So, an active duty US Marine, Sammy Villareal, just launched
Mymilitaryclassifieds.com—basically Craigslist for the military.

Per TechCruch:

Villarreal hired a programmer and launched MyMilitaryClassifieds.com (catchy name), a free classifieds site organized by military installation. It’s just launching and so there isn’t much content on the site yet (and there are a couple of typos), but if you’re, say, in the Navy and stationed in Iceland, this might be a good place to sell those unwanted DVDs.

This is one of those things that makes me go “SERIOUSLY??? No one has DONE that already?”

Brilliant.

Quite a grounding reality check at a time when so much whiz-bang content is hitting the Net.

Makes me think that if something as obvious as a “Craigslist for the military” has been overlooked for this long, then maybe it’s time for industry hipsters to take a nice deep breath and go back to basics—focus a bit less on being so cutting-edge and entertainment-techie, and focus more on providing online stuff people actually NEED.