Well the Shanghai Tourist Guide is becoming the Shanghai City Guide instead. I'm worried that I have everything and that I don't know what to do with it. Here are the key features

• Attractions
• Shopping
• Food
• Night Life
• Hotels
• Transportation
• Survival Chinese
• General China Information

Each one of those sections have loads of content within them.

The problem I am haing is visualizing the future of the guide. Yes first I need to launch it and see where it takes me but I really hope I can throw together a website that lets users create listings for the guide. Shanghai is a huge city and it is constantly changing. Yes I can keep my finger on the pulse of the city but I can't go to every attraction every week to make sure things are just the way I described it in the guide. I hope that I can launch a website similar to Urbanatomy.com or SmartShanghai.com and keep things minimalist. I hate advertisements and I hope that I can find some other way to monetize my work. Currently my idea is to charge for the app. This is good in many ways for you the user, you pay me a little money and I guarantee no advertisements and unbiased articles. This is a purist tour guide approach like Frommers or Lonely Planet where the company makes money from the book sales and not the advertising within the book.

Of course the other option is I get things started and rolling with you the customer and then flood my updates with paid advertising that you the customer may or may not want.

For the moment the guide will be free and I hope I can get a user base. I simply ask you the reader to understand that my business model is not yet finished and that I reserve the right to change the way the guide works. I think that if I start charging for the guide I will have to republish it on the iTunes App Store and stop updating the older guide. I'll warn you in advance if this is going to happen

Okay back to coding I want this thing ready ASAP!