Craigslist For The Military

It’s always somehow surprising how many good ideas are still left undone. best of luck to them, but holy moly that’s a domain name, seems like there’s got to be some pseudo-military slang words they could use.

No base listed for Diego Garcia? insert mysterious cover up music

this is nearly, dare i say, an exact, spinoff of Craigslist.
CL can do everything this site does.

all this site did was change the domain name…to make it sound military-specific, which it is - i guess

good luck to the founder though.

I had assumed something like this had already existed, I guess not.

I’m surprised the founder started out with so many categories and locations. It seems that the typical (and most successful) route is to start out with a few locations, market heavily, and then slowly offer new locations.

He did not hire a programmer.

It’s a $99 script from XZero. In fact, he did not even modify the design.

Anyway militaryclassifieds . com was already existing. But it doesn’t seem to be popular.

For a Craigslist with a college flair, check out http://www.umarkt.com

mike: maybe he thought he hired a programmer and the person he hired simply set up XZero. If that’s the case, hopefully he didn’t get ripped off.

I suppose there are a lot of “obvious”, good ideas that haven’t really been implemented, and you can literally take any popular service, like Craigslist, niche, however the biggest question for anybody launching one is how they’re going to execute on a marketing/growth strategy. If you can’t attract a critical mass of users, it does you no good if you have a valid concept.

In this case, since Sammy Villarreal is in the military and has been for a while, if he can successfully get a bunch of friends and colleagues to start using the service and spread the word effectively, the use of a functional $99 script won’t look like such a bad idea.

Yeah, the 99$ script thing is not going to make or break this thing. In fact, one of the biggests “moanings” I here from alot of software people is “I could create that web 2.0 thing in 3 weeks, what do they need $5M for ?”.

But! The thing that will make or break this is the user base and community, and a mention on TechCrunch is about as big a pushoff as this guy could have hoped for.

An active duty Marine is not going to be allowed to leave the service any time soon in order to run a startup. Unless we’re pulling out of Iraq soon, that is. I suspect that he’s actually (gasp) doing it to provide a needed resource and to have an interesting side activity to the extent his down time allows. He’s even included all of the service branches.

Good for him, if he get enough grassroots adoption during the war to make the effort successful. (Unfortunately, TechCrunch won’t provide a pushoff within this niche.) There’s very little online that’s targeted at service members, which is strange given that it’s a well-articulated demographic.

And some people said that there are no more good ideas in this world. Pfft, those people are obviously not looking hard enough.

Its interesting that this may just be a script and a very lame domain name. Now if I could just get exposure on TC that easily…

I would suspect that this is a much needed service and one that could take off with some publicity. Good luck to them and hopefully they can find a better name with one of those new name services or my own suggestion ‘milifieds’.

Great idea. Lets hope it clicks

Military.com DOES have a very popular and robust classifieds product

http://classifieds.military.com/

You want to see interesting Craiglist clones, check out http://www.Adoos.com, http://www.Kijiji.com or http://www.Vivastreet.com

All these startups have grown dramatically outside the US in 2006 and are making revenues in the $$ millions!

i cant believe this got mentioned, and my yard sale database doesn’t…at least i coded the thing from scratch, and its not a clone of someone else, (altho some ppl have made similar pages, but are all unsuccessful like me)