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The other interesting point is that some of them don't appear to actually look any more impressive now...

As far as I can see Nextdoor is a zero-revenue me-too social network with <1million daily active users after four years, whose main distinction is that they've raised >$200 million. Maybe it's the slickest thing on the planet, fantastic at engaging its relatively tiny number of daily users and it'll take over the world once people like me are able to join. But could it also be a VC mugpunt on either growth or a flip to Google/Facebook with some serious liquidation preferences underpinning that valuation?

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Regarding nextdoor, I've been amazed to see the level to which city/local government is using it, at least in my city. Perhaps the most effective civic engagement tool to hit the streets since Ward Heelers (who were of course much better).

I think Nextdoor is still very likely to become a mainstay of the web. It's served as a great way to find plumbers, get used stuff, meet neighbors, learn about civic projects, complain about local businesses that do bad things, etc...

It's well on it's way to replace things like Yelp and even Criagslist or AngiesList. It has a lot of potential, which is why they've been able to raise so much. I'm also pretty sure they have much much more than a million users.

Where'd you get the stats on Nextdoor? Really thought they'd have more than 1mm DAU's.

It's largely a guesstimate (open only to around a third of neighbourhoods in a country with population <300M; assume less than 1% of potential user base of ~100M is active on a daily basis) and so entirely possible I'm wrong, though I think my penetration figures are reasonable for this type of network, particularly with the company afaik purposely not announcing any impressive engagement metrics or milestones for user numbers.

I live in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, which has about 50,000 people in 3-4 square miles, depending on how you count it. I just signed up for NextDoor (and I find it incredibly creepy that they publicly display my address by default), and found that there are 1200 people who have signed up out of 50,000 possible users. 2.4% is probably a high water mark for signups, and it looks like only a couple hundred people participate on here regularly.

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