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The list of services you give are somewhat ironic.

It's easy to forget that once upon a time Craigslist was the dominant player in jobs, dating, housing, etc. but now all of those sectors are dominated by niche players.

Craigslist is dying a death of a thousand cuts, niche companies have gone after and in almost all cases taken the most profitable areas away from craigslist leaving it with the low-margin dregs.

Craigslist originated in a time when web discovery was hard, with the rise of sites like Google the discovery problem was solved and the advantage of Craigslist severely reduced.

If you want to take on a particular vertical from Craigslist you can probably figure out a way to do that vertical better, but if you try to build a generic service you're building a solution to a problem that no-longer exists.