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App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way

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Re: App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way

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Post by ActVen »

sunkan wrote: post #3

I am the OP and CoFounder of Mokriya, the company that built Mokriya Craigslist. It has innovative UI that is never seen before in any other apps. Would love to know what HN thinks of the App. It is a complete redesign of Craigslist on Mobile from the ground up, with innovative UI. Here is some press about the app. http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/02/20/craigslist-ap... http://techland.time.com/2013/02/20/its…

Great work on the app. It is not only useful...but a joy to use. The small design touches make all the difference.

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Post by Bjoern »

sunkan wrote: post #3

I am the OP and CoFounder of Mokriya, the company that built Mokriya Craigslist. It has innovative UI that is never seen before in any other apps. Would love to know what HN thinks of the App. It is a complete redesign of Craigslist on Mobile from the ground up, with innovative UI. Here is some press about the app. http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/02/20/craigslist-ap... http://techland.time.com/2013/02/20/its…

The app looks really sleek and well designed. Could you give us some idea of your development process and how you approached this problem?

I am curious to learn more also about what kind of tools and libraries you used, if you have the time to elaborate.

Thanks !

Re: App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way

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Post by suyash »

sunkan wrote: post #3

I am the OP and CoFounder of Mokriya, the company that built Mokriya Craigslist. It has innovative UI that is never seen before in any other apps. Would love to know what HN thinks of the App. It is a complete redesign of Craigslist on Mobile from the ground up, with innovative UI. Here is some press about the app. http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/02/20/craigslist-ap... http://techland.time.com/2013/02/20/its…

I have 2 questions for you: 1. What kind of license did you get from CL? 2. CL does not even have an API, how did you scrape the data?

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Post by sunkan »

brodney wrote: post #8
sunkan wrote: post #3

I am the OP and CoFounder of Mokriya, the company that built Mokriya Craigslist. It has innovative UI that is never seen before in any other apps. Would love to know what HN thinks of the App. It is a complete redesign of Craigslist on Mobile from the ground up, with innovative UI. Here is some press about the app. http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/02/20/craigslist-ap... http://techland.time.com/2013/02/20/its…

I have been looking for housing for the last few weeks in Atlanta. I just downloaded your app to try it out looking for apartments. The UI is great. Really snappy, sensible, and out of the way. Well done. However, there are some content issues with the map. It seems that it's only loading a page or two of listings. I checked a moment ago the area I'm looking at and there were 20 or so listings but the app shows no li…

That seems to be a bug or those missing listings do not have lat/long. We will look into it and try to fix it. I wish craigslist provided API access to their data. Also there are licensing restrictions, so we do all the processing on the client and the app has no server component.

Re: App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

nanijoe wrote: post #6

There are only about 7 million iPhone and Android apps that let you browse craigslist..I don't see what makes this one different. @ethanparker, you can try to be a little less obvious when upvoting a product you are associated with

I find the post interesting for a number of reasons:

1. Despite being aware of the past issues other startups had had with CL, I was _not_ aware that there was a legit and not incredibly onerous licensing option (even if it isn't suited for everything).

2. I've tried some of the "7 million" other mobile apps and I've yet to find one that I didn't feel was at least a little sketchy. I'm happy to find one that is at least trying to push forward with a little polish and design ingenuity.

Re: App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way

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Post by justjimmy »

It's always fun to experience new patterns and interactions.

In case you're looking for feedback:

1. The location selection is reversed - ie: when I am selecting the city, the State (smaller column showing only 2 letters) should be on the left not right, since you're drilling down. (But for category selection, you have it the 'right' way, with the higher level/smaller column on the left).

2. There's something going on with the top stroke at the top of the app, below the 20px black status bar - it seems to get shorter then longer whenever I tap the search icon top right. I noticed it since it was quite jarring.

Really enjoy the full width pictures in the listings!

Re: App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way

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Post by jarjar500 »

sunkan wrote: post #3

I am the OP and CoFounder of Mokriya, the company that built Mokriya Craigslist. It has innovative UI that is never seen before in any other apps. Would love to know what HN thinks of the App. It is a complete redesign of Craigslist on Mobile from the ground up, with innovative UI. Here is some press about the app. http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/02/20/craigslist-ap... http://techland.time.com/2013/02/20/its…

did u guys built the app on native iOS or html5 (phonegap, titanium framework ) - well done on the UI

Re: App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way

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Post by ActVen »

sunkan wrote: post #3

I am the OP and CoFounder of Mokriya, the company that built Mokriya Craigslist. It has innovative UI that is never seen before in any other apps. Would love to know what HN thinks of the App. It is a complete redesign of Craigslist on Mobile from the ground up, with innovative UI. Here is some press about the app. http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/02/20/craigslist-ap... http://techland.time.com/2013/02/20/its…

What was your thought process behind placing the titles at the bottom of the images rather than the top when you scroll through listings? It was an interesting choice and I wondered if you have any specific reasons for it.

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Post by sunkan »

jarjar500 wrote: post #17
sunkan wrote: post #3

I am the OP and CoFounder of Mokriya, the company that built Mokriya Craigslist. It has innovative UI that is never seen before in any other apps. Would love to know what HN thinks of the App. It is a complete redesign of Craigslist on Mobile from the ground up, with innovative UI. Here is some press about the app. http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/02/20/craigslist-ap... http://techland.time.com/2013/02/20/its…

did u guys built the app on native iOS or html5 (phonegap, titanium framework ) - well done on the UI

All development was done using native development tools on iOS and Android.

Re: App Developer Makes Craigslist Mobile, the Legal Way

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Post by sunkan »

suyash wrote: post #13
sunkan wrote: post #3

I am the OP and CoFounder of Mokriya, the company that built Mokriya Craigslist. It has innovative UI that is never seen before in any other apps. Would love to know what HN thinks of the App. It is a complete redesign of Craigslist on Mobile from the ground up, with innovative UI. Here is some press about the app. http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2013/02/20/craigslist-ap... http://techland.time.com/2013/02/20/its…

I have 2 questions for you: 1. What kind of license did you get from CL? 2. CL does not even have an API, how did you scrape the data?

1. There is some upfront fee and they get a percentage cut of the revenue we make.

2. You are right, craigslist doesn't have an API, so whether you are licensed or not, you have the same tools at your disposal. We did typical HTML scraping, but our amazing Dev team did some really smart tweaks to present the data in a beautiful way.

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