Broslist.com mixes the classified ads of Craigslist with user generated content community functionality that seems to be loaded on every site these days. Post a profile, post a video, and then post a listing to sell your old skate deck. It’s all there on the broslist. We don’t know how popular the rest of the site will be, but if the classified section can hit critical mass it could be a great resource for snow, surf, skate gear trading.
Here’s what Mike Piscitelli posted on Club Mumble:
These challenging economic times inspired a few of us to build a classified website that would enable surfers to buy, sell and trade used surf gear, find cheap places to stay all over the world, get rides to the beach, and land work. Over the course of 12 months we worked with a talented group of web programmers to createBroslist.com, a simple but thorough classified website that addresses the needs of surfers on all levels. Unlike craigslist, we are your bros.
The site has only been up for a couple hours, so don’t expect to find much now, but if your garage looks anything like ours, broslist.com may offer some kind of salvation from surf, snow, skate overload.
[Link: Broslist.com via Club Mumble]
Best idea in a long time. Watch out Brociety, Steepandcheap and whiskey militia, if this gains critical mass trouble is a coming.
i don’t think people realize that building a classified site that gains critical mass, even in a niche vertical like boardsports, is near impossible. We’ve seen many of these classifieds for boarders come along in the last few years and not a single one of them has gained any sort of critical mass or mindshare. I just clicked through the site and there is literally only a handful of items listed in all the 100 categories.
It seems they are trying to do to much at once. Instead of starting with a 100 different categories ranging from everything under the sun, they should focus on just a couple niche categories. Once they dominate those, they can start slowly adding others. Craigslist started in SF and slowly branched out to new cities as they gained traction. It probably never would’ve been successful if they tried the ol’ shotgun approach.
you’re thinking too hard Cameron. Broslist is a great idea and the reason those other “surf” sites failed was because they sucked and the user was forced to do too much. This site is remarkably simple…and its funny.
Also read above…the site is empty because its only a few hours old. Give it a few days and maybe it will gain traction.
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