How FIMBY works
See how FIMBY helps neighbours ask, offer, borrow, gather, and stay connected.
FIMBY in 60 seconds
- Join with your postal code — scoped to your immediate neighbourhood
- Ask, offer, lend, borrow, gather, and share life with people nearby
- Library holds items and skills — tools to borrow, help to request
- Care preferences and support people keep help welcomed, not assumed
- Local orgs post meals, rides, and rhythms neighbours can count on — steady tables in the same feed
Good morning, neighbour
The neighbourhood is waking up
OFFER
ASK
Join your neighbourhood
Tell us your name, add a photo, and let your neighbours know how they can care for you well.
During onboarding you’ll set care preferences — what kind of support is welcome, how people should reach out, and anything you’d rather they avoid. Everything is optional and editable later.
This is how FIMBY makes sure help is welcomed, not assumed.
Welcome to the neighbourhood!
Let’s get your profile set up so your neighbours can get to know you.
How can your neighbours care for you well?
These help people know how to show up for you — on your terms. Everything here is optional.
OFFER
ASK
PRAYER
THANK YOU
See what’s happening
Your neighbourhood feed shows asks, offers, stories, events, and more — all from the people around you.
Switch to Asks & Offers for practical needs and bulk buys. Filter by Shared Life to see stories, prayers, and thank yous.
It stays small on purpose: the same neighbours, again and again.
Ask, offer, and share
Ask for help, offer something, share a story, or a prayer request if you’d like. Your neighbourhood sees it right away.
Tap the + button and choose what you’d like to post. Each type has its own flow — asks and offers track responses, events handle RSVPs, and bulk buys coordinate shared purchases.
Borrow and lend
The Library holds items and skills — tools, books, and gear to borrow, plus neighbours who offer help like bike repair, tutoring, or translation.
Filter by All, Items, or Skills. Tap Ask for Help on a skill to open a message thread (lightbulb icon, Skill badge in Messages).
When you list something new, choose Lend an Item or Offer a Skill — standing help neighbours can ask for.
Because it stays local, borrowing feels more like asking a neighbour than dealing with a stranger online.
One gentle pause while you’re new: borrowing items opens after a neighbour or community group vouches for you — a quick “I know this person.” An introduction, not a background check. Everything else, including skills, is open from day one. How vouching works →
A borrowed ladder can become a front-yard conversation. That is often how trust starts.
Lend an Item
Tools, books, gear
Offer a Skill
Standing help neighbours can ask for
Gather
Three kinds of events for different social shapes — plus standing rhythms like a weekly movie night or monthly soup night you can count on. Turn on Repeat this event for series that show a · RECURRING badge in the feed.
Gatherings help strangers become familiar. Even a small alley cleanup can change the feel of a block.
Event Type
Repeat every 1 week
Gathering
A dinner party, game night, or small get-together. Neighbours RSVP and you control the guest list.
Open Event
A block party, cleanup day, or open house. Neighbours tap “I’m Going” — no approval needed.
Community Event
A concert, market, or city event you want neighbours to know about. Neighbours can mark “I’m Interested.”
OPEN EVENT
OFFER
GATHERING
Local organizations are part of it too
Community centres, shelters, churches, and other local groups can have a presence in their neighbourhood through FIMBY. They post events, share meal times and program schedules, and connect with the people around them.
It’s one of the ways FIMBY helps informal neighbourly care and formal community supports sit closer together — in the same feed, on the same street.
Stay connected
Coordinate through response threads, direct messages, or group chats. Everything stays in one inbox.
That means fewer loose ends, and less wondering where a conversation went.
Compose
Built into every neighbourhood
Support people
Someone you trust can use FIMBY on your behalf — posting, responding, and messaging as you. Built for elders, disabled neighbours, people with low tech confidence, or anyone who would rather have someone close help them participate.
Parents can add a parent-managed family profile for a kid in their household (ages 10–18). The child is known by name in the neighbourhood — “Posted with help from Sarah” — and a parent is always the one at the keyboard. No child logins, ever.
Care preferences
During onboarding, share what kind of support is usually welcome — a check-in message, a meal drop-off, prayer, company — and what isn’t. It helps neighbours know how to show up for you on your terms. Editable any time.
Bulk buys
Split large purchases with neighbours. The organizer posts what they’re buying, neighbours reserve shares, and everyone saves. FIMBY tracks allocations so nobody gets lost.
Quiet notifications
Notifications respect your schedule. Set quiet hours, choose what you hear about, and never get woken up by a bulk buy update.
FIMBY is designed to stay local, human, and useful. Read more about our approach.
Ready to meet your neighbours?
See whether FIMBY is active in your neighbourhood and start meeting the people around you.