Everyone has something they could teach and something they're dying to learn but most "learning platforms" turn that into a paid course catalog. Barter throws out money entirely: you list what you can teach (Rubik's Cube, coffee art, coding, guitar, whatever) and what you want to learn, and the app matches you with someone whose "teach" lines up with your "learn" and vice versa. It's less LinkedIn Learning, more a well-designed community bulletin board human-to-human trade, not a course marketplace.

What it does:

1.} Discover : swipe through people nearby based on skill overlap, not just profile photos 2.} Match :when two people's teach/learn lists cross, you get paired instantly 3.} Messages : chat stays anchored to the actual trade (what you're teaching, what you're learning) so it never turns into a generic DM thread 4.} Calendar :propose and confirm real time slots for sessions, Google-Calendar-style 5.} Live Session : a dedicated space for the actual exchange, with shared notes and progress tracking 6.} Profile & Dashboard : track skills you're teaching, skills you're learning, hours logged, and your exchange streak

The design idea: every skill category has its own visual language terminal/monospace touches for coding, waveform and album layouts for music, recipe-card warmth for cooking, flashcards for languages but it all lives inside one consistent design system, so switching between what you're learning never feels like switching apps.

How I built it: Prototyped in Flowstep, wired into Claude Desktop via MCP so I could design, iterate, and refine screens conversationally rather than jumping between tools went screen by screen (Discover → Skill Details → Match → Success → Messages → Calendar → Live Session → Dashboard → Profile), anchoring exact colors, typography, and interaction rules in each prompt, then wired the navigation between them on the canvas.

Prototype link: https://app.flowstep.ai/file?activeFileId=3980b587-be0f-4005-bda0-9fbe4a8270d7 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/neha-kapadi-6abb91371_flowstepchallenge-share-7487496431059083266-9kiH/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android&rcm=ACoAAFwwd6MBUfYIDrbLV2i360gtQgTGL1XbXVc