Another site which might be a competitor:
Nicely designed but I don't think that they have a very large userbase.
Ask HN: Review my start up please: List Central
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Re: Ask HN: Review my start up please: List Central
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The first thing I did after reading this comment was check your profile creation date and your karma. To each his own, but I was totally unimpressed with this site. I judge "start-ups" (really a Web app) in this case by a few metrics, but the first test is always this: does this start-up solve a problem? I don't think it does. Anyone who wants to create a top ten list can do it from any blogging platform and several…
To me, Twitter did not really seem to solve an existing problem at first, but people liked it, and it caught on. Same with Farmville. Personally I think the site has a good foundation as far as look and feel for a site aimed at the general public. This is just a new out of the box site. Let's see where they iterate to in 6 to 9 months. I think they have a good foundation to build on.
I can't believe I was such a dick in that comment above. Must have been a bad day. I still don't like the service, but I shouldn't have taken that karma police tone on.