Cooreea

Cooreea is a ride and freight-sharing website. We are building what we believe is an innovative collaborative transport network flexible enough for a multitude of uses. There are a lot of cars on the road with just one person in them - let's reduce it or use it. The idea is simple - if you want to go somewhere but don't want to drive by yourself, you see if a friend is travelling the same way you can share transport / carpool with. If you bought a surfboard on TradeMe in another city, you see if someone you know happens to drive from there to where you are and could pick it up for you. Fact is, there aren't always people you know travelling that way, so we decided to build a website that enables you to find people online to collaborate with.

Our aim is to provide a reasonably safe environment to do this in. People can set up a user profile - tell others a bit about themselves and once you've caught or offered a ride or have transported something for another person you leave feedback for each other. That way other people will find out what you're like to deal with and see that you are trustworthy. (We're all familiar with this from TradeMe and Ebay)

We are also hoping to get courier companies and other commercial transport providers involved. In many cases there are great public transport alternatives to driving a car by yourself and we'd like to also help people find them and encourage everyone to think outside the one-person-per-car transport option.

Our business is young! We are looking for people to try it out and let us know what they think - hopefully we will hear from you :-)