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We need to get over the chicken and egg problem of enough postings first

Suggestion use the ebay API to populate (it can also bring some affiliate income).

Any thought for exposing your API. I think this can be a great application to foster micro-communities.

Thanks for the ebay pointer I will look at it. I know scraping craigslist is not the way to go :-)

Yes, we have discussed allowing private or subscription townfliers for micro-communities. That might be the next step.