This takes peer-to-peer sharing to a whole new level. A new app lets you barter your left-overs with strangers. Ingenious? Or just horrifying?

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A New App Will Let You Share Your Leftovers With Strangers

Startups have made it so much easier for peer-to-peer buying and bartering these days. Need a place to stay? Swap houses. Want to fill out your wardrobe? Swap clothing. And coming soon is Leftover Swap, a smartphone app to help you barter or give away your leftovers.

This is either ingenius or cringe-worthy, depending on your penchant for other people’s unfinished meals.

“It’s obviously not for everybody,” says Leftover Swap co-founder Dan Newman. “But for as many people who seemingly have a problem with it, there’s people who love the idea.“

Read the rest on NPR’s All Tech Considered blog.

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