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.

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

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Live Outage Map

The most recent Craigslist outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Township of Evan	Errors	7 days ago
Aurora	Sign in	3 months ago
Oklahoma City	Website Down	4 months ago
Columbus	Errors	4 months ago
Juneau	Errors	4 months ago
Juneau	Errors	4 months ago

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Craigslist Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 29 seconds ago

  A solo dev opened Flutter, spent 3 weeks on it, and shipped a ride-hail app a casual user couldn't tell apart from Uber. Yellow branding. Live map. GoabX, GoabXL, GoabBike tiers with prices. Visa 4242 on file. Home, Work, Airport saved. "Confirm GoabX" button. The whole flow. Pause at 0:08. Look at the split screen. Simulator on the right running the sign-up screen. auth_screen.dart on the left — the actual Flutter source with _Chip extending StatelessWidget, _CircleBtn wrapping a GestureDetector, BoxDecoration in black and white, Icon at 17.sp. That's not a mockup. That's a shipped auth flow. What the clone has: → Flutter frontend, one codebase, iOS and Android at once → Google Maps + custom route rendering → Ride-tier chips (X / XL / Bike) → Card-on-file with Visa masking → Google + Apple + Facebook social login stubs What the clone doesn't have: → 5 million active drivers → Regulatory clearance in 10,000 cities → A $60 billion payout rail already routed → Insurance underwriters who approved the safety model → Every dispute-resolution playbook Uber wrote from 2012 to now That's the entire product. Here's what nobody in the "just clone it" space is saying out loud: the interface was never Uber's moat. The moat is a two-sided marketplace with 5 million drivers who show up at 3 AM when you tap a button. You can build the button in Flutter in 3 weeks. You can't build the 5 million drivers in 3 lifetimes. The old loop is dead: study successful app → clone the frontend → deploy on the App Store → wonder where the users went. The new loop: study successful app → identify the offline-supply moat → build the supply first → treat the app as the last 5%. The point worth arguing about: the hardest part of building an Uber isn't Uber. It's convincing a stranger with a car to log in on Tuesday at 3 AM when it's raining. Everything else is a Figma file. I know a founder who spent 18 months writing beautiful marketplace code and shipped to zero drivers. Meanwhile a friend of mine ran Craigslist ads for 2 weeks, found 40 house cleaners in one city, matched them with 60 buyers, took 15%. He didn't need a Flutter app. He had a Google Form. The interface is free. The supply is the whole company. Literally.

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  𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐧𝐳𝐳.🦋 (@tessuuh) reported 2 minutes ago

  my dog is gonna pull my pregnant *** down the stairs one day and that is the day i’m gonna sell her on craigslist for $5 dead ***

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  FeelGoodTales (@feelgoodtale) reported 2 minutes ago

  Almost five years ago, I started searching for a dog. I found a Craigslist post from a family rehoming their late father’s German Shepherds. He’d been a *******. The dogs needed homes. I went there for a specific female. But she was already gone. They introduced me to her sister — Sabrina. Thin, shut down, unsure of everything. Still, I couldn’t walk away. Something in her still reached for connection, even through fear. She came home with me that day. Now, she’s ten years old — but still acts like a pup. Loves the river. Hikes. Long naps in the sun. She’s everything I didn’t know I needed. I didn’t just rescue her. She met me where I was and pulled me forward.

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  CoinDealer (@CoinDealerDCL) reported 5 minutes ago

  @CodySR96 @realKellyKnight @Carvana Or, just buy off craiglist or marketplace. You’ll spend less and get a more reliable car. The used cars dealerships get are the ones that had problems and the dealer offered the previous owner credit on a trade. They then put lipstick on a pig, “certify” it, and then re-sell it.

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  Kyle Harrison (@kwharrison13) reported 9 minutes ago

  Maybe. Maybe you'd be fine without data centers. But let me ask you this. Do you use credit cards, debit cards, tap-to-pay, gas pumps, vending machines, parking meters, parking apps, ATMs, online banking, mobile banking, mobile check deposit, Zelle, Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, Apple Pay, Google Pay, splitting a dinner bill, autopay on your bills, payroll that isn't a paper check, direct deposit, digital 401(k), Robinhood, Coinbase, credit score checks, loan applications, mortgage applications, car loan approval at the dealership, insurance quotes, filing an insurance claim, e-filing your taxes, gift cards, store loyalty accounts, digital coupons, rebates, buy-now-pay-later, tipping on a screen, email, text messages, iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, group chats, voicemail transcription, spam call blocking, FaceTime, Zoom, Google Meet, Discord, Slack, video calls with grandparents, phone number lookups, checking your data usage, paying your phone bill, two-factor codes, push approvals to log in, password managers that sync, "sign in with Google," resetting a forgotten password, digital IDs in your wallet app, gym check-in apps, apartment smart locks, hotel keys on your phone, office badge apps, patient portals, seeing your test results, booking a doctor's appointment, telehealth visits, prescription refill requests, the pharmacy knowing what you're on, insurance verification at the front desk, prior authorization, continuous glucose monitors, insulin pump apps, remote pacemaker checks, CPAP data reports, hearing aid apps, therapy apps, period trackers, fertility trackers, medical alert buttons for elderly parents, symptom checkers, finding an in-network doctor, the weather app, radar, hurricane warnings, tornado warnings, flood alerts, earthquake early warning on your phone, wildfire maps, smoke maps, air quality, pollen counts, Amber alerts, emergency alerts, road closure info, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, live traffic, rerouting around a crash, transit apps, real-time bus and train arrivals, tapping your phone to ride the subway, Uber, Lyft, rental car reservations, Turo, bike share, scooter share, EV charging networks, paying for a charge, phone-as-car-key, remote start, finding your parked car, over-the-air car updates, in-car navigation, in-car voice assistants, stolen vehicle tracking, road trip planning, booking flights, checking in for a flight, mobile boarding passes, seat selection, flight status, rebooking after a cancellation, bag tracking, TSA PreCheck lookups, airport wifi, booking hotels, Airbnb, Vrbo, checking into a hotel, cruise bookings, theme park tickets, ride reservations, airline miles, hotel points, currency conversion, Amazon, all online shopping, order tracking, delivery notifications, returns and exchanges, price checks in-store, self-checkout, store apps, curbside pickup, Instacart, DoorDash, Uber Eats, ordering ahead at a restaurant, OpenTable, Resy, waitlist texts, QR code menus, tipping on delivery, subscription boxes, eBay, Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Poshmark, StockX, Ticketmaster, StubHub, getting into a concert with a phone ticket, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, smart thermostats, video doorbells, security cameras, alarm monitoring, smart locks, smart lights, robot vacuums, garage door openers, baby monitors, pet cameras, automatic pet feeders, GPS pet collars, smart sprinklers, smart fridges, app-connected air fryers, cloud printing, printer ink subscriptions, routers you manage from an app, checking if you left the stove on, iCloud, Google Photos, every photo you've taken in ten years, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, shared albums, phone backups, setting up a new phone, notes apps, calendars, contact syncing, reminders, to-do apps, document scanning, e-signing a lease, Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Twitch, cloud DVR, on-demand cable, Spotify, Apple Music, podcasts, audiobooks, Kindle books, library ebook borrowing, online multiplayer games, matchmaking, cloud saves, game downloads, game patches, single-player games that phone home for a license check, Steam, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Nintendo Online, Roblox, Minecraft servers, fantasy football, sports scores, sports betting apps, movie tickets, Google search, Wikipedia, ChatGPT, Claude, every other AI app, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest, dating apps, Yelp reviews, Google reviews, news sites, Substack newsletters, blogs, forums, checking if a business is open, looking up a phone number, recipes, translation apps, Duolingo, Google Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Outlook, Microsoft 365, Teams, Notion, Figma, Canva, shared calendars, scheduling links, VPNs into work, remote desktop, timeclock apps, shift scheduling apps, requesting time off, expense reports, job applications, LinkedIn recruiters, video interviews, Canvas, Blackboard, checking your kid's grades, school lunch accounts, attendance notifications, online homework, Khan Academy, Coursera, FAFSA, student loan portals, tutoring apps, Fitbit, Apple Watch health data, Strava, Peloton, sleep tracking, smart scales, calorie tracking, meditation apps, workout apps, DMV appointments, renewing your license online, paying a parking ticket, jury duty portals, checking your property tax bill, utility accounts, outage maps, paying rent through an app, HOA portals, storage unit access codes, wedding registries, baby registries, funeral arrangements, Ancestry, 23andMe results, church livestreams, volunteer signups, or GoFundMe? If you said yes to ANY of those then you do, in fact, NEED data centers.

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  Nina (@WhiteDevilMama) reported 14 minutes ago

  The cold has broken. I live. Though I do not thrive. Still doing yard work. Feeling cute. Might go shovel some free landscape rock off of Craigslist later. I dunno. 💅

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  GenX Bitcoiner (@GenXBitcoiner) reported 15 minutes ago

  @88_sats @YouTube Years ago when CraigsList started charging for job postings, the number of postings went down 90% and including all of the fake job ads.

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  Michael Fischer (@Holden_Rye_) reported 21 minutes ago

  @grok @cryptorover @grok this is a copy and paste to a post I made. You agree or disagree that we need to not rely on old data as much as past and continue mapping the market? “The lesson isn’t just conviction. It’s surviving the volatility long enough for that conviction to matter. But I’d add one more thing: don’t confuse an old cycle rule with a law of Bitcoin. I watched Bitcoin change in phases. I got into Bitcoin back when we used Craigslist to trade it for cash, ****, pizza, PC parts, whatever. You met people personally. Like any network, eventually you figured out where everyone hung out, where information moved and where people traded. Then exchanges came along and gave Bitcoin a real market price. Then derivatives, perp trading and DeFi showed up. By around 2016, we had enough history to map what looked like a real pattern around the halving. But the nerds watching this **** develop understood something important: The cycle was a map of Bitcoin at that stage of its life. It wasn’t doctrine. Bitcoin was still a baby. The infrastructure was still being built. Now look at it. Wall Street is here. ETFs are here. Corporations are holding it on their balance sheets. Governments that once treated Bitcoiners like criminals are accumulating it, regulating it and building policy around it. Stablecoins, institutional custody, derivatives and massive pools of capital are now connected to the same market. That’s a completely different machine. The problem is that as new people entered Bitcoin, they were taught the four-year cycle without being taught the most important part: The map can change. Over time, a useful observation became a rule. Then the rule became doctrine. I’m telling you now, after going back through the plumbing: The map is changing. The old cycle isn’t necessarily dead. But it isn’t running Bitcoin by itself anymore.”

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  Padre Research (@padreresearch) reported 24 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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  Theodore (@TedFeaserberg) reported 25 minutes ago

  @ChrissieMayr Wow chrissy is back???? Trolling for Craigslist trysts must be slow.

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  CAPT Shuyan Huang MD (@CptHuang) reported 31 minutes ago

  Caution with this #goatmilk lady - i ain't offering the #refundpolicy when y'all get into trouble. 1) false pretenses 2) the cyberstalking via craiglist 3) told me that she wanted me to sign some papers; the next day, it was probably a DEA staff. [?White male in blue SUV or something?]

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  rhopunzel (@Rhopunzel) reported 33 minutes ago

  @JoeLongBalls "you own a CAR?! why not trade it in and get a piece of **** off craigslist?!?!" "because a piece of **** will immediately break and then cost more to fix than i saved selling my original car" "KIDS ARE JUST FULL OF EXCUSES THESE DAYS"

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  Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) reported 34 minutes ago

  eBay's CEO shared an article a newsletter writer published about his pay. His comms chief replied "We are going to crush this lady." A month later the CEO texted "Take her down." Then eBay's security team mailed her live cockroaches, a preserved fetal pig, and a book about surviving the death of a spouse. Ina and David Steiner ran EcommerceBytes from their home in Natick, Massachusetts. A small trade publication for online sellers. What enraged executives was the comment section, where sellers vented about the company. The campaign went far beyond packages. eBay employees sent pornographic magazines in David's name to his neighbors. They listed the couple's home on Craigslist as a nightly destination for swingers. They flew to Boston, tailed the Steiners in rented vehicles, and planned to break into their garage to plant a GPS tracker on their car. The Steiners began sleeping in separate bedrooms so that if someone broke in at night, one of them could escape and call police. A Natick detective traced one rental van back to an eBay employee. That single trace unraveled the whole operation. Seven employees pled guilty to federal charges. James Baugh, the security director who ran it, got nearly five years in prison. Now read the final ledger. Baugh, who executed the texts, went to federal prison. Devin Wenig, who sent "take her down," was never charged, denies knowing about the campaign, and left eBay in 2019 with a $57 million exit package. This week he settled for $2 million plus a $1 million donation to a First Amendment charity in Ina Steiner's name. Steve Wymer, the comms chief who texted "I want to see ashes. As long as it takes. Whatever it takes," is paying $50,000. The Steiners fought for seven years and got $48.7 million. The CEO's severance was bigger than their settlement.

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  ryan (@kanlu_07) reported 35 minutes ago

  interesting form of intellect bounty hunting. the new form of 'ask reddit' or 'ask stackoverflow' is coalescing. downstream, i would bet this runs into metaculus + craigslist esque domains. micro prediction markets as reward caches for open problems, with pricing to inform compute + harness direction.

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  Michael Fischer (@Holden_Rye_) reported 36 minutes ago

  The lesson isn’t just conviction. It’s surviving the volatility long enough for that conviction to matter. But I’d add one more thing: don’t confuse an old cycle rule with a law of Bitcoin. I watched Bitcoin change in phases. I got into Bitcoin back when we used Craigslist to trade it for cash, ****, pizza, PC parts, whatever. You met people personally. Like any network, eventually you figured out where everyone hung out, where information moved and where people traded. Then exchanges came along and gave Bitcoin a real market price. Then derivatives, perp trading and DeFi showed up. By around 2016, we had enough history to map what looked like a real pattern around the halving. But the nerds watching this **** develop understood something important: The cycle was a map of Bitcoin at that stage of its life. It wasn’t doctrine. Bitcoin was still a baby. The infrastructure was still being built. Now look at it. Wall Street is here. ETFs are here. Corporations are holding it on their balance sheets. Governments that once treated Bitcoiners like criminals are accumulating it, regulating it and building policy around it. Stablecoins, institutional custody, derivatives and massive pools of capital are now connected to the same market. That’s a completely different machine. The problem is that as new people entered Bitcoin, they were taught the four-year cycle without being taught the most important part: The map can change. Over time, a useful observation became a rule. Then the rule became doctrine. I’m telling you now, after going back through the plumbing: The map is changing. The old cycle isn’t necessarily dead. But it isn’t running Bitcoin by itself anymore.

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  Kyle Harrison (@kwharrison13) reported 36 minutes ago

  @Raiddell925 Maybe. Maybe you'd be fine without data centers. But let me ask you this. Do you use credit cards, debit cards, tap-to-pay, gas pumps, vending machines, parking meters, parking apps, ATMs, online banking, mobile banking, mobile check deposit, Zelle, Venmo, PayPal, Cash App, Apple Pay, Google Pay, splitting a dinner bill, autopay on your bills, payroll that isn't a paper check, direct deposit, digital 401(k), Robinhood, Coinbase, credit score checks, loan applications, mortgage applications, car loan approval at the dealership, insurance quotes, filing an insurance claim, e-filing your taxes, gift cards, store loyalty accounts, digital coupons, rebates, buy-now-pay-later, tipping on a screen, email, text messages, iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal, group chats, voicemail transcription, spam call blocking, FaceTime, Zoom, Google Meet, Discord, Slack, video calls with grandparents, phone number lookups, checking your data usage, paying your phone bill, two-factor codes, push approvals to log in, password managers that sync, "sign in with Google," resetting a forgotten password, digital IDs in your wallet app, gym check-in apps, apartment smart locks, hotel keys on your phone, office badge apps, patient portals, seeing your test results, booking a doctor's appointment, telehealth visits, prescription refill requests, the pharmacy knowing what you're on, insurance verification at the front desk, prior authorization, continuous glucose monitors, insulin pump apps, remote pacemaker checks, CPAP data reports, hearing aid apps, therapy apps, period trackers, fertility trackers, medical alert buttons for elderly parents, symptom checkers, finding an in-network doctor, the weather app, radar, hurricane warnings, tornado warnings, flood alerts, earthquake early warning on your phone, wildfire maps, smoke maps, air quality, pollen counts, Amber alerts, emergency alerts, road closure info, Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, live traffic, rerouting around a crash, transit apps, real-time bus and train arrivals, tapping your phone to ride the subway, Uber, Lyft, rental car reservations, Turo, bike share, scooter share, EV charging networks, paying for a charge, phone-as-car-key, remote start, finding your parked car, over-the-air car updates, in-car navigation, in-car voice assistants, stolen vehicle tracking, road trip planning, booking flights, checking in for a flight, mobile boarding passes, seat selection, flight status, rebooking after a cancellation, bag tracking, TSA PreCheck lookups, airport wifi, booking hotels, Airbnb, Vrbo, checking into a hotel, cruise bookings, theme park tickets, ride reservations, airline miles, hotel points, currency conversion, Amazon, all online shopping, order tracking, delivery notifications, returns and exchanges, price checks in-store, self-checkout, store apps, curbside pickup, Instacart, DoorDash, Uber Eats, ordering ahead at a restaurant, OpenTable, Resy, waitlist texts, QR code menus, tipping on delivery, subscription boxes, eBay, Etsy, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, Poshmark, StockX, Ticketmaster, StubHub, getting into a concert with a phone ticket, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, smart thermostats, video doorbells, security cameras, alarm monitoring, smart locks, smart lights, robot vacuums, garage door openers, baby monitors, pet cameras, automatic pet feeders, GPS pet collars, smart sprinklers, smart fridges, app-connected air fryers, cloud printing, printer ink subscriptions, routers you manage from an app, checking if you left the stove on, iCloud, Google Photos, every photo you've taken in ten years, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, shared albums, phone backups, setting up a new phone, notes apps, calendars, contact syncing, reminders, to-do apps, document scanning, e-signing a lease, Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney+, Max, Prime Video, Twitch, cloud DVR, on-demand cable, Spotify, Apple Music, podcasts, audiobooks, Kindle books, library ebook borrowing, online multiplayer games, matchmaking, cloud saves, game downloads, game patches, single-player games that phone home for a license check, Steam, PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Nintendo Online, Roblox, Minecraft servers, fantasy football, sports scores, sports betting apps, movie tickets, Google search, Wikipedia, ChatGPT, Claude, every other AI app, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, X, Reddit, LinkedIn, Snapchat, Pinterest, dating apps, Yelp reviews, Google reviews, news sites, Substack newsletters, blogs, forums, checking if a business is open, looking up a phone number, recipes, translation apps, Duolingo, Google Docs, Sheets, Gmail, Outlook, Microsoft 365, Teams, Notion, Figma, Canva, shared calendars, scheduling links, VPNs into work, remote desktop, timeclock apps, shift scheduling apps, requesting time off, expense reports, job applications, LinkedIn recruiters, video interviews, Canvas, Blackboard, checking your kid's grades, school lunch accounts, attendance notifications, online homework, Khan Academy, Coursera, FAFSA, student loan portals, tutoring apps, Fitbit, Apple Watch health data, Strava, Peloton, sleep tracking, smart scales, calorie tracking, meditation apps, workout apps, DMV appointments, renewing your license online, paying a parking ticket, jury duty portals, checking your property tax bill, utility accounts, outage maps, paying rent through an app, HOA portals, storage unit access codes, wedding registries, baby registries, funeral arrangements, Ancestry, 23andMe results, church livestreams, volunteer signups, or GoFundMe? If you said yes to ANY of those then you do, in fact, NEED data centers.

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  Bob Erickson (@BobE3042) reported 37 minutes ago

  @_ClimateCraze In Florida, it is possible to find very cheap—and even free—solar panels. When existing systems are removed or upgraded, word spreads quickly and the used panels are snapped up fast. Professional installers and businesses can earn extra money by alerting friends and business associates where the discarded panels are located awaiting disposal. The removed panels are the property of the land owner. It’s cheaper to just let the public take them than to pay to have them hauled away. For example, last year the Orange County Convention Center gave 6,000 panels away. Used commercial panels are often listed on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace. I have several in my yard that powers my refrigerator, microwave, USB devices and lights. When a tropical storm or hurricane hits I'm ready for when the grid to go down.

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  lu (@montaukpper) reported 38 minutes ago

  crazy craigslist adds. getting places and people shut down. thrown in jail a couple times. how does nobody have it out for him

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  Richyrich2.0 (@RichyrichX20) reported 38 minutes ago

  @SreneIntimidate I was gonna go home down the street after like an hour but baaaaaby. I was LOCKED tf in. These ****** had a whole *** Craigslist post orchestrating the hookups. A bunch of married men 😭

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  Julius Ilg 🪸 (@juliusilg) reported 42 minutes ago

  🧵 the forgotten market the standard pushback on any marketplace founder (few are left) going after horizontal C2C: „it‘s too hard. We looked at this space (and lost a lot of money)“  the core mechanic is trivial:  1. build a a place to buy and sell 2. onboard regular sellers 3. onboard regular buyers 4. match them 5. monetize the network asset  It‘s 2026 and every country has a dominant horizontal marketplace that dates back at least 10-30 yrs Founding dates Desktop era Craigslist: 1995 eBay: 1995 Blocket 🇸🇪: 1996 Ricardo 🇨🇭: 1999 Mercado Libre 🇦🇷: 1999 Gumtree 🇬🇧: 2000 Leboncoin 🇫🇷: 2006 … Mobile era Vinted 🇪🇺: 2008 OfferUp : 2011 Depop: 2011 Carousel 🇸🇬: 2012 Wallapop 🇪🇸: 2013 Facebook Marketplaces: 2016 … Void 2026 Combined valuation of all of them ~$250B I‘ve been trying to find NEW startups over the past year that go after this market and asked investors I talked to if they can point at any. The only one I found that was geared at regular sellers horizontally was tradepost raising $4M last year.  Their last iOS update was 6 months ago and hope that just means a stealth v2 or smth is coming, because it feels strangely lonely.  Like the one lunatic from Switzerland with a tiny team of 2 1/2 and the monetary firepower of a spoon trying to win a ~$250B industry.  $250B only includes what‘s visible: 80% are throwing (un)used goods away or let them depreciate. So why are we/startups are not trying to solve this? It‘s not like it‘s a niche problem or the prize of winning is too small. We now have global solutions for almost anything and our horizontal C2C trade infrastructure is running on Pearl or Java (mostly isolated by country). The UI and UX are like asking kids today to play Command and Conquer and Halo (no, they are not as good as you remember, don‘t try playing them and destroy your awesome memory) there are two camps: a) everyone failed, so it doesn’t work b) verticals win and a newer third one c) agents will replace them I‘m not going to address a) for obvious reasons  b) logical vertical fallacy that consumer convenience revolves around having ten apps to sell or buy something (un)used. c) I see some agent probability for (non-discretionary) B2C and B2B, but C2C would require the 80% offline supply to be online in the first place (which agent is taking the picture?). Automation for regular sellers is still the right move (there is also some element of selling hobby though) But C2C buyers are more like treasure hunters. They love exploring, going to the flea market. It‘s a hobby/passion. Finding that vintage lamp from the 60s for a bargain.  My daughter went happily shopping today and it wasn’t about buying smth specific, it was about the journey much more than the destination. (I personally love discovering and hate shopping btw) We‘re not going to send agents playing beach volleyball and proudly tell our friends we automated leisure.  It‘s why so many of us spend so much time on x, when we could also just ask Claude: „give me cool things to read“.  C2C has this social/culture layer that‘s really hard to capture without a timeline/feed and C2C UI tooling (swipes, taps, maps, connections, etc).  It‘s not as transactional as „how many vitamins does chocolate have?“ We addressed „big market“ and „horizontal UI/UX app layer“  I guess the most important question remains:  Why did nobody solve this yet and users are now even going to private chat groups? The people who tried were beyond smart, well funded (we‘re talking billions that were burnt). Some managed to put a (big) dent in e.g. eBay like Vinted for fashion, but we‘re still ridiculously far away from a Spotify like dominance over the global horizontal C2C app layer. Many failed to win the grand prize. Cold-start funding would be the easy answer (there are many people on earth). This is missing a much bigger issue: we forgot how building C2C works.

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  Salomé Sibonex (@SalomeSibonex) reported 47 minutes ago

  @webdevMason Nope. The issue is you’re assuming these are in contradiction but they aren’t. The campaigns have lowered the number of unwanted dogs. That number is still high, still contains a high number of Pits, and doesn’t impact puppy mills in the same way, because the demand for those dogs isn’t identical to the demand for backyard bred dogs. Puppy mills often sell as professional breeders or pet shops, not Craigslist ads. Backyard breeders and mills have different customers.

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  TB1Kinobe™️🇺🇸 (@TB1Kinobe) reported 48 minutes ago

  @Guy831500R I've got a guy on Craigslist who can get them already broken in for $3

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  This freakin guy (@DefiantTx) reported 49 minutes ago

  I've tried everything I could think of. 1000s of resumes. Indeed Craigslist, simply hired State...zip. non profits. zip. tried fundraising. Zip. Almost 2 yrs of of being homeless. Wtf do i do. It's been almost 3 weeks since I ate. it wasn't for the library , I'd be in trouble.

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  𝕮 (@XCzsnx) reported 50 minutes ago

  My business partner and I built the taco truck from a used food trailer we found on Craigslist, painted it ourselves in his driveway over a weekend, split every cost down to the propane tanks. He called me on a Sunday to say he'd bought a second truck, said it like an update, not a question, said he'd already lined up a new logo and a new name for it, one that didn't include mine anywhere. I asked whose name was on the LLC for the new one. He said just his, said it was "cleaner that way for taxes." I didn't argue on the phone. I went by the commissary kitchen we shared the next morning and looked at the schedule board, saw our regular Thursday spot at the farmers market now listed under the new truck's name, our truck moved to a Tuesday slot near the highway nobody requests. He was there loading ice when I walked in. He said, "I figured you'd rather keep things simple, focus on the original truck, not stretch yourself thin." I told him that wasn't his decision to make for me. He shrugged, said the market coordinators had already approved the swap, nothing to be done about it now. I called the coordinator myself that afternoon, said I had questions about the vendor agreement, asked her to email me a copy of what he'd submitted. It's sitting in my inbox now, unopened, the subject line just "RE: Vendor Info Request." I keep meaning to read it between shifts, and keep finding a reason not to.

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  Katie-Squirrelett (@toolatekate_) reported 50 minutes ago

  @LE_Kay88 @lesstenny @purplepingers No Craigslist down under??? wtf?

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  chlo (@chlooaayy) reported 53 minutes ago

  @SacAppraiser This is a huge problem in San Diego, every single listing on Craigslist for rentals is a scam. So unfortunate.

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  SonsOfRome (@FiliRomaeAscend) reported 55 minutes ago

  @WexitPepe Otherwise the stuff would go to the junkyard to it’s still worth it for me. Facebook marketplace or Craigslist are the only other viable options and there are 2 major issues: 1) geographical constraints I.E. limited market 2) Everyone wants your stuff for free so you end up lowering the price just to move it. Having sold significant amounts on all platforms I prefer eBay for the smaller hard to sell locally stuff.

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  Dan from Spotted Model: Cars & Tech (@spotted_model) reported 55 minutes ago

  @CajunCybertruck @28delayslater @SpringdaleRobo Shipping is the biggest issue as either Tim or my son will tell you. So find a seat out of a Tesla locally on marketplace or craigslist. The Amazon parts are $60-$80 to make it into a chair with wheels. My son‘s kit is $399 to electrify it. That will enable anything the seat originally had like heating, cooling, lumbar, etc. to be used all the time in the seat. We have a video showing how to install and it takes about an hour. The seat without power is cool. With all of the functions it’s magical. DM me for more info or clarity.

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  Dave Meyer (@dsmeyer77) reported 57 minutes ago

  @Pirat_Nation How terrible :( Hope he has some help keeping an eye open on FB marketplace, craigslist, ibotta, local **** shops, ebay etc.

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 58 minutes ago

  A solo dev opened Flutter, spent 3 weeks on it, and shipped a ride-hail app a casual user couldn't tell apart from Uber. Yellow branding. Live map. GoabX, GoabXL, GoabBike tiers with prices. Visa 4242 on file. Home, Work, Airport saved. "Confirm GoabX" button. The whole flow. Pause at 0:08. Look at the split screen. Simulator on the right running the sign-up screen. auth_screen.dart on the left — the actual Flutter source with _Chip extending StatelessWidget, _CircleBtn wrapping a GestureDetector, BoxDecoration in black and white, Icon at 17.sp. That's not a mockup. That's a shipped auth flow. What the clone has: → Flutter frontend, one codebase, iOS and Android at once → Google Maps + custom route rendering → Ride-tier chips (X / XL / Bike) → Card-on-file with Visa masking → Google + Apple + Facebook social login stubs What the clone doesn't have: → 5 million active drivers → Regulatory clearance in 10,000 cities → A $60 billion payout rail already routed → Insurance underwriters who approved the safety model → Every dispute-resolution playbook Uber wrote from 2012 to now That's the entire product. Here's what nobody in the "just clone it" space is saying out loud: the interface was never Uber's moat. The moat is a two-sided marketplace with 5 million drivers who show up at 3 AM when you tap a button. You can build the button in Flutter in 3 weeks. You can't build the 5 million drivers in 3 lifetimes. The old loop is dead: study successful app → clone the frontend → deploy on the App Store → wonder where the users went. The new loop: study successful app → identify the offline-supply moat → build the supply first → treat the app as the last 5%. The point worth arguing about: the hardest part of building an Uber isn't Uber. It's convincing a stranger with a car to log in on Tuesday at 3 AM when it's raining. Everything else is a Figma file. I know a founder who spent 18 months writing beautiful marketplace code and shipped to zero drivers. Meanwhile a friend of mine ran Craigslist ads for 2 weeks, found 40 house cleaners in one city, matched them with 60 buyers, took 15%. He didn't need a Flutter app. He had a Google Form. The interface is free. The supply is the whole company. Literally.