The number one rule in startups, just like any other endeavor is just do it and unleash the potentials you never knew you got. TRY is key. Very often we read a lot of rules, dos and donts from successful people and finally just get confused. A lot of them won't tell you they learned their mistakes early on, made corrective adjustments and moved along.
This application needs userid for many other additional functionality and so has to track who the user is. That has always been the reason why logins are needed in applications. If you just doing a onetime request like a google search then no login is needed. Even a simple blog requires login to track your comments. Thats the way the web goes. Thats until someone comes up with a solution like single-sign-on.
readme, Thanks for the extensive feedback. On the content, I now have indeed publisher account to get the data legally and even earn commission. CL doesn't expose any public API and their TOS explicitly bans screen scraping.
Some of the issues on the UI is because I am using app framework which promises it working on most mobile devices.
Thanks jcr for the comments. 1 mile is the goal. Not the starting point. I have not restricted the distance from the beginning until I get critical mass.
I agree, it's really a pain to maintain older browsers.
I have been wrestling with a solution to help wage and part time workers find work in short distances and avoid unnecessary commuting costs. This is especially true since the type of jobs these people do can be produced and consumed by almost everyone. A beta webapp is here http://1milejobs.com. We will be coming up with mobile versions later.
This story encapsulates the complexities of the human nature. For every individual with guilt about his new-found wealth there at least two on the other extreme who would loose no sleep over it and sometimes even if the wealth is ill-gotten.