3 ms·
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/B
by 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 agoThat'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 agoNobody 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.