Just out of curiosity, why would they not want you to use their classifieds? Unless I am missing something, they don't collect revenue for listings. I thought Craigslist was all about spreading good will. If Pad Mapper provides a more efficient way of spreading that good will, then why not?
As a user of PadMapper, I am very disappointed to see this happen. Craigslist is almost unusable if you don't know the area you are looking to move to.
As best I can tell, it's a matter of corporate philosophy. Craigslist is predicated on local, person-to-person interactions. It has long taken pains to curtail uses of the system which allow aggregation of multiple CL local sites (there is, for example, no convenient way to search all of California for listings), or to include CL listings in third-party services.
As a long-time user of Craigslist, and a recent fan of padmapper, I'm disappointed, to say the least.
I do suspect it's time for some disruption in CL's space.
I had problems installing it on older versions of OSX (Leopard), mainly because I was VERY new at managing the command line and understanding the relationships between ruby, rails, gems, etc and all of the various versions. I later got a new MBP and installing from a new install was very straight forward, but having to upgrade everything first and then installing it wasn't fun for a n00b like me. I would be interested in seeing this project as I think it would be easier for new kids on the rails block.
So I'm learning Rails myself and I'm nervous about the whole deploy to Heroku part / the cost of hosting a small app. Did you have to buy additional Dynos to handle the traffic from HN? $35 for an additional Dyno isn't the end of the world, but shared hosting for $5 a month at railsplayground is a whole lot cheaper for a humble junior developer like me.
The site looks great! Congrats on your first app launch!
nope, haven't paid for anything yet. I'm excited to see how much traffic HN actually brought. Looks like close to 10,000 votes have been registered in a few short hours, but waiting for Google Analytics to catch up to see more.
Jason's show and network is what gave me my entrepreneurial spark a year ago. Great guests and great content. He does need to move the show to SF though. You can only interview LA founders for so long. I've really enjoyed the shows the past few weeks @ CNet and Waze because he has interviewed some of the most prominent tech startups.
Completely agree. The show itself has great content. Jason is a smart guy who is humble enough to be engaging and relatable, and confident enough to ask the right questions and make poignant comments. (Only caveat to this statement is the mailchimp ads. The "eee eee eee" part of these ads make me cringe every time.)
I really would like him to move up to the bay area too but part of me think he's able to take a more critical perspective on startups because he's not physically immersed in the SV culture. It would be really cool to run into him in a starbucks or something though.
I'm not loving the sales theme strategy. I like that it is a different approach and all, but when I have something to sell I'm not going to wait until the right "theme" comes along. If I have a guitar that I want to sell now I shouldn't have to wait until a music theme comes along.
Maybe I am missing something and I would love some direction if anyone can provide it, but it seems like the whole idea is to provide a platform to sell the junk you have lying around in a fast and convenient manner. Waiting until music day to sell my Strat doesn't sound very convenient.
No disrespect to the founders or anything, I'm just a little confused. I love this concept of selling your junk quickly with automated price suggestions, that is brilliant. I'm just lost on the theme angle.
If you mean the expense reimbursements, they will explain upon arrival. (They welcome you and help you get a RUT number, bank account and mobile phone contract.)
Don't worry about those practicalities now - they are taken care of.
As a user of PadMapper, I am very disappointed to see this happen. Craigslist is almost unusable if you don't know the area you are looking to move to.