About Loot

Built at McMaster.
Built for Canada.

We're students who got tired of sketchy Kijiji meetups, Facebook Marketplace strangers, and paying shipping on a $20 textbook. So we built the thing that should have existed already.

The gap that nobody filled.

Rumie has 300,000 users in the US. Canada has nothing. Every single .ca student is buying from strangers on Facebook.

— Why we started building

In the US, Rumie is the verified student marketplace — 300,000 users, .edu email verification, campus-only listings. It works because students trust other verified students.

In Canada? Nothing. Every Ontario student is either buying textbooks from strangers on Facebook Marketplace, getting gouged at the campus bookstore, or hoping the Reddit thread for their course code has someone selling. None of these have verification. None of them are campus-local. None of them are built for students.

UniPlace and DormPapi exist but have no verification layer, no traction, and no Canadian focus. The gap is enormous and nobody has filled it properly.

We're starting at McMaster University in Hamilton — where we're students — and expanding across every Ontario university and college by end of 2026. The .ca email whitelist is already built. The trust layer is already there. We just needed to build the marketplace on top of it.

45+
Ontario institutions at launch
500K+
Ontario students who need this
$0
Fees, commissions, or catches. Forever.
What we believe

Three things we'll never compromise.

01

Trust is the product.

The .ca verification isn't a feature — it's the whole reason Loot exists. Every decision we make protects it. If it erodes trust, we don't do it.

02

Students keep the money.

No commission on sales. No listing fees. No "pro" plan. You worked hard for your beer money. We're not taking 5% of every textbook you sell.

03

Built by students, reviewed by students.

Every feature ships to McMaster first. Real students break it, complain about it, and tell us what actually matters before it goes wider.

Get in touch.

We're students, not a PR department. If you're a journalist, investor, potential campus ambassador, or just someone with a great idea — email us directly. We read every message.

✉ hello@lootapp.ca — General inquiries 📰 press@lootapp.ca — Media & press 🎓 ambassadors@lootapp.ca — Campus reps 📈 invest@lootapp.ca — Investors