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Cool idea. Will be interesting to see what companies like Craigslist can/will do about this stuff. It's not like Craigslist is ideologically opposed to maps, they just didn't want them to be hosted on a competing site.

So I imagine they might not mind this at all..

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I use a Chrome extension that automatically displays the embedded photos as thumbnails next to each listing. Per request, it probably increases the resource burden on CL's servers by one or two orders of magnitude. I can't imagine they are happy about that and keep waiting for the day when they implement some sort of rate limiting.

Or maybe it really is as they say, and they just don't want 3rd parties doing this sort of thing, even though it's far more efficient. Personally I'm skeptical.

What extension? I was just looking for something like this.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jmcbgcbedienblgnfe...

I agree a good work around for the padmapper problem, wonder how padmapper will react.

I'm the person who made PadMapper, I think this is great. I'm worried that CL doesn't distinguish, though. (I'm a bit confused as to why you think I'd have a problem with it, did you mean to type Craigslist there?)

I think some tend to think you are on a mission to prove a point or make money and have a popular site, slightly contrary to your stated position of just benevolently wanting to make craigslist apartment hunting better, so this could take your traffic and set you off the mission they really think you are on.

Hey there. Somewhat offtopic, but: thank you for shaking up an old industry by creating Padmapper. Kudos.

What Sillysaurus said. I'm still confused by a) this is one area CL makes revenue b) Your service makes it more usable thus increasing demand = c) more revenue to offset any costs associated with load?

Thanks :-)

Much love for PadMapper. I'll miss it man...I even recommended it to my landlord so he can track neighborhood apartment prices better (for rent adjustment)

Haha cool. No need to miss it, it's still there.

ditto, PadMapper is the sh*t! It has saved me countless hours of apartment hunting. Thanks!

Thanks, and nice work yourself :-)

Because it turns your entire platform / service into a Chrome widget and eliminates the need for your product?

I think it's a cool solution. I want apartment hunting to be less awful, I don't necessarily have to be the one to do it.

Yep. While its cool, most people apartment shop for max a few weeks per year? I don't know about others, but I tend to avoid installing anything that has a single purpose and limited use, even if its free, because I don't like being cluttered with apps and widgets and extensions and the like.

If the general public is anything like me, a website is far more inviting than something like this.

Some people will use it. Maybe not as many as PadMapper, but I developed CLMapper with myself as the ideal user.

... eliminates the need for his product only by people who are into using Chrome plugins like that. The rest of the people looking for apartments will still have a need for his product. I wonder which user base would be bigger. I suspect it is not the Chrome Plugin users.

There is nothing that prevents this Chrome widget from becoming as threatening to CL as was padmapper.

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