Built a trust layer for buying from strangers online because the current system is basically nothing

Hey, I'm Jeremiah

The current way you decide to trust someone before sending them $400 for a card, a watch, a GPU, a pair of sneakers, or really anything you're buying from a stranger on an online marketplace (Reddit, Facebook Marketplace, etc.) is you check their post history, see if their account is old enough, maybe Google their username, and take a shot in the dark. If you're meeting in person, you're going off vibes and whether they seemed normal over text. For most people that's good enough most of the time, but when it isn't, you're just out of luck.

I've been part of the r/sportscards and r/watchexchange subreddits for years and watched people lose money to scammers enough times that I eventually just started building something. Vouched is identity verification plus a reputation score built from confirmed trades. Your reputation follows you everywhere instead of resetting to zero every time you join a new platform, and if someone gets caught scamming their record lives forever instead of disappearing when they delete their account.

Going live soon. First 500 users get lifetime free access because I want to get enough real traders using it that the trust scores actually mean something.

usevouched.app if you want to check it out.

When you're buying something from a stranger online or in person, what actually makes you feel like you can trust them? Is this something you see making you feel a bit more comfortable?