Happy Friday, legends! For the last time this week, welcome back to the Leaderboard. In today's issue, we've got: a crypto beer app (you read that right), a site to aggregate all the vintage pieces you'll probably never buy, and a sweet way to pass down your loved one's stories. Let's dive in.
BeerMe: A social payments app built on USDC
BeerMe is a community payment platform that lets you send and collect “tokens” (USDC) like martinis ($20), beer ($8), coffee ($5), and so on, to friends. The idea is that this is a more personal way to send monetary gifts to people than just via simple bank transfer or Venmo. But while the UI is very cute, and I like the fact that the tokens are stablecoins, couldn’t you get the same effect by just Venmo-ing someone money with a cheeky tagline?
Second Sense: A platform that aggregates second-hand fashion.
Secondhand shopping online has always been a frustrating mess for me—jumping between clunky sites, trying to track down the best deal, and inevitably giving up when it feels like too much work. Second Sense changes that. It’s an aggregator that pulls listings from multiple marketplaces, matches identical items, and makes it ridiculously easy to compare prices. What I love most is how clean and simple the design is—it feels like shopping for something new, which is a first for me with secondhand shopping. It’s like Expedia for thrifting, and honestly, it turns what used to feel like a chore into something fun again.
Fireside: A tool to help you capture and preserve loved one's stories.
My friend interviewed her grandmother before she passed away and had a wonderful audio recording to remember her by. She suggested I do it with people in my life. We interviewed my husbands grandmother on video before she passed. It was a beautiful recording...but it's still on an SD card somewhere in my house. We aren't professional editors and not sure when we will ever have time to prepare. It's awesome that Fireside was built to eliminate that friction! Kudos for an awesome physical memento and making it a seamless process with interesting prompt questions to help you get to know your loved ones on a deeper level!
