Swiccy started as an idea in the Christmas period, where people give presents to eachother. In particular, in Italy you can receive some particular kinds of sweet breads called "Panettone" and "Pandoro". Because I prefer Pandoro over Panettone, I was afraid of receiving too many Panettones and be forced to throw them away. So, I thought, why don't I create an online platform where to exchange my Panettone for a better and healthier and tastier Pandoro? That's it. There are no other reason. I was just hungry.
Once upon a time, an italian pastry chef managed to prepare a new dessert for the king, made of a sweet bread, and since it was the color of gold, it got named "Pandoro" (Golden bread). But the enemy empire eventually got to know about this new dessert, so they tried to copy the idea. To stop them, the king sent some undercover agents to mess up with the plan of the enemy. They were eventually able to pour in the pot some candied fruit and they altered the ingredients for the bread. The final result was very different from the Pandoro. Indeed, the "Panettone" was born. Since then, it is said that a war is still continuing today in Italy, between the supporters of the two factions.
Have you received some socks from your grandmother at xmas, but you dislike them? Good, why don't you give them away in exchange for something else, instead of keeping them forever and never use them? There will surely be some fool... ehm, I mean, some kind soul that will give you something you like more!
Just register an account and post your request. You offer 5 pairs of socks and are looking for a new book? You want to get rid of that old computer and would like to receive a Nokia 3310? Then this is the right place for posting your insertion!
Write a title and a description, define quantities that you are giving away and expecting to receive back, the city where the item(s) can be found at, and eventually an address. Posts will need to be approved before you can see them actually online, and it might get rejected, expecially if they are against the law. Please do not use Swiccy to spam your own websites or anything like that, because the post will be rejected and removed.
You can upload multiple images in your post.
You can edit a post that you have submitted, but it will then need to be approved again, so please double check before submitting. It might get rejected if you completely change the original post. Instead, consider submitting a new post if you have something very different to exchange.
Here are some planned features that have not been implemented yet:
- Search posts by city
- Search posts by text
- Add country field to posts (?)
- Boosting posts visibility
- Paginations
Of course this is just a platform that allows you to post something. You take full responsibilities for what you post and what you give/receive.
Swiccy is made with CodeIgniter 4, it is fully open source and you can replicate it, clone it, change it, whatever you want, as long as you give credits to Swiccy.
You can use this freely but there are some conditions for fair use:
- Please add in your footer or header a link to our Github repo or to Swiccy directly
- Alternatively, you can put the links inside a Credits page, and link the credits page in your footer or header
- If you use it for commercial purposes, i.e. you are getting money thanks to this idea (be it from donations, purchases, ads, or anything of the like) please also put a "Donate to Swiccy" or similar link in your footer/header/credits page
As an example, you could do something like: "Based on Swiccy, read about it on Github or support it".
The link to Swiccy should be dofollow, you can remove the referer if you prefer (example: rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank")