Craigslist Casualty: The Story of ApartmentsNearMetro.com

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Post by wlindner » Sun, Feb 10, 2013, 10:29 PM UTC

Craigslist Casualty: The Story of ApartmentsNearMetro.com
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Re: Craigslist Casualty: The Story of ApartmentsNearMetro.com

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Post by derwiki » Sun, Feb 10, 2013, 10:51 PM UTC

`http://trycourier.com/?utm_source=anm-blog` linked in the post seems to 403.

Re: Craigslist Casualty: The Story of ApartmentsNearMetro.com

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Post by wlindner » Sun, Feb 10, 2013, 11:03 PM UTC

derwiki wrote: post #2

` http://trycourier.com/?utm_source=anm-blog` linked in the post seems to 403.

Sorry about that, it's just http://trycourier.com, I fixed the link. Thanks!

Re: Craigslist Casualty: The Story of ApartmentsNearMetro.com

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Post by jdavis703 » Sun, Feb 10, 2013, 11:07 PM UTC

I had that exact same pain point in 2011. It's too bad the Craigslist refuses to innovate or let others innovate on their platform.

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Post by homedog » Sun, Feb 10, 2013, 11:21 PM UTC

It's the inevitable fate for anything that uses CL for data. CL is too afraid of competition, yet refuses to innovate. It's a shame.

Re: Craigslist Casualty: The Story of ApartmentsNearMetro.com

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Post by wlindner » Sun, Feb 10, 2013, 11:22 PM UTC

jdavis703 wrote: post #4

I had that exact same pain point in 2011. It's too bad the Craigslist refuses to innovate or let others innovate on their platform.

Yeah! It almost seems like a source of pride for them... What were you working on that got squashed by Craigslist?

Re: Craigslist Casualty: The Story of ApartmentsNearMetro.com

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Post by pm90 » Sun, Feb 10, 2013, 11:50 PM UTC

If the application is blocked, can the author please openSource the script? If everyone starts using the script, I believe it will be quite impossible for CL to block it.

Re: Craigslist Casualty: The Story of ApartmentsNearMetro.com

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Post by wlindner » Sun, Feb 10, 2013, 11:54 PM UTC

pm90 wrote: post #7

If the application is blocked, can the author please openSource the script? If everyone starts using the script, I believe it will be quite impossible for CL to block it.

Yeah, that's a good idea. Craigslist basically blocked any connections from Google App Engine to their domain. But, if you ran the site from your own computer, they wouldn't really have any way to block it.

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Post by TimMontague » Mon, Feb 11, 2013, 12:02 AM UTC

FYI: this is unreadable on my WP8 device. The screen width is set smaller than the text width so I have so scroll left and right for every line.

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Post by alanctgardner2 » Mon, Feb 11, 2013, 12:03 AM UTC

TimMontague wrote: post #9

FYI: this is unreadable on my WP8 device. The screen width is set smaller than the text width so I have so scroll left and right for every line.

I think the easy fix for this (for the benefit of the poster) is to use a meta tag to set the "viewport" attribute to 100%.