How to setup scaled-down Craigslist for my struggling rural area?
breck: I tried this for my hometown of 100,000 3 years ago. I spent about 50 hours on it (it was called brocktonpost.com). It had amazing features. No one used it.My recommendation: Wait for Craigslist to come in.> less than 15,000 people or soIf 1% of people used this, that's 150 people. You might want to start with a simpler email group instead. If you can get 150 using an email list, then make a website to accompany it.The hard part isn't the software. In fact, it's 1000x easier to get the software going than to get people to use it.