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roarpower: ... a way better auction platform than TM's stagnant website.
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roarpower: I would love to start up an auction website, I think it would be great giving Trademe a real competitor, plus I have some ideas that I think would make a way better auction platform than TM's stagnant website. Unfortunately the chances of failing are too high. I have just started a small online business which has made me realise what a massive job it would be to compete with TM. If you could get together the perfect team, someone with money, someone with PR pull and some super geeks then maybe it could work.
BlueShift: Based on comments further up this thread, there's probably space for a Craigslist type of thing that allows a broader range of classified ads than a pure auction site does - all the "Wanted", and "missing cat" and "looking for D&D players in my area to form a party to take on the dungeons of Dimangia"
Monetising it is a different story, one that Craigslist did struggle with IIRC.
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jmumby:mattwnz:jmumby: Why doesn't some start a wanted site? I mean, everyone is trying to start a second shop here. Surely there is a market for people who want something?
That is exactly what someone I was talking to recently wondered, why there isn't such a website.
I know right? Could be for anything, rare spare parts, rentals, cars anything. I guess how you would make any money would be the problem.
freitasm:Trade Me's platform is not stagnant. They are constantly changing things, creating new features, tweaking design, performance, enhancing API, creating mobile- and tablet-friendly sites, etc.
You need a huge team to get something even close to what they do today. A one man company (or a ten people company) wouldn't do the job.
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ajobbins:freitasm:Trade Me's platform is not stagnant. They are constantly changing things, creating new features, tweaking design, performance, enhancing API, creating mobile- and tablet-friendly sites, etc.
You need a huge team to get something even close to what they do today. A one man company (or a ten people company) wouldn't do the job.
This.
I don't know how many Dev's TM has these days, but I am guessing maybe 20 or more full time. And that's maintaining and building new stuff. For someone trying to play catch up as well.....good luck!
You can't just pay 5 developers in Chennai $20k to build something that loosely resembles TM and expect to take them on. Trade Me spends millions of dollars each year building and improving on what they have.
freitasm: This must be the tenth topic on "creating an auction website to take on Trade Me" since the Wheedle debacle.
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