I also loved couchsurfing (http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/cesidio http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/cesidio) and wanted to fix couchsurfing creating anothe

I also loved couchsurfing (http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/cesidio http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/cesidio) and wanted to fix couchsurfing creating another product, but I struggle to create interest around it and a viable business model... http://beta.minstrels.com/ http://beta.minstrels.com/ any help or advices would be very helpful. It is built in ruby on rails and uses mongodb as database and deployed on heroku. it is just a prototype at the moment, a working prototype but with fake data in it. The product is different from couchsurfing in the following things: 1) there are stories that form a user 'travel resume' that help users host real travelers and not just people wanting to get hosted for free 2) there is the concept of 'incentives' so a traveler can increase the chances of being hosted by providing something useful/entertaining to the potential host (small present, cooking a meal, sharing some knowledge on something) 3) there are 2 types of meetings: open meetings (where everyone can participate), close meetings (organizer can approve requests to participate)