Classic parts mobile application

[Atomic]

Hey there,

I am wondering if anyone here would be interested in an application that provides an international platform for selling and searching classic mtb parts. Currently the community is scattered into retrobike, mtb-news, ebay, some facebook-pages and listings on national craigslist-equivalents and people are spending a lot of time browsing through these different platforms. Uploading pictures and setting up listings feels (even on ebay) still as outdated as the bikes we are looking for. What about an internationally working mobile application platform that allows you easy listings (take a pic and add it to the article immediately, chat with a seller, receive a push if an interesting article is listed, integrate paypal, etc. etc. etc.)

Would anyone here be interested? Because I would be willing to spend time and money in developing such an application as ebay is a rip-off and generally selling and looking for these items is a pain in the a.. as nothing has changed during the 10 years I am doing this already.

The application would however not be free. I am thinking of a yearly subscription fee between 5 and 10 USD to cover administration, server and traffic costs. But this would include unlimited access, listings and full functionality.

It would of course have the effect that the in-forum sales threads would be obsolete as this would be a standalone application without integration of anything from mtb-news.de, retrobike or alike.

What do you think?

 

[k-rod]

Re:

gr8 idea !

 

[yagamuffin]

Sorry to piss on your fire but without 100% take up I can't see it fixing the problems you have outlined. It would just be another place to look at alongside the sale forum here and eBay and Gumtree and Craigslist and Facebook groups and on and on and on.

Now if you could build an app to aggregate all those searches in to one place you *may* be on to a winner.

 

[Atomic]

No problem, that is exactly the feedback I am looking for!

What do you think would be the "value add" the people would look for to change to an unified and international platform? It works for bmxmuseum which is heavily used by people from the States to South East Asia, selling and shipping items across the continents - where do you think is the obstacle to achieve the same for the classic mtb scene?

 

[kingbling]

Being free is the starter, we all come on here knowing we can have a chat and sell some kit and it costs us nothing, asking me to pay to go on a website and I'm like why ? I maybe use 3 of the sources mentioned above and only ebay costs me money, but even though I hate paying their fee's at least there is traceability and PP protection and that don't come for free.