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Nextdoor raises $75M round at $1.5B valuation

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21 pointsaloukissas7 comments

>The firm operates a website that enables members who live in close proximity to communicate with each other, offer goods for sale and organize virtual neighborhood watches.

Hmmm I wonder if forcing people to be social is a good thing.

Why can't Facebook coordinate something like this?

Theoretically, couldn't they look at each person's ip address and determine that they are in the same neighborhood and force those people to interact?

My understanding when I last played with Nextdoor a couple years ago was that they do address verification either through mailing you a postcard or some sort of phone numbers/credit card check. And then you can only interact with people in your neighborhood, or the adjacent ones.

While Nextdoor is technically a subset of Facebook the same way snapchat's disappearing pictures and twitters character limit also is, having a restriction/focus makes the product more compelling to certain people.

There are a lot of small apps/products out there that I was wondering the same thing - why doesn't Facebook try this, they have all the data and 1000's of engineers.

Didn't Nextdoor have a huge problem with racism in small communities?

I guess the userbase of the app is too big to fail now!

If you know anything about the history of the world then you should know this has no adverse bearing on a project being able to secure funding or court the power Majority

They took proactive steps to address it. Specifically, if say you're describing a break-in suspect and you describe them as "black" without any other physical characteristics, once you hit submit you're sent to an interstitial page asking for more details like "tall" or "heavyset" so you're not making every black person in the area a suspect.

Not perfect, of course, but at least they're not ignoring the problem.

The only thing I use Nextdoor for is to sell or buy something where i need to trust the other side. Or to discover a good plumber/electrician/etc.

Not sure if its worth $1.5B considering Craiglist/Amazon/ClickCall/Angieslist/Yelp are good enough alternates

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