PeopleJar. Nice Work, But I Have Some Bad News For You

PeopleJar is a social network that helps users with similar interests connect using a highly-customizable search engine
Members create a detailed profile including info on their education, country of origin, and interests which will help the site categorize you into a group for optimization in their person engine.
PeopleJar sees that they fill a hole in the social network world because larger competitors (Facebook, Myspace) lack the search efficiency needed to find similar people.
Here’s the bad news PeopleJar. You are a feature that has yet to be dealt with. Do not build a business, especially a social network around a small search enhancement feature that could easily be built out tomorrow. Unless you built this for free and are trying to send a message to the mother ship, I don’t see any intrinsic value. Sorry.

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Made tiny from: TechCrunch.com original post

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joey

Feature.

B. Ramirez

Good point. Glad someone is addressing this issue of feature or company. People need to realize how difficult it is to build a stand alone business, let alone one that is trying to draw users away from competitors with one superior feature.

Neil

Looks like a company to me. It's a macro site like the big boys, it's free, its open source technology. It's kind of like how ebay is for products, but this is for people. Ebay just kept expanding when people added more different things to sell. But ebay costs money.

Brandon

Agree with Neil. We compare everything to facebook these days. I see it more as a wikipedia /search tool to people. It is a macrosite. And how many fee-driven microsites still serve each little industry with this very purpose. Well done and focused on its simple and clear foundation. Not "features all over the place" kind of site.

SherwinNero

I feel like it's to late in the game to develop a social network right now. We're moving forward and there are evolutions of the "Social Network" coming out. To me this site is a feature not a business.

tom

hey jason, alex, the founder of peoplejar, made a comment that addresses your post on the original techcrunch article

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/16/peoplejar-...