the people you'd already lend your favourite clothes to —
in a small, private space, sharing them on purpose.
Most of us have a closet full of clothes we love but rarely wear — and a group chat full of friends asking what to wear for the weekend. Cycl.me sits at that exact intersection.
It's a private, invite-only space where small circles of friends — between four and twelve people — list, lend, borrow, and swap their wardrobes. No marketplace. No strangers. No algorithm. Just the people you'd already share with, and the clothes that deserve more wear.
Every garment has a history: who wore it, where, when. We're built on the trust that already exists between friends — and designed to protect that trust at every hop.
Four kinds of people, roughly.
The share-house style anchor — too many clothes, loves seeing them on her friends.
The borrower — an event next weekend, wants to ask the group what's available.
The professional — would rather show than lend, uses her circle as a curated taste committee.
The tired-of-fast-fashion person — wants her wardrobe to move, not grow.
Cycl.me holds all four without becoming a marketplace.
There are things we won't build — because building them would quietly turn Cycl.me into something it isn't.
Every one of those is a feature we'd be congratulated for shipping. Every one of those would route around the trust between friends — and that trust is the whole product.
We don't need more clothes. We need to wear the ones we have, more, with the people we love.
Six friends. 142 items. 38 swaps.
That's the unit of change. Multiplied by every group chat in every city, it's how fashion shifts from buying to belonging.
A small team in Sydney. Private alpha through 2026.
Free while we're small. Paid plans for circles coming later — designed to fund the product without ads, data sale, or partnerships.
We're building in the open. If you hit anything weird, we want to know.
— the cycl.me team ✿