india.next*

The Incubation team has launched a newly incubated classifieds product from the "cellar" called Y! Listit!

This was made live sometime back and the team was trying to bootstrap it with some minimal content before posting it on india.next*. The product is still under alpha, needs more iterations to be a mature classifieds contender. However our intent to release the product was to try to test a few of the concepts we were introducing in this space.

The product came about trying to understand how the classifieds space works in emerging markets. One of the observations came out was the need for social trust among people engaged in a classic trade. With this we came out with the concept of creating social circles within which people could buy, sell, swap their knick knacks.

Listit tries to bring about just that - buy, sell, swap among your trusted circles. In the first iteration this is limited to closed circles such as your company, workplace, school or college circles. This can allow each company or college to have their own classifieds board. Additionally a circle member can choose to post an ad either restricted to their circles or publicly accessible.

One can become a member of such a circle by providing the relevant company, work or college email address that can be verified. Generic emails such as hotmail.com or yahoo.com do not qualify, you need to provide a private domain email address that is identified to be the domain for that institution or workplace.

Currently circles exist for a few companies and colleges in Bangalore. You can try to login and provide your company email address to see if your company circle exists. If it doesn't we will try to create a new circle for your company or college.

While this product was originally crafted for South-East Asia, the product was dropped from the priority list. Since then the product was under incubation using purely volunteer engineering and product resources and built to the current level of capability. We hope to continue to test our volunteering capabilities in iterating this further based on our user inputs. So please do provide us your valuable feedback in the "Share your ideas" link at the bottom.

Try it out and let me know what you think.

Thanks

MetaMix

[Update:]

New Cities have been added (Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata & Chennai). The challenge has been to get a consolidated list of large neighborhood areas within each city. If you see any errors or omissions in the list of locations within the cities please do let us know. We hope to add more cities as we get more location data for each.

Thanks

Chintan

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