Hey ProductHunt! Very excited to be featured here today as we're launching Omni Rentals -- the community here has been unbelievably supportive since our very first launch. Today we're unveiling something we've been working towards since Day One of Omni: empowering you to make money on things you own, and access everything you don't. We have 100k+ items that members manage in Omni, and today we're giving them the power to list them for rentals in a few clicks. Every item is verified and inspected by our team before it hits the rental marketplace, and we handle everything (really, everything) for the owners. No meeting up with the renter, no dealing with payment, no negotiations -- we handle it all. As a renter, this means you now have near-instant access to anything you could want, and you can pay for only the time you need it. You no longer need to buy a drill when you need it for a day, or buy an air mattress when your friends come into town -- you can rent them in Omni and only pay for the time you need them. We handle the delivery & pickup and the items can be at your door in as little as 2 hours. What I'm most excited about here is empowering new experiences -- even a few hours into the launch, there are kayaks, paddle boards, designers clothes, bikes, surf boards, ladders, drills, tents, and 1,000+ other items available to rent. We want to empower everyone to access these items. We believe in a future of Access > Ownership, and this is the first big step towards that vision. I put together some more thoughts on where we've been and where we're going here: https://medium.com/@delk/what-we... We'll all be around all day on ProductHunt to answer questions, fire away!

This makes a lot of sense. If I want to go camping, I can drive to REI and pay $25/ day for a sleeping bag, or rent someone else's through omni for like $10/ day with pickup /delivery. If I own the gear, then I'm not going to use it every weekend so you get to recoup the cost. The only big ? for me is insurance for damage but it can be figured out

Oh, man. This is fantastic work. What a way to help people earn a little side money on what they already have.

Nice concept! Handling collection and delivery is a great idea. What locations are you operating in?

GREAT concept. What's the plan to expand this? Are you going to franchise this out to other regions or roll it out yourselves?

Hey @delk, blocked from signing up because I am not in the zipcode. Why not just let me sign up and then alert me when I can use you in my zipcode? If you just block, I will probably just forget about you guys. :( https://imgur.com/a/e20Zu

Pretty cool concept of letting people earn money on some stored items that they aren’t going to use anyways

Congrats on the launch team! I'm seeing lots of items (e.g. air purifiers, chairs) in the beta, can you talk about what other items people are sharing with each other?

Congrats on the launch! Looking forward to giving this a spin for all my equipment sitting in my room

Great idea guys!

Wow - brilliant idea + great interface! One thing - wish the items on the landing page would directly bring the users to the app to make it even easier to navigate for those interested in the "popular items". Other than that, congrats on the launch!

My bike was not returned from a rental, and I currently do not have visibility into when or whether I'll get reimbursed for it. I didn't really look into the details of their process for handling stolen rental gear (my mistake!) before I started renting it out. Now, as far as I can tell they have no hard contract in place for how to manage reimbursement. It seems like it's just up to their goodwill.

They *say* that there's a process for getting reimbursed, but as far as I can tell my claim went to their "Claims Department" to die. If I actually do get reimbursed, I'll update this review.

Edit: After about a week or two of radio silence, I was informed that a check was heading my way. When I opened it, It was for the amount I'd requested, even though I didn't have a receipt for the bike. So in the end it worked out great. I'll be curious to see if they maintain that level of service going forward.

Pros:

Seamless onboarding process

Cons:

Hand-wavy, not confidence-inspiring approach to insuring rental gear

Omni is the greatest. Their service and customer support is perfect.

Pros:

Super easy way to make some extra cash and get access to pretty much anything.

Cons:

I wish they were everywhere.

Definitely, love the vision of what you're trying to do here. It's crazy how many things we purchase and just use once. Best wishes!

Brilliant!!! Mind blown.

Congrats yall! I tried signing up using Facebook and I'm stuck on the "Amost there, confirm your details, enter your phone number" screen. After I type in my details and hit confirm, it's stuck on "Updating your address"

@delk Thanks for doing your share to save our planet! This is a pretty obvious and clever way to reduce our carbon footprint. Even if renting is costing me the same, if I know I will only need that tile cutter for one project, why not renting it from my neighbor? My question, like many others, is about insurance or if product is not returned at all. But love the concept for sure.

To what degree is quality an issue? That is, there's plenty of stuff I have that I'd rather have you guys take care of and occasionally rent out, but some of it might be in very little demand, like the odd 17 inch LCD monitor. My experience with eBay sales concierge services is that they seldom want to bother to sell any of the stuff I'm selling. So after a few inquiries I give up on trying to use them. Won't that happen with Omni?

As far as experimentation with ideas in the sharing economy goes, I love this idea. I know a lot of people who would use this.

Love the idea and am a fan of anything @delk works on. Keep up the great work Omni team!