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Yeah, I'm in a similar position. Every time I have to use Craigslist I come much closer to hating the team behind it. I mean, I know it's probably not rational, but I think they are being shitty people for locking up so much useful data behind a site that is designed to be miserable to use. It's pretty evil when you get down to it. It's obvious they don't care about users.


What's stopping someone from making a craiglist like website with an awesome UI?


It's hard to compete with a site that is both free and "everyone" uses already. Both of those are very strong barriers to entry.


Very true.


The challenge in building a brand and an audience that Craigslist has assembled.

If you build it, doesn't automatically mean that they will come.


network effects




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