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Ask HN: Review my Startup, MotoListr.com

8 pointsby tontoa4over 16 years ago
Hello All,<p>My startup is called MotoListr @ http://motolistr.com<p>The website is a motorcycle classified site that's incredibly simple. The first page you come to is the actual searching application. The default is to show ALL motorcycles.<p>I started the site because I got fed up with competing sites with more advertisements than content, and broken and non-intuitive search/sort functions.<p>This is my first end to end project, I taught myself PHP/MySQL along the way.<p>Please let me know your first impressions/opinions of the site.<p>Thank you, Nick

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satyajitover 16 years ago
Not much happening here, but a very simple interface. Clear, easy to navigate. Though little basic. Sending email page has funny question "Are you human?" - isn't that too easy to crack? You don't even take 'y' as an answer, only obvious ans is 'yes'!<p>From biz perspective - how do you plan to monetize? By $9 listing? What would this provide that Craigslist doesn't? Sorry to sound -ve, but I just wonder... because I am dealing with similar questions about monetization in my startup, though in a diff space. All the best!
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sam_in_nycover 16 years ago
This is an idea that requires reaching a "tipping point" in order for it to work. It could work, but you're going to need a solid strategy for getting people to adopt this over, say, craigslist or one of 20 other classified sites.<p>Being "incredibly simple," at this point, is probably not enough to get enough people using it.<p>Best of luck
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tontoa4over 16 years ago
Clickable link / <a href="http://motolistr.com" rel="nofollow">http://motolistr.com</a>
eli_sover 16 years ago
Looks good to me - from what I can tell bike riders seem to be pretty tight bunch so if you get a few on board they'll probably recommend you to their friends.<p>On this page: <a href="http://motolistr.com/listing/316" rel="nofollow">http://motolistr.com/listing/316</a><p>The 'Email Seller' box is after the fold. This is the most important part of your page it needs to be right at the top next to the image of the bike.<p>Your design would probably work well with a fluid layout too. It takes a lot more work but if you do it right then you will get a better experience for small and large screen sizes.