A few months ago I got fed up with the general state of online classified sites. They suck. They really suck.<p>I started YourGrounds.com as a way to remedy this travesty. Yourgrounds takes the ambiguity out of searching, and you no longer have to spend hours searching through postings.<p>Here's what we did - you can create a wishlist that searches even when you aren't on the site - if the site matches what you're looking for to something someones posts, it will notify you.<p>Simply put, I want you guys to tell me what you think.<p>Use the code: hackernews during your registration, there are 100 slots open right now.<p>There's still work to be done, and I want to know how I can make this the best possible site for everybody.<p>Enjoy!<p>If you have personal thoughts, questions or comments, you can direct them to brendan@yourgrounds.com
People have diverse complaints about Craigslist, although it's free and in general, it works.<p>My complaint with CL is it's not open enough. I truly wish Craig would drink the Jack Dorsey kool-aid, and have an open API for CL allowing independent developers to innovate around it.<p>Having said all that... your site is even more closed than CL. I understand private betas, but it's a classifieds site, and you're competing with CL, and the message is: even if I logged in and created an ad, no one would see it.<p><i>you no longer have to spend hours searching through postings.</i><p>That is admirable, and I hope it succeeds. But the problem right now with online classifieds is centered around whether distributed innovation is possible. I'd love to place an ad in a way that doesn't result in one company controlling it exclusively.