Craigslist Suing Padmapper
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Craigslist Suing Padmapper
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Re: Craigslist Suing Padmapper
#2When you can't beat them, sue them into the ground.
Craigslist is one of the poorest user experiences around and succeeds only because people insist on using it. The alternatives somehow manage to be even more spectacularly useless by over-designing their apps and cluttering them up with junk.
Padmapper is one of the few that does what they're supposed to do, and it's not even an optimal implementation of this sort of thing.
Re: Craigslist Suing Padmapper
#3When you can't beat them, sue them into the ground. Craigslist is one of the poorest user experiences around and succeeds only because people insist on using it. The alternatives somehow manage to be even more spectacularly useless by over-designing their apps and cluttering them up with junk. Padmapper is one of the few that does what they're supposed to do, and it's not even an optimal implementation of this sort o…
When you can't beat them, steal their work product.
Padmapper is (indirectly) screen-scraping Craigslist's data in an attempt to unseat Craigslist.
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#4When you can't beat them, sue them into the ground. Craigslist is one of the poorest user experiences around and succeeds only because people insist on using it. The alternatives somehow manage to be even more spectacularly useless by over-designing their apps and cluttering them up with junk. Padmapper is one of the few that does what they're supposed to do, and it's not even an optimal implementation of this sort o…
When you can't beat them, steal their work product. Padmapper is (indirectly) screen-scraping Craigslist's data in an attempt to unseat Craigslist.
> in an attempt to unseat Craigslist.
Unseat Craigslist as the undisputed champion of what, exactly? Cartographical apartment hunting?
Re: Craigslist Suing Padmapper
#5When you can't beat them, sue them into the ground. Craigslist is one of the poorest user experiences around and succeeds only because people insist on using it. The alternatives somehow manage to be even more spectacularly useless by over-designing their apps and cluttering them up with junk. Padmapper is one of the few that does what they're supposed to do, and it's not even an optimal implementation of this sort o…
> Craigslist is one of the poorest user experiences around and succeeds only because people insist on using it.
So, to paraphrase, it only succeeds because something about it attracts customers. As opposed to other sites, which succeed by fairy dust and rainbows.
If padmapper has a great user experience, that's wonderful -- They should be able to get customers to post their listings on it, and generate data without relying on Craigslist. Or, if they rely on Craigslist, and what the article said is true, they could have negociated a license to the data, instead of scraping it.
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#6Who didn't see this coming? I almost feel bad for Padmapper, but not really, because they should have known better.
Re: Craigslist Suing Padmapper
#7When you can't beat them, sue them into the ground. Craigslist is one of the poorest user experiences around and succeeds only because people insist on using it. The alternatives somehow manage to be even more spectacularly useless by over-designing their apps and cluttering them up with junk. Padmapper is one of the few that does what they're supposed to do, and it's not even an optimal implementation of this sort o…
I am sure Craigslist has many more users than Padmapper. It would he hard to argue that Craigslist can't "beat" them.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you can't beat them, steal their work product. Padmapper is (indirectly) screen-scraping Craigslist's data in an attempt to unseat Craigslist.
> in an attempt to unseat Craigslist. Unseat Craigslist as the undisputed champion of what, exactly? Cartographical apartment hunting?
They are the champion of free listings, and built a huge user base around their dead simple platform.
Re: Craigslist Suing Padmapper
#9Does anybody know if Craigslist is cracking down on all the Craigslist iPhone apps?
Re: Craigslist Suing Padmapper
#10Here's a nugget from the article which I didn't hear anything about in the previous Padmapper postings and chat here on HN:
"The company said it offered a license that would have allowed PadMapper to use its data on mobile applications but that the competitor did not accept the terms."