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Platform for supporting local sellers and buyers

15 points by blunum 2y ago

smackeyacky 2y ago
Clicked around, felt like I knew less than when I started. Facebook marketplace sucks but this is just confusing.
dvh 2y ago
When I search city I see flag, so you know the country, but I can't search by typing name of the country.
0asa 2y ago
Remind me of this one: https://shareish.org https://shareish.org With a nice paper: https://ht.csr-pub.eu/index.php/ht/article/view/487 https://ht.csr-pub.eu/index.php/ht/article/view/487
seper8 2y ago
What a fever dream of a website...
prawn 2y ago
Any locale I searched had zero results. You should at least encourage people in that situation to be the first to list something. Probably a good idea to focus on a particular location first and spread out from there. And prioritise that location on the front page, rather than having it empty with just a search field. If I visit and find nothing for my location, I will never return. Just pick your home town or something and focus on that.
- kristianc 2y ago
  This — two sides marketplaces are probably the hardest type of business to grow and scale, you'd be much better at focusing on a specific locale and directing traffic there (even with social/PPC) than going with an empty search box.
- blunum 2y ago
  Yes agree, its initially hard to get content on the site, showing other places that has some content from the home page is a great idea
jangliss 2y ago
I couldn't find any locations on the Channel Islands. Where did you get your place list?
- blunum 2y ago
  The list includes places with a population above 10000
robshep 2y ago
"Blunum bils in Xcent only" We tried a variant of this with token/credit-based accounting instead of local current Failed miserably. We learnt that "Confused says no" the hard way. Good luck.
cess11 2y ago
Doesn't show anything unless I run scripts. So I looked at https://blunum.com/manu-4cf782dm4.mjs https://blunum.com/manu-4cf782dm4.mjs, which is kind of weird? Like, why does it define empty functions just to fill out a()-z(), and how is it decided which characters get a non-empty function body? The static data structures holding stuff like currency and country information also make me itchy, as does the convoluted string stitching. Is this the result of some well-known tool?
subpixel 2y ago
As someone who has floundered in this space, some advice: local matters to shoppers less than they will tell you to your face. To consumers, Haddock from Iceland they buy at their local grocery store is local. You cannot disabuse them of this notion while simultaneously taking their money.

15 points by blunum 2y ago

smackeyacky 2y ago

Clicked around, felt like I knew less than when I started. Facebook marketplace sucks but this is just confusing.

dvh 2y ago

When I search city I see flag, so you know the country, but I can't search by typing name of the country.

0asa 2y ago

Remind me of this one: https://shareish.org https://shareish.org With a nice paper: https://ht.csr-pub.eu/index.php/ht/article/view/487 https://ht.csr-pub.eu/index.php/ht/article/view/487

seper8 2y ago

What a fever dream of a website...

prawn 2y ago

Any locale I searched had zero results. You should at least encourage people in that situation to be the first to list something. Probably a good idea to focus on a particular location first and spread out from there. And prioritise that location on the front page, rather than having it empty with just a search field. If I visit and find nothing for my location, I will never return. Just pick your home town or something and focus on that.

kristianc 2y ago
This — two sides marketplaces are probably the hardest type of business to grow and scale, you'd be much better at focusing on a specific locale and directing traffic there (even with social/PPC) than going with an empty search box.
blunum 2y ago
Yes agree, its initially hard to get content on the site, showing other places that has some content from the home page is a great idea

jangliss 2y ago

I couldn't find any locations on the Channel Islands. Where did you get your place list?

blunum 2y ago
The list includes places with a population above 10000

robshep 2y ago

"Blunum bils in Xcent only" We tried a variant of this with token/credit-based accounting instead of local current Failed miserably. We learnt that "Confused says no" the hard way. Good luck.

cess11 2y ago

Doesn't show anything unless I run scripts. So I looked at https://blunum.com/manu-4cf782dm4.mjs https://blunum.com/manu-4cf782dm4.mjs, which is kind of weird? Like, why does it define empty functions just to fill out a()-z(), and how is it decided which characters get a non-empty function body? The static data structures holding stuff like currency and country information also make me itchy, as does the convoluted string stitching. Is this the result of some well-known tool?

subpixel 2y ago

As someone who has floundered in this space, some advice: local matters to shoppers less than they will tell you to your face. To consumers, Haddock from Iceland they buy at their local grocery store is local. You cannot disabuse them of this notion while simultaneously taking their money.