Archive for the 'Development' Category

In case you guys are wondering, the site is still alive and is now getting more of my time than it did before. Right now, I’m busy working on a community section for the site where members can share and discuss both technical and non-technical topics. It should be out within the next week or [...]


Found and corrected a bug in the search results page where the pager at the bottom uses the incorrect set of links. The site doesn’t have a lot of data right now that’s why it didn’t get spotted.
Other than the bug fix, a sorter drop down list has been added to the catalog and search [...]


Just rolled out a new feature that lets item owners “bump” their items up to make them visible on the front page of the website again.
Compared to other implementations from other classifieds websites, our approach discourages item owners from spamming their item’s inquiry board with *bump* or *up* messages. Doing those things won’t bubble up [...]


Out of the list of requested features that we got from veteran sellers of other gadget trading community sites, two of the most requested – and we think are big wins – are:

Image Attachments
Additional Categories

When posting an item, we’re now letting you attach up to 4 images for your item. For now, we’re limiting the [...]


Years ago, online storage, CPU time and bandwidth are usually the top three things that stop would-be web entrepreneurs from launching their online projects. Not unless they have enough capital to fund these expensive requirements. As years went by, hardware got cheaper and so did the cost of bandwidth. Now, big and new companies setup free services that let you offload some of the bandwidth and computing power your website needs to them. I think they call this cloud computing – using the internet as your infrastructure and as your OS.