[prawn]

Any locale I searched had zero results. You should at least encourage people in that situation to be the first to list something.

Probably a good idea to focus on a particular location first and spread out from there. And prioritise that location on the front page, rather than having it empty with just a search field.

If I visit and find nothing for my location, I will never return. Just pick your home town or something and focus on that.

[kristianc]

This — two sides marketplaces are probably the hardest type of business to grow and scale, you'd be much better at focusing on a specific locale and directing traffic there (even with social/PPC) than going with an empty search box.

[blunum]

Yes agree, its initially hard to get content on the site, showing other places that has some content from the home page is a great idea