Craigslist status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Craigslist reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Craigslist users through our website.

• Sign in (33%)
• Errors (33%)
• Website Down (33%)

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Craigslist Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Abandon Comfort (@abandoncomfortx) reported 2 minutes ago

  When I saw this log cabin for sale on Craigslist 5 years ago I thought it was a scam. I talked to the 80-year old owner on the phone & still thought it couldn’t be real. She sounded just like an old white lady. I was so impressed how elaborate this hoax was. Pulling down the long driveway, I still didn’t know if it would be real then there it was. Perfectly placed on the hill like something out of a fairytale. Everyone else interested in buying the property were going to tear it down. It couldn’t be saved they said. It took me the better part of 2 years but I saved it and in turned it saved me. It made me a believer again.

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  Hope (@hopeXmeta) reported 6 minutes ago

  @EscambiaFLMan When I was in Florida, I had to escape in abusive relationship. Because of the 2019 DV scandal in Florida, there were no beds available or relocation funds. I had to find a place to stay on craigslist because I was stuck in complete Lawfare. I ended up in Hillsborough, staying with the daughter of an attorney and her boyfriend. I rented a bedroom. The other roommate rented the couch. The woman who was renting the apartment out was also doing OF with her boyfriend and getting food stamps and other benefits from the state. The boyfriend stole my car and drove under a red light camera. I was tracked down by an attorney and I had to pay $400 even though I wasn’t the one driving the car during the time in question. The crazy bipolar person renting out the apartment had plans to sell my dog and cat. She was also going to sell the girl renting the couch for $1200 and keep the money, considering it her rent. When they realized that we were not going to just allow ourselves to be abused in such a way, she started taking lightbulbs out of the lights and keeping the bathroom door locked so we could not use the restroom. I was forced to leave and take her with me. By then I had a UTI. And the only place to go was back to my ex-boyfriend‘s who abused me severely. I thought maybe if we went together things might be OK. They weren’t. My ex did what he always did and lied about me hitting him. He told my friend that if she ever told the truth about what happened that night he would find her. It’s a legitimate threat because he’s a realtor. He forced her to do things in return for having a roof over her head. I tried to save her. But I only brought her to another devil. I don’t know how I can ever forgive myself. All I can do is continue talking about the failure of the system where the police believed that they gave us a packet of information with a solution that will keep us safe. The packet was a false promise. I hope you run for office. We need honest people in the government. We need people who care about humanity. We need people who tell the truth. You are brave and I truly hope good things come your way.

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  cool baby blue aliya🌊🎧✨ (@aliyaissunshine) reported 9 minutes ago

  what is Mamdani’s plan to get me in a happy healthy relationship shop What is his plan to fix Craigslist missed connections so mine stop getting taken down What is his plan to get that guy Jacob who bought mugwort at my job to come back and talk to me about dreams What is his pl

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  FoamingPig (@FoamingPig) reported 12 minutes ago

  @muhasaba_needer went back to look on craigslist and they were gone same as the UTV I looked at earlier and thought 'that looks like a good deal' indecision drags me down

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  Stephen Davis (@scdavis14633) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Ravious101 Learned, never list for free. Put some money on it and let them talk you down. People are leary of free stuff. Next time go craigslist, Facebook is full of crazy people when it comes to buying.

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  Abandon Comfort (@abandoncomfortx) reported 16 minutes ago

  When I saw this log cabin for sale on Craigslist 5 years ago I thought it was a scam. I talked to the 80-year old owner on the phone & still thought it couldn’t be real. It was impressive how elaborate this hoax was. Pulling down the long driveway, I still didn’t know if it would be real then there it was. Perfectly placed on the hill like something out of a fairytale. Everyone else interested in buying the property were going to tear it down. It couldn’t be saved they said. It took me the better part of 2 years but I saved it and in turned it saved me. It made me a believer again.

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 21 minutes ago

  Independent used-car dealers lose buyers to whoever replies first. Built Carbloom to fix that. The AI agent answers every lead, books test drives, and reprices stale listings across Marketplace, Craigslist and CarGurus — 24/7, without an enterprise contract. Live soon.

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  KDB 👁️ controversial woman appreciator (@httpswebpage) reported 21 minutes ago

  lease isn't up for six months but I'm still scrolling craigslist ads to get my heart broken

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  Hargrave_show (@HargraveShow) reported 22 minutes ago

  Comic con *******!! Im gonna tell anna to stop sending people off craigslist to liams house! (This is a joke dont shut my twitter down lol)

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  heimweh (@hheimweh) reported 23 minutes ago

  @morlium @ivadixit Pretty sure I tried to buy one of these off Craigslist in like 6th grade and some greasy high schoolers sold me a broken one

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  Kyle Hill (@TheUSMCRocks) reported 25 minutes ago

  Day 9 Watch out for these scams! Hi Everyone! Today we’re covering Real Estate and Rental Scams. Real Estate and Rental Scams Real estate-related scams (fake rentals, investment fraud, wire fraud in transactions, title fraud) caused $275.1 million in losses across 12,368 complaints in 2025 according to the FBI IC3 Report — up from $173.6 million across 9,359 complaints in 2024, a 58% increase. These losses often overlap with investment, BEC, and impersonation categories, and rental scams spike further in competitive housing markets. Common variants include fake rental listings on Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, Zillow, etc. (scammer 'owns' a property they don’t, collects deposits/first month’s rent, then vanishes or demands more). Another major type is wire fraud during home purchases or refinances—scammers compromise emails or spoof closing instructions to divert wire transfers to their accounts. Other types: Fake 'we buy houses' cash offers that lead to lowball or fraudulent contracts; foreclosure rescue scams; phony investment property deals or REITs; and title/deed fraud where criminals forge documents to steal equity or sell properties they don’t own. Social Engineering Tactics Scammers exploit the high stakes, emotion, and complexity of housing transactions, plus urgency in competitive markets. Here’s how: • Create Urgency: 'Act fast or lose the property,' 'other applicants are ready,' or pressure to wire funds same-day for 'closing.' • Impersonate Legitimate Parties: Pose as landlords, realtors, title companies, lenders, or sellers using fake listings, websites, and documents. • Exploit Research: Target specific listings, use real property details and photos from public records, and research victims' timelines. • Build False Trust: Professional photos, fake references, 'virtual tours,' or spoofed emails from lookalike domains. Stay Safe: For rentals: Never wire money or send gift cards for a property you haven’t seen in person or verified. Meet landlords in person and verify ownership. For purchases: Always verify wire instructions verbally with the title company/lender using a known phone number (not from the email). Tips to Avoid • For rentals: Insist on seeing the property in person, verify the landlord owns it (county property records search), and never pay via wire, gift cards, or crypto. Use official rental platforms with buyer/renter protection where possible. • For home purchases/refinances: Establish verbal verification of any last-minute changes to wiring instructions or payee details. Call the title company or lender using a number you look up independently. • Research any 'investment opportunity' or cash buyer thoroughly—check licenses, reviews, and use escrow/title services you choose. • Be wary of deals that seem too good (below-market rent or price with pressure to decide fast). • Use official sources for property records and work with licensed, reputable real estate professionals you verify. If You’re a Victim • Document everything: Listing screenshots, communications, payment proofs, property addresses, and any contracts or wire details. • Block the scammer and report the listing to the platform (Craigslist, Facebook, Zillow, etc.) immediately. • File a police report (especially important for rental deposits or wire fraud) and submit an IC3 report with full details. • Contact your bank or wire service immediately if money was sent—request recall/chargeback and provide police report. For wires, speed matters. • If it was a rental scam, also report to local housing authorities or consumer protection if in your area. For title/ownership issues, consult a real estate attorney quickly. • Monitor credit and consider a freeze if personal/financial info was shared. Wire fraud in real estate closings is often a BEC variant—report it as such to IC3 for priority handling. Check pics/reply/dm for help. @CagneyAvah @DianaPrinceAVAH

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  Sega Does Gaming (@SegaDoesGaming) reported 27 minutes ago

  @KicksKrave @xBitcoin_Teej Then you just lost the right to whine. This is the real difference between your generation and mine: I was willing to buy a car off of Craigslist or even accept a hand me down from family members because I needed to get from point A to point B only.

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  🇺🇸🇻🇦🏴‍☠️🥖✒️ (@dailyprandium) reported 30 minutes ago

  Decentralized media is a boom for factions, special interest, partisan extremism, and constructing reality to divide and conquer US Old media had 30 years to fix their houses but they never got over the Craigslist disruption to their sacred classifieds payola

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  Rich Dunsheath (@rdunsheath) reported 31 minutes ago

  @justalexoki The complicated ones that save water from Korea are pieces of crap. I live in Houston, we have more damn water than we know what to do with. But I have to buy appliances built for California because they are too stupid to manage their water. The expensive ones have computers and send you messages via WIFI and other worthless things but they don’t work well and the computers go on the fritz. I got flooded out of my house by Harvey and had FEMA insurance and bought all the fancy appliances. The dishwasher had a computer and fifty different settings but to save water and energy, it took forever to run a cycle, didn’t get the dishes clean, and ultimately just stopped working. Only appliance that is not a PIA is the dryer. And even the dryer is not as good as an old dryer that I bought off Craigslist for a pittance for a rental house that only has one control, a spring powered dial that you set by twisting the dial to the number of minutes of drying you need. When it runs down and turns off, you open the door and feel the clothes and if they aren’t dry enough, you crank it up for ten more minutes. Simple, effective, foolproof.

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  Steve Holland (@VLM7234) reported 32 minutes ago

  @i_danieall I booth a Yamaha off a guy on Craigslist for $50… intended this to be a camping guitar. Sounded terrible, action was way high… warped neck. Almost unplayable. Heard about neck reset to make it better. That’s a LOT of work. Found out about a poor man’s neck reset”. Make a thin cut along the neck grit before the body. I did this with a thin blade Japanese hand saw. Filled the gap with hide glue then clamped it for a few days. Put the strings back on it and it sounds great. That 1/16” saw kerf was all it took to work out the neck warp and bring down the action. Pro tip: only try this on a cheapo guitar that you don’t care about messing up. For a good guitar take it to a luthier and be prepared to pay several hundred $$$.

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  Daniel Berk (@danielcberk) reported 38 minutes ago

  Craig from Craigslist turned down $11B and I asked him why on Moneywise. Since then he: - Gave away $570M, and plans on $1B before he dies - Funds NYPD bomb squad gear the city budget can't cover - Funds the AI research of the cardiologist who caught his heart condition He has no car, no fancy watches, rides the subway. I asked him what he actually spends money on. - Books - Streaming services - Gadgets to make his desk tidier His big upgrade this year was going from $50 Skechers to $80 Skechers. Craig never intended on Craigslist becoming what it is today. The amount of money it's worth presents what he calls a "moral dilemma" This episode is all about what someone does when they're given more money than most people in the world will ever see in their lives, but whose values are directly opposed to amassing that much wealth in the first place.

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  Julius Ilg 🪸 (@juliusilg) reported 38 minutes ago

  finding the right one-liner for Shack took only years 🫠 by now we must‘ve changed it 20+ times „C2C Marketplace“ „Anything to Anyone“ „P2P trade network“ „Human protocol for trade“ „Agentic (re)commerce network“ „Silk Road is back“ „C2C fiat and crypto enabled“ „AI consumer trade app“ „C2C running on Memes & AI“ … the hard part was that I knew what we‘re not no eBay, Vinted, Facebook marketplaces, Craigslist, Uber, Amazon etc so we couldn‘t use the usual C for Y „the eBay for Collectibles“ or the „Uber for trade“ I think we‘re finally there and not sure what took me so long: „building a home for regular sellers“ why do I like this so much? a) It‘s tech agnostic. We use whatever we think is best. b) it describes the solution and the problem c) a 5yr old can understand it d) it captures our key priority: regular sellers e) it‘s not tied to a category or vertical, just the desire to sell smth f) it also clearly implies what we‘re not: for professional sellers. We don‘t want to be the next whatnot, amazon or compete against any of them g) it conveys trust and human connection (home) h) it implies continuity and a long term mission (building) the simplest way to think about Shack is a testing ground for smth you own and want to sell. atoms, bits, time compared to setting up a business first or creating a website or find the right vertical website/app you can just take/create a photo and put it up for sale on Shack for the world to explore. maybe your test turns into a business at some point and then you can do all the admin around it and switch to the unlimited professional selling options out there. Shack is aiming to be the easiest point of entry if you‘re not a business and just want to sell or explore selling, with as little friction as possible what will happen if we succeed and users around the world are putting anything they want to sell online? buyers will follow as the supply will be so uniquely differentiated to all the commoditized professional selling options and most importantly prices will undercut any professional as a regular seller has none of the overhead or is selling something that is depreciating or would have been thrown away winning will prevent waste and preserve value the eCommerce industry continues to drive regular sellers into private whatsapp buy/sell groups or offline by prioritizing pros, buyers and vertical solutions (ten apps for regular sellers compared to one) in parallel the creator economy is accelerating and technology is deflating global P2P trade costs. a solution like Shack could capture multiple secular tailwinds and the best part: connect people around the globe decreasing isolation and strengthening community.

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  Rao (@xo_rao) reported 40 minutes ago

  @TedBarham @EndWokeness This is absolutely bonkers. The call to prayer alone would send me into a meltdown. @TedBarham put an ad on craigslist or some .onion site and get that **** taken down tonight.

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  Crazy Uncle Kevin (@CrazyUncleK) reported 40 minutes ago

  @JustineBateman I gotta find a car to fix up for fun. No one’s using Craigslist anymore. FB seems to the only place.

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  Chris Powers (@fortworthchris) reported 42 minutes ago

  Justin Lopas (@JLopas), Co-founder & COO of @basepowerco, told me about the first battery they ever installed. Six months in, they had financial assumptions, regulatory assumptions and engineering assumptions, and no way to know if any of them held. So to put those assumptions to the test, they installed one battery in Dallas, TX. "We got a friend of my co-founders in the Dallas area, and then we found an electrician on Craigslist. And we're like, okay, let's make it happen." "Nothing worked." Wrong battery, bad install, failed inspection. They pulled it out a few weeks later and started on the second one. In this clip, what one broken battery taught them that six months of assumptions could not.

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  On The Right (@OnTheRightRepub) reported 43 minutes ago

  @justalexoki Find an old one on Craigslist 20+ years old or something. You can find any part and fix it as needed. My washer and dryer are not modern and every few years I spend 15-60 minutes changing some $20 parts following YouTube.

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  Annie Oakley (@GotMyAR15) reported 43 minutes ago

  @MAGA_X_Times All of this is totally true. I have had many similar experiences with my ****** @hp printer that I bought 3 years ago. So many issues that I’m now looking on Craigslist for the oldest functioning printer I can find (not an @hp) so I never have another one of these days again.

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  Edward Sibley (@edwardsibl91034) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Bl00DBaptism Well done. The Holy Spirit lets us see our ways are retarded and end up causing pain and suffering to ourselves and the ones we love. I'm trying to live insanely frugal while my mom tries to hoard all the materialistic things she can. She doesn't realize at 70 she doesn't have much time left. Or maybe she does realize it and is doubling down on sin. Have been selling all the stuff I don't need on craigslist and tossing out the stuff that isn't worth anything. Whatever is on your mind will be your god at worst, or at best interferes with obedience to God. Obedience to God = peace while disobedience = dread. I prefer peace.

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  Novara Media (@novaramedia) reported 44 minutes ago

  Ebay has been ordered to pay a $55.7m settlement to an American couple over a harassment campaign by company executives which included doxing, online threats and the delivery of live cockroaches to their home. The orchestrated campaign, which lasted for two months in the summer of 2019, was waged against husband and wife David and Ina Steiner by six eBay employees and one contractor. The couple were targeted after posting criticism of eBay’s corporate and policy changes on their newsletter and website EcommerceBytes, which is popular among eBay sellers, Wired reported. The campaign began with anonymous threats via Twitter DMs before ramping up to malicious deliveries to the Steiner family home. Items sent to the couple included pornography, a bloody pig mask, pests such as fly larvae, live spiders and cockroaches, a book about grieving a spouse and a funeral wreath. Ebay employees had the Steiners trailed in a rented van and posted fake classified ads on Craigslist advertising a ******* party, a ********* and a yard sale with their home address. After the police were contacted, the harassment campaign tailed off as those involved sought to conceal their actions. Former eBay CEO Devin Wenig told Wired via a representative that he was “saddened” by the harassment. He has continually asserted that he had no knowledge of the specific actions taken by the group who carried out the campaign. Wenig is alleged to have given former eBay chief communications officer Steve Wymer the order to “take her down,” in reference to Ina Steiner. However, his lawyers claim he was referring to a communications plan and not any criminal behaviour, a claim supported by court documents according to Wired. Six former eBay staff and a contractor were charged with taking part in the campaign in 2020. The Steiners followed with a civil suit the following year. The case has now reached a final settlement which will award the Steiners more than $46.15m from eBay, $2m from former CEO Devin Wenig, $500,000 from former executive Wendy Jones, and $50,000 from former executive Steve Wymer. David Steiner told Wired: “We were really adamant that this type of behaviour by a Fortune 500 corporation didn’t go unchecked.” In a published statement, eBay said that what the Steiners were subjected to was “wrong, reprehensible and should never have happened,” and that the company had strengthened its policies, controls and training since the incident.

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  Dr.MitchKumsteinEsq. (@DrMitchKumstein) reported 48 minutes ago

  @TheAlphaThought Buy a used car from a private individual who listed on Craigslist or marketplace in the last 2 weeks to ensure you're getting a deal. Beat them up on the price. Cool if it's needs a detail or has a little scratch you can fix for cheap. Then you resell for same price in 2 years.

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  The Automotivist (@_automotivist) reported 48 minutes ago

  Bought a broken 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid off Craigslist for three grand. Everyone said the hybrid battery was dead. A fifty-dollar charger and an hour of reading said otherwise. Bought four or five more the same way. Same fix, same $50 part, same profit every time. Nearly a third of people trading in a car right now are carrying negative equity into the next loan, averaging $6,884 they will pay interest on twice. My Escape flips never owed anyone a dollar. They paid me on the way out the door. That's the actual split. Some cars fight your wealth every month. Some cars work for you. Friday's issue runs the $16,270 versus $9,811 math on the first kind, number for number.

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  FAFO Farms (@FAFOFarmsTX) reported 50 minutes ago

  Sad news the calf did not make it. We brought him inside at 7pm because he could no longer stand. We gave him a second round of electrolytes for the day. 20 minutes later he was starting to move his legs and head and his breathing was getting fuller. After getting the twins down to sleep came back out at 930pm to him no longer moving or breathing. The people who sold us him also have not responded since I reached out earlier today. This is heart breaking and stressful. We are now 3 for 3 in getting cows/calfs that are not healthy through craigslist.

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  Padre Research (@padreresearch) reported 55 minutes ago

  I used to own a recording studio. So I've watched this movie before. Around 2010 everyone and their grandma bought an Mbox, a $40 condenser mic, and a cracked copy of Pro Tools. Suddenly they were "audio engineers" charging $5 per mix and master on Craigslist. Recording artists in untreated bedrooms with foam taped to the walls. People flocked to them because it was cheap and fast. The music sounded terrible but it was "out there" and that's all that mattered to them in the moment. It nearly destroyed the mixing industry. Studios that invested in real equipment, real acoustics, and real skill couldn't compete on price with someone working off a laptop on their bed. But eventually the market corrected. The bedroom engineers disappeared. The artists who wanted quality came back. The studios that survived were the ones that never lowered their standard to compete with the bottom. That's exactly what's happening in the research supply space right now. Vendors popping up overnight with no testing, no infrastructure, no compliance. Just a Telegram channel and the cheapest price. And people are flocking to them for the same reason. It's cheap and it's fast. But cheap and untested doesn't last. It never has. In any industry. The vendors who test properly, build real infrastructure, and treat this like a business will still be here when the dust settles. The $5 mix and masters won't. #Tuesday #Peptides #Music

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  Kevin Ricoy 🌎 (@therealricoy) reported 57 minutes ago

  10 marketing tips: 1. If you can’t own the “big thing” in people’s minds, own something else. #2 in a market doesn’t win by claiming the same ground as the leader. Study Apple’s “Think Different”. They claimed creativity and differentiation. Own a word, a feeling, a niche. 2. Superior technology does not win. Craigslist, an ugly webpage from 1995, beat polished rivals. Nintendo ships weaker hardware than Sony and Microsoft on purpose, and the Wii outsold both. The Switch did it again. VHS beat the technically better Betamax. Minecraft looks like it was carved out of soap and it necame the best selling game of all time. None of these won by being the most impressive product. They won because networked users became their de facto sales force. 3. Popularity adds to those network effects. Sociologists once conducted an experiment with music. In some versions of the experiment people could see how many times each song had been downloaded. When downloads were visible, hits consolidated. People gravitated toward what they saw that others liked. Many people came to Solana because it is where they saw everyone else going, whether for memecoins, NFTs, or otherwise (and were delighted by the best UX in crypto). Perceived popularity created more popularity, which resulted in momentum and increased network effects. 4. The goal of marketing is not simply awareness. Awareness is the top of a funnel. The ultimate goal is happy customers who become advocates and do your marketing for free. Shouting at strangers is only useful to convert them into customers, making your existing users so happy they do the shouting for you is arguably an even larger part of the equation for success. Word of mouth is the strongest form of marketing. People buy products they see people they trust believing in. 5. Network effects compound and build moats Newspapers didn’t die because news was easier to read online, but because classifieds, their real moat, got eaten by Craigslist. Phones and chatrooms were worthless until enough people joined that joining became worth it. People bought PCs to be compatible with everyone else on PCs. If your product has no network advantage, you’re stuck competing on features , and features are very easily copied. 6. Dominate a niche, then expand outward. A product for everyone is a product targeting no one. Crypto is a top tier offender. New projects try to conquer the world before winning a single existing user base where they already live. If you’re building a new global financial system, start with remittance users, traders, creators getting tipped, etc. Win them completely. Then move to the adjacent niche. 7. Every company should become, at least in part, a media company. Go direct. Build owned distribution. Renting your audience from platforms and press means someone else owns it. Study Apple, Nintendo, Google, Sony, etc. 8. People want to stand FOR something. There’s a fine line between naming problems and being a cynic. Spend more time describing what you are than what you’re not. If you criticize competitors, make it clearly in service of defining yourself. If you do stand against something, Wall Street, banks, whatever, make the alternative you represent clear. 9. You’ll get bored of your message before the market ever hears it. Your team will be sick of the tagline before most of the market has seen it once. People often need to see your brand and USP 7+ times before it even starts to exist in their mind beyond “an ad i saw”. Consistency compounds along with network effects. 10. Be human. People bond with people. Winning brands today aren’t the ones best at drilling jargon into your skull about being cheap and convenient. They’re the ones that feel human. Admit mistakes instead of spinning them. Customers whose problem gets handled honestly will often end up MORE loyal. An accessible founder who owns an L in public earns more trust than an ivory tower brand. People forgive fallibility but not fakeness.

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  QtHydro (@HydroFoundry) reported 59 minutes ago

  @bobbyfijan Craigslist had a huge scam problem. Much more difficult with Facebook Marketplace.