Craigslist and why it survived the bubble

Re:Craigslist and why it survived the bubble by bootload on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @09:14PM (#2642)

Just the data: Cragslist survived because it was not *greedy*. The founders recognised that community matters and only charge small fees for placement. CL as a team are also pretty smart because they cannibalised newspaper listings. CL saw the market before the newspapers & seized it.

From memory CL currently runs on about USD20 Million / year gained form paid adverts. No fancy designs, just the data.

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Re:Craigslist and why it survived the bubble by dougw on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @03:46PM (#2753)

Indeed, it has been widely noted that craigslist's authenic feel (hyped by the .org TLD) and community fostering ruggedness has created a cult-like following. It seems that their lack of graphics, change, and heavy UI development has kept the installed user base, well, installed, and growing.

http://www.startupnation.com/pages/newsroom/PR_2006_0128.asp

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Re:Craigslist and why it survived the bubble by bootload on Friday March 16, 2007 @11:47PM (#4686)

'... lack of graphics, change, and heavy UI development ...'

this is also a cheapskate way of concentrating on the development & lowering costs. Such cutting edge (performance wise) technology reminds me of the Mercedes Benz silver cars ~ http://tinyurl.com/2ufx36 ~ so called because they stripped back the paint to save pounds to enter Le Mons. In this case stripping back graphics to allow good scaling.

Thanks for the link.

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