I am a strong believer in the growth potential of India in the years to come. As India progresses there are 2 things that will happen

  • More and more people will buy and sell second hand goods
  • More of those trades will start to happen on the internet.

That is the belief on which contacthello.com was started. In the last 1 year I have made considerable progress in the second hand mobiles market with contacthello ranking among the top 10 results in Google for most of the terms. The traffic is still negligible but I am confident that it will improve dramatically over the next 12-18 months. There are many additional feature that needs to be added but not now. I am going to let the mobile section sustain on its own for the next 4 months and will look at adding any new feature after that only.

The other 2 goods with a significant market for used good are bikes and cars. The second hand bikes section was added to the site at the beginning of this month. The code and UI is an exact copy of what was used for the mobiles section. While not much action is required on the development front, I need to do the initial bit of promotion to start getting bikes listed on the site. The section needs a sitemap badly.

The used cars section is a work in progress. Unlike the other 2 sections, it is not going to be a classified site. Rather I intend to develop it as a vertical search engine. I have already written the code to crawl carwale.com and the data is live on the site. Over this weekend I shall add code to crawl 5-6 more used cars sites. This is the first time I am creating a technically complex project. Hope I succeed and people like what they see.

The immediate task for october are

  1. Complete the development of the used cars and used bikes sections
  2. Integrate the 3 sections more closely
  3. Make the creation of sitemaps completely automated

November is reserved for reaching out to bloggers interested in cars/bikes and/or mobiles. I have been pathetic on this front. Hopefully I will do better this time as there is no other alternative.

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