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Show HN: We made Craigslist for the university that I will be attending.

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Re: Show HN: We made Craigslist for the university that I will be attending.

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Post by aashaykumar92 »

Good luck, hope it takes off there! I go to Michigan and this space has become annoyingly saturated...there are 3 or 4 student-startups focused on building a 'Craigslist for Michigan students' and none of them have had an edge. My only advice would be to make your loyal users a priority and hopefully more will come...I'm willing to bet there will be at least one more service like yours that already exists at Penn or will exist shortly.

Re: Show HN: We made Craigslist for the university that I will be attending.

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Post by acbart »

aashaykumar92 wrote: post #3

Good luck, hope it takes off there! I go to Michigan and this space has become annoyingly saturated...there are 3 or 4 student-startups focused on building a 'Craigslist for Michigan students' and none of them have had an edge. My only advice would be to make your loyal users a priority and hopefully more will come...I'm willing to bet there will be at least one more service like yours that already exists at Penn or…

As an upper class student in CS, I've become completely soured on all the students who want to make the "X for UD" and "Y for VT". I feel like I've seen it all: textbook buyback, craigslist, even some students who want to make it so that you can get change back on your credit card (I don't know why that's cropped up twice). Nowadays, I have to roll my eyes internally when a bushy-tailed, bright-eyed youngster describes their plan for dominating the market where so many others have failed (but I have to sign an NDA first!).

Re: Show HN: We made Craigslist for the university that I will be attending.

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Post by maxucho »

squigs25 wrote: post #2

Nice! What stack are you using?

I'm the developer for this site, and we're using Node.js w/Express, MongoDB, and deployed on Heroku. Mongo might not scale super well for this kind of thing, but for ease of development you really can't beat it.

Re: Show HN: We made Craigslist for the university that I will be attending.

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Post by degenerate »

maxucho wrote: post #5
squigs25 wrote: post #2

Nice! What stack are you using?

I'm the developer for this site, and we're using Node.js w/Express, MongoDB, and deployed on Heroku. Mongo might not scale super well for this kind of thing, but for ease of development you really can't beat it.

I really like how speedy the site feels -- searched your source and found this: http://instantclick.io/

Preloading pages on hover before the user clicks? Genius idea for a library. I'm gonna give this a try soon.

Re: Show HN: We made Craigslist for the university that I will be attending.

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Post by maxucho »

degenerate wrote: post #9
maxucho wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm the developer for this site, and we're using Node.js w/Express, MongoDB, and deployed on Heroku. Mongo might not scale super well for this kind of thing, but for ease of development you really can't beat it.

I really like how speedy the site feels -- searched your source and found this: http://instantclick.io/ Preloading pages on hover before the user clicks? Genius idea for a library. I'm gonna give this a try soon.

Yeah we found that library posted on HN a few days ago, and figured since we have very low traffic right now we'd have nothing to lose with a library like this (even with the additional requests it sometimes incurs when a user hovers but doesn't click). It's so fast now I'm not sure I could ever bear to build a site without it ever again.
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