Get close to friends
The theme of GoHitchhike surrounds special items that create dialogue between friends, and getting close to friends through understanding differences in lives. While users help their friends bring their items, they may meet requesters・ friends or families and create social networks. Friends are more close to each other once they have more friends in common.
Receive desired item and cure homesickness
GoHitchhike offers a platform for users to post their desired items from their hometowns or families and search for matched trip schedules to ask travelers to bring back requested items. When people receive desired items and their family・s loves, their homesickness will be released.
Share story and experience
GoHitchhike allows users to share stories of special items that record emotional moments, and experience trips to bring requesters・ items. Users can experience culture differences by being travelers or reading the stories that others share on the GoHitchhike.
Make the earth green
GoHitchhike can conserve natural resources by reducing shipping and receiving wastes. The way of reducing shipping and receiving wastes is to eliminate unnecessary packaging materials including choosing matched packaging materials for products・ size, weight, shape, and property.
Travelers carry items through flights and give items to requests face-to-face, so there are no packaging wastes from shipping companies. Meanwhile, it can save fuel and reduce production of carbon dioxide.
Save shipping fee
GoHitchhike helps people save fees on shipping. We calculate the shipping fees of a box of specialty (The size is 29.4cm x 23cm x 5.5cm, and weight is 950g) from Asia and Europe to the United States. The shipping fees cost the same price as the product, 30 US dollars. We asked people about the costs, 90% of them feel it・s not worth getting the specialty because of the shipping fees. GoHitchhike helps you get your items for free.