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Barterloo is a community-powered platform where people exchange skills, services, secondhand goods, knowledge, and small business offers without money changing hands between users.
Founded in 2025 by Kelly Dempsey and Stefan Krajczar, Barterloo has been live in beta since 2026 and is growing through a people-first model built around real value, community, and exchange beyond money.
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Project Runway star creates bartering platform that connects people through goods and services without money changing hands.
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Barterloo is a social barter platform where people exchange skills, services, secondhand goods, knowledge, and business offers without money changing hands between users.
Barterloo is built around the idea that value is not limited to money. People have skills, time, creativity, knowledge, unused items, community connections, and local business offers that can be exchanged directly.
The platform combines a barter-based marketplace with a social community feed. Users can discover things they need, offer what they already have, connect with other people, and support small businesses without relying on ads or traditional transaction-heavy marketplace models.
Barterloo is currently live in beta and is being developed as a community-first alternative to conventional buying and selling platforms.
Barterloo is built on a simple idea: people are not broke because they lack value. They often just lack a system that recognizes the value they already have.
Skills, time, creativity, knowledge, unused items, local connections, and small business offers can all become currency when a community is built to exchange them.
Offer. Want. Trade. Repeat.
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Use this wording when referring to Barterloo publicly: community-powered barter platform, social barter platform, and people-powered exchange without money changing hands between users.
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MassLive
MassLive covered Barterloo as a platform connecting people looking to trade goods and services without exchanging money.
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Yahoo Lifestyle covered Barterloo as an app helping people trade goods and skills locally and globally.
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Barterloo was listed in the BU Spark Demo Day schedule under DS519 Software Engineering.
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3S Artspace references Kelly Dempsey and Barterloo in the context of skill and resource exchange outside traditional currency systems.
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Conversations about Barterloo, bartering, community, circular value, creativity, and the future of exchange.
Grounded in Maine
Kelly Dempsey discusses Barterloo, the return of bartering, community-powered exchange, and how people can trade skills, services, and secondhand goods without relying only on money.
Local Threads
A conversation with Kelly Dempsey about Barterloo, creativity, community, and the idea that people themselves carry real value beyond money.
Product validation
Barterloo was presented through Boston University's Spark Demo Day at the Experiential Learning Expo in Spring 2026 as part of the DS519 Software Engineering project track.
This reference should be used as product and academic ecosystem validation, not as a formal partnership claim.
Barterloo is founder-led by a creative community builder and a digital marketplace systems expert.
Co-Founder of Barterloo
Kelly Dempsey is a designer, upcycling creator, Project Runway alum, and community builder. Her work centers around creativity, reuse, and turning overlooked resources into new value. Barterloo grew from her belief that people already have skills, time, items, knowledge, and creativity worth exchanging.
Kelly Dempsey is a designer and upcycling creator known for transforming secondhand materials into original fashion and functional pieces. As the founder of the Barterloo concept, she brings a creator-led perspective to the platform: value already exists in people, skills, resources, and community. Barterloo extends that thinking into a digital platform where people can trade, connect, and support small businesses without money being the only measure of worth.
Co-Founder of Barterloo
Stefan Krajczar is a digital business, e-commerce, and marketplace systems expert focused on building scalable digital platforms, community products, and business visibility systems.
Stefan Krajczar is a digital business and e-commerce expert with a background in marketplace systems, product strategy, automation, and digital growth. As Co-Founder of Barterloo, he focuses on platform architecture, monetization strategy, business features, and the systems needed to turn a community idea into a scalable product.
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