Why BluBin Was Built

Field notes from building a simple inventory system for home resellers.

That $100 could have been really helpful.

With bills looming, I was madly dashing through my apartment trying to find an item I had listed months before. It had been stored away so long that the only reason I even remembered it existed was the listing photo on the now-sold page.

I couldn’t find it.

Eventually, I had to cancel the order.

It wasn’t the Poshmark scolding that bothered me most — although let’s be honest, it stung. It was the moment afterward, sitting on the floor between piles of storage bins, that made me ask myself:

What are other resellers doing?

A quick search showed promising software. But most of it assumed you were running a warehouse, with scanners and shelves and employees moving inventory around all day.

That wasn’t my reality.

I was a single reseller working out of my home.

The cost alone made most of those tools unrealistic. But more importantly, they weren’t built for the way home resellers actually store inventory.

That moment is where BluBin started.

Let me set the record straight here: I am not disorganized by nature.

I’m the type-A person who has planned trips for fifteen family members to remote parts of the world, navigating airlines, severe allergies, and foreign languages using nothing but Google Translate.

But that was a different season.

These days, motherhood has me answering to a tiny dictator, managing an ever-growing pile of laundry, and constantly negotiating for space inside a home that somehow feels smaller every year.

So maybe I donated the item.

Maybe I made room for something else.

I’m fairly sure.

But I’m not certain.

Somewhere under that mountain of storage bins, I started thinking about a system that made finding an item just as simple as putting it away.

Yes, I probably could have forced one of the existing tools to work.

But none of them were built for the way I actually sell.

BluBin is named after the big blue bin sitting in my closet — the one that now holds a good portion of my resale inventory.

It’s also the idea that every storage location can become part of a simple system: bins, shelves, closets, spare rooms — whatever space you’re working with.

If you’ve ever found yourself digging through bins trying to locate something that just sold…

Welcome to the build.