tribes as a Circle.
- ✓Invite your members into a private Circle
- ✓Give them a practical reason to show up
- ✓Matches inside a Circle carry a trust badge
- ✓Circle creation is coming to Tribes Premium
Stronger Trades. Stronger Neighborhoods.
Tribes isn't just about borrowing a drill or finding a babysitter (though it's great for that too). It's about rebuilding the social fabric of our neighborhoods. When you know your neighbors, you know who to call when you need help. You know who can call you. You build resilience, reduce waste, and create the connected community you actually want to live in.
We're starting in Houston and growing block by block.
Neighbors Connected
Circles Forming
On iOS and Android
What Neighbors Say About Tribes
“Tribes helped us bring our neighborhood together. We finally have a practical way to share resources and build trust.”
Sarah Martinez
HOA President, Riverside Community
“Borrowing tools instead of buying them has saved me hundreds.”
Michael Chen
Tribes Neighbor
“Our parents' Circle is the support system we were missing.”
Jessica Thompson
Tribes Neighbor
Frequently Asked Questions
Get Tribes
Free on iOS and Android. List one thing you're Offering and one thing you're Seeking, and let your block do the rest.
Join 500+ neighbors already trading on Tribes.
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