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My logical brain says that suing Padmapper is perfectly reasonable. My emotional brain is crying at the idea of using raw Craigslist ads to find an apartment th
by patdennis 14y ago
My logical brain says that suing Padmapper is perfectly reasonable. My emotional brain is crying at the idea of using raw Craigslist ads to find an apartment the next time I move to a new city.
I move to a new city every year, usually on short notice, and I often go into the process of apartment hunting with no knowledge of local neighborhoods, the public transportation system, or general geography. Without Padmapper, the process would be unbearable.
- Goronmon 14y agoYeah, I'm in a similar position. Every time I have to use Craigslist I come much closer to hating the team behind it. I mean, I know it's probably not rational, but I think they are being shitty people for locking up so much useful data behind a site that is designed to be miserable to use. It's pretty evil when you get down to it. It's obvious they don't care about users.
- vigrant 14y agoWhat's stopping someone from making a craiglist like website with an awesome UI?
- lobotryas 14y agoThe challenge in building a brand and an audience that Craigslist has assembled. If you build it, doesn't automatically mean that they will come.
- phpnode 14y agonetwork effects
- Goronmon 14y agoIt's hard to compete with a site that is both free and "everyone" uses already. Both of those are very strong barriers to entry.
- vigrant 14y agoVery true.
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- guelo 14y agoThat's ridiculous. Craigslist lets you refine your search down to the neighborhood. It's not that hard to use. People find apartments on there all the time.
- jcdavis 14y agoIt may not that hard to use, but Padmapper is still a far superior experience (eg email alerts on apartments in an area which meet your criteria)
- jfb 14y agoDepends on which Craigslist you use -- the neighborhood listings aren't particularly granular, and neighborhoods themselves aren't fixed, so one person's Glen Park (for instance) could be another's Outer Mission. Using a map is an uncontestedly superior interface for organizing geographic data. People find apartments on Craiglist despite the interface. This is not to address the issue of ownership of listing data, or the case law, which latter isn't settled anyway.