GuardaEspaço — Peer-to-Peer Storage Space Marketplace for Portuguese Cities
Portuguese cities have a perfect storm for a storage marketplace: apartments are small (average Lisbon apartment is 70-85m²), families accumulate possessions, and formal self-storage facilities are rare, expensive, and located in industrial areas far from where people live.
The Problem
Portuguese cities have a perfect storm for a storage marketplace: apartments are small (average Lisbon apartment is 70-85m²), families accumulate possessions, and formal self-storage facilities are rare, expensive, and located in industrial areas far from where people live.
Meanwhile, thousands of Portuguese homeowners have empty garages, caves (basement storage), unused rooms in rural/suburban homes, and warehouse space sitting idle. There's no platform connecting these two groups.
The current alternatives are terrible:
- Self-storage facilities (Shurgard, BlueSpace): €100-€300/month for a small unit, typically 15-30 min drive from city center, long contracts
- Keeping stuff in parents' garage: Informal, creates family tension, unreliable
- Throwing things away: Wasteful, especially for seasonal items, sports equipment, baby gear between kids
- OLX/Facebook Marketplace: People post "tenho garagem para alugar" but there's no structured marketplace, no trust system, no insurance
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