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YouTube's "Feedback" feature is a business waiting to happen

Posted by memtap on Friday December 02, 2011 @12:06AM
from the self-post dept.

To measure how well users like its new site design, YouTube has added a rectangular blue tab on the bottom right corner of the site.Upon clicking the link on the tab called 'send feedback', a dialog box appears, giving the viewer an option to highlight sections of the site and leave feedback.There are a number of companies that sell a 'feedback' feature, however none that give the user the...

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Re:Ask HN: How would you beat Craigslist? on Thursday November 24, 2011 @02:34AM (#3273543)

Agreed, PadMapper.con does a really good job of this.

Re:Ask HN: How would you beat Craigslist? on Thursday November 24, 2011 @01:22AM (#3273384)

Definitely agree that Craigslist could be a better site; but what about a better business? It seems that most of the sites that have taken on Craigslist have offered technical improvements; I.e. mobile apps and social integration.

What about non-technical innovation? What about an aggressive, real world sales force that solicits businesses?

Re:Ask HN: How would you beat Craigslist? on Thursday November 24, 2011 @01:17AM (#3273369)

There's always room for new entrants. What about Google overtaking Yahoo and Facebook overtaking MySpace? In hindsight it's easy to point out flaws, but at the time, each of the respective sites were their markets leader.

Ask HN: How would you beat Craigslist?

Posted by memtap on Wednesday November 23, 2011 @11:04PM
from the ask-hn dept.

In terms of traffic, Craigslist is the overwhelming leader in online classifieds. With over 60 million uniques a month, it vastly outsizes competitors Oodle (~4.9 million), Backpages(~3.8 million) and others. Granted, this does not take competitors dedicated to one vertical(i.e. Monster.com for Jobs; Match.com for Personals) into account.My question to you HN, is how would you compete with...

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