Potluck
Potluck support
Last updated 15 September 2026.
Potluck is for the two things a few blocks actually do together: organising something, and lending something. Everybody in a neighbourhood here got a card in the post at an address on those blocks.
Joining with the code on your card
Your neighbourhood association or civic office posted that card because they already had your address. Typing the code proves you get post at a house here, and that is the entire check. If it does not work, ask the association that issued it: they hold the list of houses, and we do not.
Signing in afterwards is a code emailed to you. There is no password, and no Facebook or Google sign-in: that would tie a real name and a face to a specific set of blocks, which is the join this app exists to avoid making.
We do not have your address
This is worth being exact about, because "address verified" normally means the opposite. There is no address column in this app, no coordinates, no postcode and no location permission. All that is recorded is that a code was used; your address stays with your association.
What neighbours see is the display name you chose and a landmark if you set one. Both can be changed from the You tab, and the landmark can be blank.
Lending, and why there is no reminder button
Add something you would lend from the Lending tab and a neighbour asks to borrow it. Both sides see the same due date, a couple of weeks by default, and either can mark it returned.
There is no "send a reminder", on purpose. What kills an informal tool library is not losing the ladder, it is that nobody wants to be the person who asks. The borrower already sees the same date, and neither side's wording blames anybody.
Reporting something
Harassment and anything unsafe hide the post immediately, before anyone has reviewed it. Spam, somebody selling something, somebody who is not a neighbour, and anything else are queued instead: the post stays up until the steward decides, hidden from you meanwhile.
Three separate people reporting the same thing also hides it.
Your steward is a neighbour, not us, and whoever reported something is never named to anybody. A steward's decision is final both ways: something upheld stays down even if reports are withdrawn, and something dismissed stays up even if more arrive.
It is not a place to report people
There is no suspicious-activity category anywhere in this app and there will not be one: the drift into being a crime feed is what turns neighbours into people watching each other. If somebody is in danger or a crime is happening, ring 911. This is a few neighbours with a moderation queue and it cannot help with that.
Blocking
Blocking is separate from reporting and needs no reason: reporting says something should not be here, blocking says you do not want to deal with a person. The person you block is not told, because on a small street telling them is how a block becomes a doorstep conversation. You will not see their posts and they will not see yours, and you can undo it whenever you like.
Leaving
Delete your account from the You tab. Your profile, the items you listed for lending, and anything you are borrowing or lending go with it.
Things you posted stay up with your name on them. A plan for Saturday's cleanup that vanished overnight leaves people turning up to nothing, and an anonymous one is worse. Delete anything you would rather remove before you go; the app says so when you tap delete.
Your data
Stored: your email address, your display name and landmark, the things you post, the things you list for lending, what you have borrowed, and who you have blocked. No password, no phone number, no location of any kind, and no payment details, because Potluck is free to neighbours. The full policy is at carrierpress.com/potluck/privacy, naming the one service involved: the host that keeps the database and sends the sign-in codes. There is no analytics, no advertising and no tracking software in this app.
Contact
One person reads that, so a reply may take a few days.
Potluck is published by Jeffrey L Carrier.