Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. This link is loaded with about 37K listings scraped from recovery.org.
Some more questions:)
- How would you handle spam?
- How long would an ad stay?
- Would users not be worry of revealing their location?
(for security reasons?)
- How would a 70yr old lady from Peoria use the service
to find a roommate?
- If you notice in South Africa the farmers if they are
interested in an ad, they will tear a small piece of
paper from the bottom of the ad. Drag and drop?
- Give an alternative view to the textbox at left, if there
are too many ads. Let them read like classifieds ie some
additional styling.
- Each posting has a spam link on it, if you click it the posting will disappear for you. Once enough different people click it the posting is deleted.
- Currently postings don't expire but are displayed time decayed. i.e. most recent first. Hopefully we can get enough traffic to where we have to address this :-)
- You don't have to enter your full address when you post. You can enter your town and the posting will be placed in the center of the town. You decide how much locational information to give out
- We need to get over the chicken and egg problem of enough postings first
Thanks for all the feedback!
Suggestion use the ebay API to populate (it can also bring some affiliate income).
Any thought for exposing your API. I think this can be a great application to foster micro-communities.
Yes, we have discussed allowing private or subscription townfliers for micro-communities. That might be the next step.