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I see nothing in this yet that differentiates your product in any way. In fact there are many ways in which your service seems worse (I purposefully didn't rea
by mikeryan 16y ago
I see nothing in this yet that differentiates your product in any way. In fact there are many ways in which your service seems worse (I purposefully didn't read the about to see if it says something about this subject in there. I'm treating this as a first time user)
First you have a paging mechanism to find my city! Que Horror! I realize you have a filter on there but that's painful craigslist finds out where I should be by IP geolocation or has the complete list on page one!
Then my city (San Francisco) isn't supported - it is in the list however? I realize that there is a common theme on HN to put your site out early an often. But if my city is in the list but is not supported, I'm not coming back to find out when it is. Say distinctly on your home page that this is a limited trial for a small set of cities. Both craigslist and Yelp started with a small geographic area, start with that.
Once I get into a city - there is nothing here that differentiates your offering from craigslist. Its UI/search doesn't seem revolutionary and you have none traction. There is no reason yet for me to try to transition to your service.
Don't just remake craigslist - figure out how you're going to make it better - and not a little better a lot better. Then go from there. Realize that taking on craigslist has been done without success numerous times) how are you going to do better.
- slouch 16y agoi agree that there is nothing worse than an empty location or category. it tells me that your focus isn't on my experience with the site. the pages you have for philadelphia serve no purpose right now other than demonstrating feature parity with one of your competitors.