Comments on: media group launches craigslist competitor

By: Kris

Kris — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:16:22 +0000

What about RegionalHelpWanted.com? We received more than 1 million sites to one of our sites HudsonValleyHelpWanted.com and we have 362 others that get equally high numbers. This would make us close to half a million views each month in total

By: John Dalton

John Dalton — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:17:18 +0000

Not being negative but how many more ’startups’ want to do something similar. Maybe there isnt enough job sites and classifieds sites yet?
Then again with cheezhead and other big resources site providing a job section now, im no longer surprised.

By: brad

brad — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:08:31 +0000

Any one with a little money to buy a craigslist clone and to say they are launching a website to compete with craigslist, kijiji(Ebay) or oodle(Wal-Mart). Their website looks like it was bought off those clone sites. Please do Some real story telling and check out some of the smaller classified ads start-ups that are out there! Like Ziark.com or Superads.com and many others. Do a Real Story For Once!

By: Shai Shefer

Shai Shefer — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:40:03 +0000

The situation with online classifieds looks pretty interesting…

Oodle is growing pretty quickly and has 3M unique visitors per month, compared to craigslist ~45M. What sets Oodle apart is that the interface is much more refined/stylized and it has the massive partner deals with facebook and others. Oodle gained about 1M visitors since November, but again, craigslist seems to have gained about 10x as many users over the same time period.

ForWant.com looks like its trying to compete with craigslist by offering a worse navigation interface combined with ads on every page. Not sure how they’re planning on making it grow.

I think for now craigslist is still the household name and seems more authentic and honest. The fact that it’s simple and has no annoying ads like the others is something I’ve come to appreciate.

*I used compete.com for visitor count

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:10:50 +0000

Vanessa,
I just realized that Oodle was given an article on Cheezhead about it’s funding. You don’t have to post my most recent comment. I should have dug more in the past articles before I chimed in. -Linda

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:58:59 +0000

Vanessa,
Is this something similar to the site called Oodle.com? It, too, has classified listings for jobs and property although I am not sure it’s intention is to compete directly with Monster, Craigslist or Careerbuilder. I read that Oodle recently raised $6.5 million in capital and I think it is supposed to take over Facebook’s “marketplace”. I’m not sure but it seems like a likely competitor as well.

By: Martin Zwilling

Martin Zwilling — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:47:35 +0000

I’m impressed to see that there are still startups willing to launch, even in the face of a couple of billion dollar competitors and a recession. Most of my startup clients are hunkered down, but I believe there is still opportunity out there for the ones with the right stuff, as I wrote in http://blog.startupprofessionals.com/2009/02/right-stuff-will-prosper-in-recession.html. Good luck to them.
Marty Zwilling, Founder & CEO, Startup Professionals, Inc.