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Re: Please review my startup - Online Classifieds

#31

Post by quellhorst »

qeorge wrote: post #26

Things I like: - Design looks nice and clean. I'm impressed that you have a photo of downtown Raleigh on my city's section, that's a nice touch. - Posting interface is simple, and I like that its free. - I like the McAfee secure logo. I know it doesn't mean anything, but the everyday user in me likes seeing it (reinforces trust). Things I think could be improved: - My profile says I'm in Reidsville (geolocated). I ca…

After you make a profile, go to edit your profile and you can add a link to your website. See how I have a link back on my profile. http://www.abtain.com/dan

I'll check into updating the geocoding. Anyway you can tell me your ip address? I'll check to see if any databases have your ip in correctly.

Will take your other comments under consideration in the next deployment. Thanks.

Re: Please review my startup - Online Classifieds

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Post by qeorge »

quellhorst wrote: post #31
qeorge wrote: post #26

Things I like: - Design looks nice and clean. I'm impressed that you have a photo of downtown Raleigh on my city's section, that's a nice touch. - Posting interface is simple, and I like that its free. - I like the McAfee secure logo. I know it doesn't mean anything, but the everyday user in me likes seeing it (reinforces trust). Things I think could be improved: - My profile says I'm in Reidsville (geolocated). I ca…

After you make a profile, go to edit your profile and you can add a link to your website. See how I have a link back on my profile. http://www.abtain.com/dan I'll check into updating the geocoding. Anyway you can tell me your ip address? I'll check to see if any databases have your ip in correctly. Will take your other comments under consideration in the next deployment. Thanks.

Thanks, I see it now. It was linked to my abtain profile, and I didn't realize I could change that to whatever I wanted.

IP: 75.93.212.230. It shows up as Greensboro on most sites, which is just one of the shortcomings of geolocation by IP. So really, I just need to be able to change it.

Re: Please review my startup - Online Classifieds

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Post by quellhorst »

singer wrote: post #34

@quellhorst, what do you think about slightly fading the color of all category links that have no posts? I certainly don't want to browse through categories that I know have no posts.

Oh, I like that much more than showing a number next to the categories.

Re: Please review my startup - Online Classifieds

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Post by singer »

quellhorst wrote: post #35
singer wrote: post #34

@quellhorst, what do you think about slightly fading the color of all category links that have no posts? I certainly don't want to browse through categories that I know have no posts.

Oh, I like that much more than showing a number next to the categories.

It would be primarily helpful on the interior pages (e.g. http://chicago.abtain.com).

Re: Please review my startup - Online Classifieds

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Post by JangoSteve »

Is this really "high traffic" already or is that the end goal?

Also, I couldn't find any actual listings. I saw in the recent activity that "billybob created a post I want a 250f motocross bike about 5 hours ago", but when I clicked on it, it only took me to his profile and had no link to his ad listings, so I still couldn't find it.

It basically seems like a Craigslist, but without the content.

Re: Please review my startup - Online Classifieds

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Post by ewams »

quellhorst wrote: post #8
ewams wrote: post #3

How 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)?

Oh yes, most definitely. I was recently in the market for a new (to me) dirt bike and it was a pain switching around to different local cities and performing searches. And, because I was willing to drive for 2-3 hours to pick it up, some people would say they lived near a larger city to get more hits but when I called them up it turned out they lived like 50+ miles away from said city.
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