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I think it looks great!

In order for other people to start using it, it needs to look like it's being used. I think that you should create about a 100 users and add a few hundred products and comments. It'll take you a few hours of work, but it'll make the site appear to be much more successful, thus bringing in more users.

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I agree - you need to fake some data... it sounds kind of shady but it's common and necessary for a service like this. I would do it myself, but you can outsource on amazon mechanical turk (if it's dead easy), or use something like elance.

Totally agree, right now the site doesn't look like it's being used. In fact it isn't cause it's brand new.

However I don't want to make all this monotone work. Do you know any place where I could outsource that?

In all honesty, I'd just go ahead and do it yourself. It's easy mindless work. Put a movie on the tv, sit back with your laptop and just go at it. You'll get more done by the end of the film than you'd think.

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