A free Craigslist alternative with old-school roots.

Findit Classifieds is 100% free to use. You will not be asked for a payment method to advertise your local for-sale-by-owner items or small business services.

The site began as a prototype classified advertising platform that spun out of an Internet advertising business started by brothers Rick Cable and Richard Cable in Houston, Texas in 1997.

Richard passed from cancer in 1999 and never lived to see the completed product. Rick continued building and maintaining the site over the years as a labor of love.

Built, maintained, and protected independently.

The entire site was coded by Rick over the course of many years, mostly during nights, weekends, and spare time. FinditClassifieds is intentionally simple, independent, and focused on giving people a free place to post local listings.

• Free to use.
  No payment method is required. Karma rules: treat people with respect and be honest.
• Privacy-focused.
  The site asks for minimal information and removes old, low-value data whenever possible.
• Security-aware.
  FinditClassifieds uses behavioral monitoring and anti-abuse protections through SiteSpy.

Security partnership: powered by SiteSpy.

SiteSpy operates inside the IIS application layer and analyzes live HTTP behavior. It helps identify suspicious patterns such as reconnaissance, scripted browsing, malformed requests, and abnormal request sequencing.

When malicious patterns are detected, SiteSpy can record telemetry and update firewall rules to restrict hostile sources. The goal is to protect real users while limiting automated abuse.

Protecting a long-running marketplace

FinditClassifieds has been online across multiple generations of the web. SiteSpy helps separate normal visitors and legitimate indexing from automated abuse, allowing the site to remain available while hostile automation is progressively restricted.