Comments on: Y Combinator Challenge #25 – Craigslist Competitor http://astartupaday.com/2008/09/17/y-combinator-challenge-25-craigslist-competitor/ Each day I'll post an idea for a new Web 2.0 startup Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:13:45 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Kevin http://astartupaday.com/2008/09/17/y-combinator-challenge-25-craigslist-competitor/#comment-3585 Kevin Tue, 23 Sep 2008 06:08:53 +0000 http://astartupaday.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/y-combinator-challenge-25-craigslist-competitor/#comment-3585 Hey Mark, good to hear from you again! Appreciate the comments, and agree this is pretty complicated. The niche approach is probably the best. However, I still think that there's gotta be some way to tie traditional newspaper classifieds into the web, and not just having each newspaper maintain their own weak implementations. It's like how everyone thought that web video was going to kill traditional TV, and then Hulu came out and just nailed the implementation. Hey Mark, good to hear from you again! Appreciate the comments, and agree this is pretty complicated. The niche approach is probably the best. However, I still think that there’s gotta be some way to tie traditional newspaper classifieds into the web, and not just having each newspaper maintain their own weak implementations. It’s like how everyone thought that web video was going to kill traditional TV, and then Hulu came out and just nailed the implementation.

]]> By: Mark http://astartupaday.com/2008/09/17/y-combinator-challenge-25-craigslist-competitor/#comment-3577 Mark Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:58:16 +0000 http://astartupaday.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/y-combinator-challenge-25-craigslist-competitor/#comment-3577 This sounds way too complex. At the end of the day, it will be difficult to knock off craigslist because they are primarily free and the consumers of the product do not have to pay a dime. One of the reasons why plentyoffish was able to gain a foothold because it is free and its competitors are not. While craigslist charges for some of its listings, the users don't have to pay a dime. The issue at hand is that Craigslist works! The knockoffs have to be much more defined and much more niche to make sense. That's how elance and the others survive for computer related gigs. They solved your issue, on a niche basis. This sounds way too complex. At the end of the day, it will be difficult to knock off craigslist because they are primarily free and the consumers of the product do not have to pay a dime. One of the reasons why plentyoffish was able to gain a foothold because it is free and its competitors are not. While craigslist charges for some of its listings, the users don’t have to pay a dime.

The issue at hand is that Craigslist works! The knockoffs have to be much more defined and much more niche to make sense. That’s how elance and the others survive for computer related gigs. They solved your issue, on a niche basis.

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