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What's stopping someone from making a craiglist like website with an awesome UI?

• lobotryas 14y ago
  The challenge in building a brand and an audience that Craigslist has assembled. If you build it, doesn't automatically mean that they will come.
• phpnode 14y ago
  network effects
• Goronmon 14y ago
  It's hard to compete with a site that is both free and "everyone" uses already. Both of those are very strong barriers to entry.
  • vigrant 14y ago
    Very true.