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16 points by khamoud 13y ago

ExpiredLink 13y ago
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- khamoud 13y ago
  Should be back up. Sorry about that. I upped the instances which might have caused it.
  - btbuildem 13y ago
    still down (or, down again?)
    - khamoud 13y ago
      I'm so sorry about that. It went down again.
michaeldunworth 13y ago
I had a friend that was selling about 20 items a week on instagram. This seems like it would make it easy. Good job!
- Kiro 13y ago
  What kind of stuff is he/she selling?
  - michaeldunworth 13y ago
    She lived in Hong Kong and were selling small electronics (USB sticks/Gadgets/Key rings) Nothing major, just more for fun. EDIT: *was
- ed 13y ago
  Neat! 20 items/wk is impressive. Would love to hear more. (link? :) Are they explicitly running a store? (Rather than posting items from their personal account.)
miguelrochefort 13y ago
I built something very similar earlier this year (http://thingsy.co http://thingsy.co), but pushed the idea even further by posting items to Craigslist/Kijiji/Backpage (using mechanical turk for item recognition). Unfortunately, this couldn't scale because of classified ad websites limitations. To this day, I don't know of any classified ad website that allows massive item listing through an open API. This would seal the deal.
- khamoud 13y ago
  That's awesome! I always figured that there had to be a better way of selling things than Craigslist currently offers. The issue is building an audience. I thought I would try and piggy back on instagram to maybe push me ahead.
  - miguelrochefort 13y ago
    Nobody is going to look for stuff on your website. You need to: A. Find a way to automate posting to Craigslist (good luck). B. Build a better marketplace (semantic?) that aggregates/pull content from Instagram, Vine, Twitter, Etsy, etc. If you do that, you'll need a kickass item recognition system.
giudegio_fubles 13y ago
Great job! What do you think about www.depop.com?
Johnie 13y ago
Chirpify did the same thing. http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/instasale-chirpify-takes-its-in-stream-commerce-service-to-instagram-as-its-twitter-service-continues-to-fly/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/instasale-chirpify-takes-it...
purezero 13y ago
Soldsie also did something similar with Instagram. http://new.soldsie.com/instagram-selling/ http://new.soldsie.com/instagram-selling/. Looks like social commerce is heating heating up as companies are looking for a way to really get social to contribute to overall ecommerce.

16 points by khamoud 13y ago

ExpiredLink 13y ago

> Internal Server Error

khamoud 13y ago
Should be back up. Sorry about that. I upped the instances which might have caused it.
- btbuildem 13y ago
  still down (or, down again?)
  - khamoud 13y ago
    I'm so sorry about that. It went down again.

michaeldunworth 13y ago

I had a friend that was selling about 20 items a week on instagram. This seems like it would make it easy. Good job!

Kiro 13y ago
What kind of stuff is he/she selling?
- michaeldunworth 13y ago
  She lived in Hong Kong and were selling small electronics (USB sticks/Gadgets/Key rings) Nothing major, just more for fun. EDIT: *was
ed 13y ago
Neat! 20 items/wk is impressive. Would love to hear more. (link? :) Are they explicitly running a store? (Rather than posting items from their personal account.)

miguelrochefort 13y ago

I built something very similar earlier this year (http://thingsy.co http://thingsy.co), but pushed the idea even further by posting items to Craigslist/Kijiji/Backpage (using mechanical turk for item recognition). Unfortunately, this couldn't scale because of classified ad websites limitations. To this day, I don't know of any classified ad website that allows massive item listing through an open API. This would seal the deal.

khamoud 13y ago
That's awesome! I always figured that there had to be a better way of selling things than Craigslist currently offers. The issue is building an audience. I thought I would try and piggy back on instagram to maybe push me ahead.
- miguelrochefort 13y ago
  Nobody is going to look for stuff on your website. You need to: A. Find a way to automate posting to Craigslist (good luck). B. Build a better marketplace (semantic?) that aggregates/pull content from Instagram, Vine, Twitter, Etsy, etc. If you do that, you'll need a kickass item recognition system.

giudegio_fubles 13y ago

Great job! What do you think about www.depop.com?

Johnie 13y ago

Chirpify did the same thing. http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/instasale-chirpify-takes-its-in-stream-commerce-service-to-instagram-as-its-twitter-service-continues-to-fly/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/23/instasale-chirpify-takes-it...

purezero 13y ago

Soldsie also did something similar with Instagram. http://new.soldsie.com/instagram-selling/ http://new.soldsie.com/instagram-selling/. Looks like social commerce is heating heating up as companies are looking for a way to really get social to contribute to overall ecommerce.