Please review my startup - Online Classifieds
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Re: Please review my startup - Online Classifieds
#2It has a very spammy look to it. I don't know exactly what it is that causes this, but it looks "dubious".
Re: Please review my startup - Online Classifieds
#3How is this different than craigslist? It looks nicer, but you have the same feel of how to find things. Why can't I search all of the USA? Or a region. Or search a whole state? I hate clicking around to different cities to try and find something.
Posting is easy. Making an account is easy. Managing postings is easy. http://www.abtain.com/posts/manage has a field for price but I do not see a place to enter that in the posting.
Good work.
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#4Also some of the categories are empty. I looked for IT and Software Jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area, and it has nothing. It might be better to start with a narrower focus and solve the chicken-and-egg problem first. If you have posts, then you'll get readers, and then you'll get more posts.
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#5It has a very spammy look to it. I don't know exactly what it is that causes this, but it looks "dubious".
Someone mentioned that it was because the blue links look like domain squatting pages.
I only recently changed the links to be blue underlined after hearing a presentation from bing about how a specific color of blue performed better.
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#6The prefix ab denotes 'away' or 'from'. Similar to the word abstain; abstain from sex, abstain from voting, and seemingly opposite of obtain.
Just gives a weird feeling and vibe.
Re: Please review my startup - Online Classifieds
#7Lack of search would put me off using it.
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#8How is this different than craigslist? It looks nicer, but you have the same feel of how to find things. Why can't I search all of the USA? Or a region. Or search a whole state? I hate clicking around to different cities to try and find something. Posting is easy. Making an account is easy. Managing postings is easy. http://www.abtain.com/posts/manage has a field for price but I do not see a place to enter that in th…
I have sphinx search in the backend but turned it off because the number of posts is limited.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into making browsing/searching across regions better.
Do you think it would be useful if you are visiting a category in your local city to see posts from other nearby cities (within 150 miles)?
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#9The prefix ab denotes 'away' or 'from'. Similar to the word abstain; abstain from sex, abstain from voting, and seemingly opposite of obtain. Just gives a weird feeling and vibe.
Oh interesting. Maybe opposite of obtain would be to sell/give away something?
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#10Also some of the categories are empty. I looked for IT and Software Jobs in the San Francisco Bay Area, and it has nothing. It might be better to start with a narrower focus and solve the chicken-and-egg problem first. If you have posts, then you'll get readers, and then you'll get more posts.
I heard that elsewhere too. Considering going after a niche, like only one specific category/section thats currently on the site.
Will take some research to know which one.