Every other marketplace asks you to trust strangers. We make trust a number you can see — earned through real transactions, verified by the community, and impossible to fake.
Most marketplaces hand you a star rating and call it a day. ilist tracks karma — a weighted reputation score built from successful trades, peer vouches, identity checks, and time in good standing.
A new account starts at tier 1 and earns its way up. Long-tenured users with strong karma carry more weight when they vouch for someone — so trust compounds the right way.
Bad actors can't farm their way past it. Karma decays without real activity, vouches from low-trust accounts count for less, and a single confirmed scam wipes the slate.
No bidding wars, no opaque algorithms, no "boost your listing for $9.99." Just a marketplace where the rules are the same for everyone.
Email, phone, optional ID. Encrypted at rest. Used to gate the listing, never sold or scraped.
Real categories, real search. No keyword stuffing — django-watson indexing keeps listings findable for what they actually are.
Karma is visible on every profile. Vouches are public. Meet-ups, contact, and payment stay in your control.
Successful trades earn karma. Vouches from trusted users compound it. Scams burn it.
We're not chasing a hype stack. ilist runs on the proven boring tools that actually scale — and we've already written more tests than features.
Sensitive fields (birth dates, PII) are encrypted at rest. CSRF on every form. SQL injection is structurally impossible — every query goes through the Django ORM.
WCAG 2.1 AA compliance is validated in CI — not promised in a marketing deck. Real screen reader support, real keyboard navigation, real colour contrast.
django-axes monitors failed logins. Every API endpoint is rate-limited per IP and user. We log enough to catch attackers, not enough to be a privacy risk.
Data export, deletion, and consent logging are first-class features — not afterthoughts. You own your data and can take it (or delete it) any time.
JWT-authenticated, comprehensively documented, rate-limited. Build clients, write integrations, automate workflows — or just use the web app.
Automated flagging plus human review. Karma decay on bad actors. Scam listings die fast. Real listings stay clean.
First 1,000 waitlist members get founder badges, lifetime fee-free listings, and a vote in the community guidelines.