Ask HN: Industries Ripe For Disruption? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Industries Ripe For Disruption?

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Post by bemmu » Fri, Feb 13, 2009, 12:06 AM UTC

webwright wrote: post #94

bemmu wrote: post #43

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Wow, Quantcast/Compete estimate their monthly users to be 6-9 million. Their AdSense account must be quite healthy. I wonder how they got granted access to the data from the first few sites they index.

Yaw I was in the jobs industry. There's simplyhired.com and jobster.com ... 6-9 million uniques isn't really worth the funding any of them received, I don't think. They didn't ask permission for the data any more than Google did. Scrape/index/refresh/repeat.

CPM for a job site must be something really nice, at least $5. Perhaps they have around 50M pageviews per month, so that would make $250,000 / month. Maybe valuation should be about $15M? Indeed got $5M in funding, so that seems fine. Simplyhired got $17M, that does seem on the high side.

Re: Ask HN: Industries Ripe For Disruption?

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Post by tontoa4 » Mon, Feb 16, 2009, 9:24 AM UTC

khafra wrote: post #100

tontoa4 wrote: post #70

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I'm working on the motorcycle equivalent at MotoListr.com.

Your interface is cleaner and more attractive, but cycletrader.com is a pretty well established competitor. Do you have a plan for beating them along any particular axis?

My plan is better dealer support. Direct line to my cell phone.

Re: Ask HN: Industries Ripe For Disruption?

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Post by masonlee » Tue, Mar 03, 2009, 10:38 AM UTC

eli wrote: post #92

masonlee wrote: post #87

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There are still a lot of innovations you can make here without replacing the SMS backbone wholesale. For example, users interact with user interfaces, not messaging layers. If you can get people using your interface, you can switch the messaging layer where appropriate. Notice Google now sending IM to SMS? At my startup, Borange, we send group SMS for free on the iPhone, and are working with metadata and a user inter…

You mean like 3jam, Limbo, sms.ac, Zemble, Google's Dodgeball, Yahoo's ill-fated "Mixd," and a dozen others who are no longer around and I forgot about? Jeez, I truly do wish you guys luck, but group/social SMS is a pretty tough nut to crack. (I used to cover the mobile industry for a trade publication.)

Well not exactly... The work we are doing at Borange is more concerned with scheduling and availability than sending group SMS, and my main point was that there are possible strategies for migrating people off of SMS by including SMS compatibility. It's the lowest common denominator in mobile messaging, and you really can't afford not to include it to some degree for moving forward.

Yeah, crazy dead heap there, though! How long until SMS joins it? :)