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I am launching a new company within the next couple of weeks, here is the demo.

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I graduated from wake in 2011 and taught myself how to program over the last 9 months, and will be launching the site within the next week or two. If you have any questions about the site I would be more than happy to answer them here or by email.
 
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Most obvious question first - freightquote.com and onlinefreightservices.com seem to offer similar services. Freightquote in particular is over $500 million in revenue and 10+ years old. How are you differentiated from those guys?
 
Seems pretty boring. I switched back to porn in less than 30 seconds. What are you doing to hold the casual surfer's interest?
 
Credit card info upfront may be a dealbreaker.
You also need some kind of critical mass of shippers/shippees early, otherwise the lack of availability on either side will cause people to give up. Hope you are addressing this somehow.
Also, assuming there's some review/rating/feedback module for creating trustworthiness of shippers.
 
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I don't like freightify as a name. It seems like a pussy name and I think few pussies move freight. I think moveshit.com would be better than freightify.
 
Sadly, I would not be surprised if you get a cease and desist letter from Spotify.
 
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Most obvious question first - freightquote.com and onlinefreightservices.com seem to offer similar services. Freightquote in particular is over $500 million in revenue and 10+ years old. How are you differentiated from those guys?
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I have a lot of contacts within the industry, ( my father is a truck driver and runs a small company of 10 people). The freight industry is incredibly large and fragmented so I am not too worried about the bigger players in the market. Even though freight quote does 500 million in revenue it really is not much in a 650 billion dollar US market. What differentiates the product is the advanced search, which allows carriers to find an optimal load based on their preferences, and the increased flexibility of having all the features online. If you need to change something it is just a click away instead of having to go through a chain of command like the current brokering system. I am focusing on transparency, simplicity, and lower transaction costs. I will know what works quickly and will adapt the product to what customers are looking for.
 
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Sadly, I would not be surprised if you get a cease and desist letter from Spotify.
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There are a lot of sites that end with the suffix "-ify" off the top of my head I can think of spotify, chargify, adify, mobify, crowdify, and shopify. They do not have a monopoly on those three letters, and would most likely be shamed by the startup community for filing a lawsuit over such trivial matters. If I were building a music site or infringed on any other property of theirs this would be another story.
 
Do those names work for them?
 
good luck - I have no insight whatsoever and never ship things at all, but I hope it works out for you.
 
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I have a lot of contacts within the industry, ( my father is a truck driver and runs a small company of 10 people). The freight industry is incredibly large and fragmented so I am not too worried about the bigger players in the market. Even though freight quote does 500 million in revenue it really is not much in a 650 billion dollar US market. What differentiates the product is the advanced search, which allows carriers to find an optimal load based on their preferences, and the increased flexibility of having all the features online. If you need to change something it is just a click away instead of having to go through a chain of command like the current brokering system. I am focusing on transparency, simplicity, and lower transaction costs. I will know what works quickly and will adapt the product to what customers are looking for.
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That's good to hear. Don't take this the wrong way (the site looks nice), but it's extremely difficult to take a site these days that can be put together with Ruby on Rails or any of other rapid web development framework that doesn't really do anything technically challenging and make money with it. Just about the only way I've seen is the above - having contacts to give a head start, a previous business to leverage, and high industry knowledge. I've worked for 2 dot.coms that failed despite having millions of dollars in seed funding, and one that never got off the ground. The one that never got off the ground was extremely similar to your site (not freight obviously) but had no insider influence to get an early user base.

Only thing I'd add is that we designed and launched the FAST program for Customs - it allowed truck drivers rapid access to cross the border with approved shipping loads. Getting that community to use the internet in a competent manner was extremely difficult. First, many simply don't have computers, or when they did they used shared computers at stores and stops along their routes which hardly ever had updated browsers or fast connections. So we had to re-code everything to avoid HTML5 or any other advanced dynamic html stuff, and if the iPhone/Droid usage was where it is now we'd have added apps as well. When there's a problem those customers are going to want to call someone and talk to them about it, not use help or anything online. If that's too daunting, it may be that you're really b2b and could focus on a SAS model for other companies if it really is so fragmented.

Anyway, good luck, always find entrepreneurship efforts like these interesting.
 
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you'd have to deal with these guys for www.movemyshit.com

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