Built around student life

Trade smarter.
Reuse better.
Live campus-ready.

UniTrade brings everyday student exchange into one focused campus marketplace — from a calculator before an exam to a full room-clear bundle before semester break.

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Marketplace status

Your campus starts here.

Create an account to start listing, saving, requesting and exchanging.

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Why UniTrade

One campus, one local layer for the things students actually share.

UniTrade is designed around short distances, semester schedules, flexible ownership, and the reality that useful belongings often outlive a single student.

01Find nearby first

Discover items by hostel, block, campus zone, and handover distance.

02Choose the right ownership

Buy something forever, rent it for a week, borrow it for an exam, or trade it.

03Keep value moving

Help useful products stay in circulation longer and reduce unnecessary replacement.

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Campus trends become meaningful as you add your own marketplace activity.

Explore the product

Every major workflow has its own space.

Use the navigation to open a dedicated experience instead of scrolling through one oversized dashboard.

Marketplace

Find useful things close to you.

Search by item, category, transaction mode, hostel block, condition, or proximity. Compare options before starting a conversation.

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Showing all campus listings

Select up to two items to compare

Looking For

Post demand before you start searching.

Tell your campus what you need, where you need it, and how you want to get it. Nearby students can respond without you repeatedly checking listings.

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Describe the need

Give people enough context to recognise the item and understand your deadline.

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Set your constraints

Add a budget, hostel block, required date, and preferred transaction mode.

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Let supply come to you

Your request becomes a discoverable demand signal for sellers and borrowers.

Open requests

What students are asking for

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Community

Make reuse feel social.

UniTrade turns useful exchanges into a campus community layer with Karma, Zero-Rupee Drops, local demand signals, and reusable item stories.

Campus Karma

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Create a helpful listing or request to start earning Karma.

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Zero-Rupee DropsCommunity giving

Free items should be easy to find.

Use the Free mode for hangers, buckets, curtains, books, stationery, storage boxes, or any useful item that still has life left in it.

Karma leaderboard

Contributors shaping the culture.

Campus Pulse

What is moving this week?

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Smart services

Eight simple tools for campus life.

UniTrade is more than a marketplace. Each service solves one specific campus problem and opens in its own focused workspace.

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Easy by design

One task per screen.

Each UniTrade service is deliberately focused. Open the tool, understand what it does, complete the action, and return to where you were.

Service 01 · Rent & Borrow

Use it for as long as you actually need it.

Choose a short rental, a longer weekly period, or a free borrowing arrangement. Keep the handover, return deadline, and condition expectations visible.

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Choose a plan

Pick a simple access model.

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Service 02 · Barter & Trade

Turn something you own into something you need.

Choose your listing, choose another listing, and send a clear trade offer with optional cash adjustment.

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Create a trade offer

Your offer is saved in your account activity.

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Service 03 · Fair Price

Price your item with a little more confidence.

Get a transparent estimated resale range based on original price, age, condition, category, and campus demand.

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Price estimator

The result is a suggestion, not a guaranteed market value.

Service 04 · Lost & Found

Find a likely match before the trail goes cold.

Describe a lost or found item and UniTrade will rank stored reports using transparent text and context similarity.

Service 05 · Starter Kits

Buy a semester in one smart bundle.

Useful bundles reduce the number of separate handovers and help graduating students clear several items at once.

Build from your listings

Create a useful bundle from items you already own.

Starter Kits stay empty until you have listings to group. This keeps the product clean and ensures every bundle reflects real inventory created by users.

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Service 06 · Fire Sale

Clear a room before the semester turns.

Urgent pricing, room-clear bundles, and free pickup make end-of-semester transitions easier.

Service 07 · Vacation Hold

Keep heavy stuff close while you travel.

Find or offer short-term storage for cycles, mattresses, luggage, appliances, and other campus essentials.

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Offer a storage hold

Create a storage entry with duration, capacity, location and your own pricing terms.

Set your rateChoose your campus area

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Request storage

Record what you need stored and when you will return for it.

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Storage checklist

Keep condition, dates, responsibility and pickup evidence attached to every hold.

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Handover checklist

Keep storage expectations simple.

Record condition, storage period, contact details, and pickup evidence before leaving the item.

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Service 08 · Digital Vault

Keep good notes in the campus knowledge loop.

Organise authorised revision notes, guides, lab manuals, and previous papers by subject and semester.

Sharing standard

Only upload materials you own or are authorised to share. UniTrade should not be used to distribute copyrighted textbooks or unauthorised academic material.

Campus impact

Measure the value of reuse.

Track marketplace activity and translate it into understandable indicators of student value and circular use. Environmental values are estimates, not verified measurements.

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Your impact story starts at zero.

These metrics update from the activity you create on this device and are presented as estimates. They are not independently verified environmental measurements.

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How the numbers are built

Transparent assumptions

Student savings: difference between stored original and sale price.
Reuse events: completed or actively shared marketplace items.
Material avoided: conservative per-category weight assumptions.
Carbon estimates should only be added when a documented methodology is defined.

Campus story

From unused to useful.

Every cycle, appliance, book, calculator, or piece of furniture that finds a second user can delay a new purchase and help another student start sooner.

Trust & Safety

Good marketplaces make safe choices easier.

UniTrade is designed with practical safety workflows for identity, handover, reporting, and responsible communication. It does not guarantee that every transaction is safe.

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Meet visibly

Choose well-known campus locations, reception areas, libraries, security desks, or other visible places.

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Inspect first

Check condition, accessories, serial details, and functionality before payment or handover.

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Protect credentials

Never share passwords, card details, or private authentication information with another user.

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Keep a record

Use in-app messages and keep a clear record of agreed price, condition, return date, and handover terms.

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Report concerns

Use the reporting workflow for misleading descriptions, unsafe behaviour, spam, restricted goods, or academic-integrity issues.

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Escalate when needed

If a situation becomes unsafe, stop the exchange and contact the appropriate campus authority or emergency service.

About UniTrade

A campus marketplace built around real student habits.

Students frequently need the same categories of products for only part of their academic journey. UniTrade creates a local layer for finding, sharing, renting, storing, and reusing those resources.

Objective

Make local exchange the default.

Give students one focused place to discover useful items before buying new ones, while making it easier for senior students to recover value from belongings they no longer need.

Problem

General marketplaces are not campus-shaped.

Distance, shipping, unknown contacts, weak local context, and limited rental or borrowing workflows add friction to transactions that are naturally short-range.

Solution

Context beats generic reach.

UniTrade places hostel blocks, campus zones, handover locations, student schedules, and flexible transaction modes at the centre of discovery.

Sustainability

Keep useful products useful longer.

The circular value comes from extending product life, increasing access to lower-cost goods, and making reuse easier to see and act on.

Roadmap

Local today. Connected tomorrow.

01Local-first frontend

Fast campus browsing, local persistence, and useful workflows.

02Secure backend

Protected accounts, server validation, storage, moderation, and cross-device sync.

03Campus intelligence

Better demand forecasting, image-aware matching, smarter pricing, and notification systems.

04Campus network

Institutional integrations, campus administration, and verified community services.

Technology direction

Simple frontend now, clean backend boundary later.

The current interface keeps state behind reusable JavaScript functions so localStorage can later be replaced by an API layer. Authentication, file storage, chat, notifications, payments, moderation, and analytics should move to secure server-side services as the product expands.

Trust & safety

Honest by design.

UniTrade is built to help people make safer decisions through process, not guarantees. Identity verification, protected messaging, reporting, secure payments, and moderation are backend responsibilities once the service is connected to a production stack.

About the makers

The people who made UniTrade.

Meet the people currently credited with building UniTrade. Additional contributor profiles can be added when their names and links are confirmed.

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Product & Frontend

Aryan Das

Works on product direction, interface systems, frontend engineering, and the experience that connects student needs to useful campus workflows.

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Engineering & Testing

Chandan Singh

Contributes to engineering, testing, documentation, and collaborative execution across the UniTrade product experience.

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UniTrade Product Guide

Everything about UniTrade, in one readable guide.

Understand the marketplace, account flows, feature architecture, safety model, local data storage, and the path to a secure backend. The PDF is designed as a product handbook with visual explanations.

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01 · Product

A campus-first exchange layer.

UniTrade brings discovery, ownership, sharing, storage, and community workflows into one campus-focused product so students can find useful things without leaving their local environment.

02 · Accounts

Built for personal user accounts.

Create an account, sign back in, manage your profile, and keep marketplace activity connected to your account while the current data layer remains local to the browser.

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03 · Marketplace

Every listing starts with the user.

The marketplace begins empty and grows from real listings students create.

04 · Safety

Process instead of promises.

Reporting, safe handovers, responsible communication, and clear transaction expectations are built into the experience without claiming risk-free transactions.

05 · Product intelligence

Useful tools around the core marketplace.

Price estimation, Lost & Found matching, starter kits, Fire Sale discovery, rental planning, digital resources, barter, and storage are separate workspaces so each task stays focused.

06 · Future-ready

Local today. Secure tomorrow.

The current browser data layer can later be replaced by secure authentication, a database, storage, realtime chat, payments, notifications, moderation, analytics, and campus administration.

Detailed handbook

Read the complete UniTrade guide.

The downloadable PDF includes feature explanations, user flows, product structure, safety principles, data architecture, and visual diagrams that explain how the website works.

Download UniTrade PDF