Four steps, and none of them involve money

Photos first — the primary slot is the biggest thing on the screen, because a listing without a good first photo doesn't get swiped right.

Then Looking for. This is the field the whole product turns on. Write "a travel tripod" and you become findable by everyone who has one. Leave it as "Nothing Specific" and you're relying on people to guess.

Condition is a four-way choice — New, Like New, Good, Fair — and it's colour-coded consistently everywhere it appears, so you learn to read it at a glance.

The deck is a small, finite set — not an infinite feed. When you've been through it, it tells you so and offers to shuffle. We'd rather you close the app than scroll it.

Underneath, the matching looks at what you have, what you're looking for, and how far away the other person is. A trade that needs a two-hour drive isn't a match.

Anything you swipe right on opens a conversation, not a purchase.

A trade proposal names what you're offering and what you want in exchange for it — colour-coded orange for what you give and marine for what you get, the same way round every time.

Either side can counter. Counters replace the offer rather than piling up, so there's always exactly one live proposal in a thread.

You can attach a note. You cannot attach a price, because there is nowhere to type one.

Once an offer is accepted, the trade grows a meet-up composer: location, date and time, and an optional note. It lives on the trade, not buried in the chat.

After the meet-up you both answer one question — did the trade happen? Only when both sides say yes does it count as completed.

Then you rate each other. Your completed trades and your rating are your whole reputation on Brtr; there's nothing else to game.