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The reason that Craigslist is popular is because there is no BS involved. It's plaintext. You click on something—it loads. It does not ask you where you are or try to sneak info from your browser. It doesn't stop loading while it's doing goofy Microsoft stuff. It doesn't stop loading while it harvests your personal info. It's dead simple.

I'd suggest you emulate this, above all else.

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nah, this is more for fun than anything. And Geo loc is not sneaky microsoft stuff. All im doing is detecting your location.

I made this in a weekend by myself so I think its pretty cool even if everyone on HN thinks its lame. Thanks for the suggestion though.

I don't mean to be all negative or rain on your parade; it's just that you presented this as a replacement for a certain pat of Craigslist. But what you appear to be designing is something very different. It won't really attract that audience. And in particular, I agree with other commenters that people browsing such a service explicitly do NOT want the site harvesting their location info. That's an example of something they'd want to avoid.

I dont think its very diffrent; the goal here is for girls to check in and then you can find them via search and video chat / txt or call them. Thats the same value prop that CL Erotic section had. If you are saying you dont like how I am going about that then that is possibly a valid good point. Are you saying bad product or product / market fit? This is my first node project and it kind of took a few twist and turns but whatever... I might just make it something else if that does not work out.

Dont get discouraged, there will always be people who dont like what you do. And it is often this group that floods you with messages, those who like your product are too busy using your product to message you =) fact of life

I would like to at least know what I'm getting in trade for allowing the app to know my location. As it is, I load the site, it displays a blank page with a weird icon on the left, and it immediately asks for the location ... and I have not done anything yet.

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