🀝 mutual help exchange

Everybody needs a hand.
Everybody has one free.

xyx.me is a mutual help exchange. You say what you're stuck on. Somebody nearby says "oh, I can do that in ten minutes." Then you return the favour to someone else entirely.

Not a marketplace. Not networking. Just the very old idea that people are startlingly good at things their neighbours are hopeless at.

Someone asks
"My bike gears are possessed."
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Someone answers
"I own a tiny wrench and strong opinions."

🧰 What we're building

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Asking is the easy part

Post the thing you're stuck on in one sentence. No forms, no job spec, no pretending it's a "project."

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Help travels onward

You don't pay back the person who helped you. You pay it forward to the next person in the queue. Turns out that scales better.

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Matched on ability, not vibes

We pair by what you can actually do β€” the wrench, the spreadsheet, the second opinion β€” not by how well your profiles rhyme.

🚢 How it goes

Say what you need

"Someone to look at my CV." "A ride to the airport." "Explain my landlord's email to me."

Say what you've got

Everyone has something. Patience, a car, a language, a decent camera, twenty free minutes.

We introduce you

Small, specific, low-stakes. The kind of favour that ends in tea rather than an invoice.

About the name 🧬

XY XX β€” the whole species, sorted into two piles that spend a remarkable amount of energy talking past each other. We think men and women are, on balance, better at helping each other than the internet lets on. So we built a place where the only question is "can you do this thing I can't?" β€” and the answer is usually yes.