For Bitlist, I don't think it will take too long to start making money because of the owner's capability. They have close contact with many platforms that may be interested in promoting their platform on Bitlist.
I kind of agree with you, Bitlist's owner is an awesome person who's in contact with many platforms and who plays his role as a manager and that's also a tiring job.
The clients who already know him will surely consider to market their products on Bitlist, but right now the site needs some good traffic as that's very needed to gain attention of the platforms.
The Bitlist is a platform that most clients will prefer because this platform comes with a unique concept and I know that the owner is a hard working person who will add more features in the platform overtime.
Listening to you, it seems like it's an easy job to develop a platform from scratch to a reputable service in the community. The truth is that it requires a lot of effort and dedication.
I'm pretty sure bitlist.co will reach the planned level.
I would rather start a discussion here about the possible improvement of the platform. We as users could definitely help with ideas and new proposals.
I don't know how feasible it is, TryNinja probably has the answer, but it would be beneficial to have some kind of feedback on the site. For example, the star rating, which users would leave based on their experience with a certain service.
I believe that the biggest problem here is to filter out real feedback from fakes, but this is necessary because big services like Trustpilot have long since become unreliable.