The problem with sites that depend on user-generated content is that you need actual users to generate the content. If the users don’t create anything, your site is dead. After screaming and kicking at all the surfers I know, I still only had 40 accommodations on www.glissers.com. Which is far from the 500 I need for the site to be really useful. So what to do? Call India.
I now have an Indian friend helping me populate the directory. He doesn’t have Hemingway’s natural way of expressing himself in English, but he’s friendly and hard-working. I pay him 2 GBP / hour, and he works over the weekend. I like that a lot.
How is the content working out? Have you managed to populate the site with a good amount of content?