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Hi all.....I want to take suggestion from all of you. I have developed an idea about developing a website whose main purpose will be to advertise people registered in it.
Actually what I am thinking is to develop a website where one would be able to share anything with all others. Things like any event or future plan or fact or any humorous joke or any thing, like in Facebook. There will be categories based on the types of things that can be shared. Now, the people will be able to rate his shared thing. The people with higher ratings for each category will get advertised (like showing their information in brief or about them information) in every user's page of the website. This is just the outline of my concept.
Now, I have searched a lot related to this concept but I am not able to find it. I am sure there will be other websites too like this. Can you lease give your suggestions about the concept and please provide me any source, if present, related to the concept.
Actually what I am thinking is to develop a website where one would be able to share anything with all others. Things like any event or future plan or fact or any humorous joke or any thing, like in Facebook. There will be categories based on the types of things that can be shared. Now, the people will be able to rate his shared thing. The people with higher ratings for each category will get advertised (like showing their information in brief or about them information) in every user's page of the website. This is just the outline of my concept.
Now, I have searched a lot related to this concept but I am not able to find it. I am sure there will be other websites too like this. Can you lease give your suggestions about the concept and please provide me any source, if present, related to the concept.
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So, you want to make a social sharing website. But, all users must have something worth advertising, and the incentive to share is so that they can advertise to other people who advertise?
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Advertising people means an effort to give a sense of recognition to them...a sort of fame...people will get to know the names of those who will be rated high regularly...superdezign wrote:So, you want to make a social sharing website. But, all users must have something worth advertising, and the incentive to share is so that they can advertise to other people who advertise?
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Oh. Like Digg mixed with Technorati?
Digg is about sharing interesting things found on the internet, but doesn't give explicit recognition to it's most active users. Technorati is about sharing blogs, and it gives a lot of recognition to its most popular members.
Digg is about sharing interesting things found on the internet, but doesn't give explicit recognition to it's most active users. Technorati is about sharing blogs, and it gives a lot of recognition to its most popular members.
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You can say that....here instead of normal advertisements....people will get advertisedsuperdezign wrote:Oh. Like Digg mixed with Technorati?
Digg is about sharing interesting things found on the internet, but doesn't give explicit recognition to it's most active users. Technorati is about sharing blogs, and it gives a lot of recognition to its most popular members.
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Well, what are you asking us for? Input? Ideas?
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Your views about the concept...whether it is worth of implementing???superdezign wrote:Well, what are you asking us for? Input? Ideas?
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Every idea is worth making. You never know what the "next big thing" will be. However, when it comes to specifics, that's your job. We aren't here to do our job for you! Give us your ideas, and then we'll help you clarify or itemize them. But, most of us won't help you come up with the ideas.
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Thnx for ur view...superdezign wrote:Every idea is worth making. You never know what the "next big thing" will be. However, when it comes to specifics, that's your job. We aren't here to do our job for you! Give us your ideas, and then we'll help you clarify or itemize them. But, most of us won't help you come up with the ideas.
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Ideas are a dime a dozen. It doesn't take a caveman to look at the top 100 list on the internet and come up with some wild spin off. Its all in the implementation ! If only I had a nickel for each person that came to me and thought they had the next big idea.
A good business model is something servicing an industry at least 100yrs old, if you are a startup it will ideally be a small non competitive niche. No idea is worth its weight in gold unless it solves a problem. Your customer has to look at your product and say I need (not want) this, and theres no better way I can get it than to pay ___ (your name here)___. If you think the solution is worth $200 you gotta charge $175. Make an offer they can't refuse, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch8uCOPbH7I
At least this is how I got my stuff off the ground, following this ideology. I'm sure you can find counter-examples like pet rocks & furbies, but this my 2 cents. Personally I don't think good business ideas are invented, they are uncovered. Stop trying to think of what you think is important. I don't know.. you know the saying "look with your eyes"? In business you have to look with their eyes. What you see or think doesn't matter if they think its crap. I didn't think of my business idea, someone asked me to make a solution for a really hard problem. I gave them a great deal because I saw lots of people had the problem. Then I decided to resell the solution. Before this I spent years working on what I thought was a great idea. I didn't make a cent off that project.
A good example of this is how every TV manufacturer has spent Billions with a B working on "3d" when I would pay them 10x as much for technology that could even out the volume of the commercials, or a built in DVR for christs sake! I don't want no stinkin headache from some 3d glasses, novelty thing. However I'd give my right leg to fast forward the commercials without having to buy an external DVR. But what does the TV industry do? Invest billions into a solution when there was no problem in the first place.
For example, facebook groups already solve the need you are addressing. When I view a group I see all public posts with that groups name in its title. Do you think you can take on facebook by yourself. I always try to be positive but keep dreaming. My advice would be focus on writing good code. Take on freelance projects and try to out do yourself on every project. When you get the "right" project you'll just know that its your business idea.
A good business model is something servicing an industry at least 100yrs old, if you are a startup it will ideally be a small non competitive niche. No idea is worth its weight in gold unless it solves a problem. Your customer has to look at your product and say I need (not want) this, and theres no better way I can get it than to pay ___ (your name here)___. If you think the solution is worth $200 you gotta charge $175. Make an offer they can't refuse, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch8uCOPbH7I
At least this is how I got my stuff off the ground, following this ideology. I'm sure you can find counter-examples like pet rocks & furbies, but this my 2 cents. Personally I don't think good business ideas are invented, they are uncovered. Stop trying to think of what you think is important. I don't know.. you know the saying "look with your eyes"? In business you have to look with their eyes. What you see or think doesn't matter if they think its crap. I didn't think of my business idea, someone asked me to make a solution for a really hard problem. I gave them a great deal because I saw lots of people had the problem. Then I decided to resell the solution. Before this I spent years working on what I thought was a great idea. I didn't make a cent off that project.
A good example of this is how every TV manufacturer has spent Billions with a B working on "3d" when I would pay them 10x as much for technology that could even out the volume of the commercials, or a built in DVR for christs sake! I don't want no stinkin headache from some 3d glasses, novelty thing. However I'd give my right leg to fast forward the commercials without having to buy an external DVR. But what does the TV industry do? Invest billions into a solution when there was no problem in the first place.
For example, facebook groups already solve the need you are addressing. When I view a group I see all public posts with that groups name in its title. Do you think you can take on facebook by yourself. I always try to be positive but keep dreaming. My advice would be focus on writing good code. Take on freelance projects and try to out do yourself on every project. When you get the "right" project you'll just know that its your business idea.
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Reminds me of my Craigslist days... loljosh wrote:Ideas are a dime a dozen. It doesn't take a caveman to look at the top 100 list on the internet and come up with some wild spin off. [...] If only I had a nickel for each person that came to me and thought they had the next big idea.
"I have a really good idea, and I need you to make it. I just need to know you won't steal it."
"Okay, what is it?"
"I want to make a (insert concept here) website."
"Like (famous website).com?"
"Yeah, but better."
Like the hassle of sending all of your friends frequent texts about what you are doing right now, and half of them not caring.josh wrote:No idea is worth its weight in gold unless it solves a problem.
Wiser words have never been spoken.josh wrote:Its all in the implementation !
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Thank you very much Josh for your suggestion....but I would like to add something...josh wrote:Ideas are a dime a dozen. It doesn't take a caveman to look at the top 100 list on the internet and come up with some wild spin off. Its all in the implementation ! If only I had a nickel for each person that came to me and thought they had the next big idea.
A good business model is something servicing an industry at least 100yrs old, if you are a startup it will ideally be a small non competitive niche. No idea is worth its weight in gold unless it solves a problem. Your customer has to look at your product and say I need (not want) this, and theres no better way I can get it than to pay ___ (your name here)___. If you think the solution is worth $200 you gotta charge $175. Make an offer they can't refuse, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch8uCOPbH7I
At least this is how I got my stuff off the ground, following this ideology. I'm sure you can find counter-examples like pet rocks & furbies, but this my 2 cents. Personally I don't think good business ideas are invented, they are uncovered. Stop trying to think of what you think is important. I don't know.. you know the saying "look with your eyes"? In business you have to look with their eyes. What you see or think doesn't matter if they think its crap. I didn't think of my business idea, someone asked me to make a solution for a really hard problem. I gave them a great deal because I saw lots of people had the problem. Then I decided to resell the solution. Before this I spent years working on what I thought was a great idea. I didn't make a cent off that project.
A good example of this is how every TV manufacturer has spent Billions with a B working on "3d" when I would pay them 10x as much for technology that could even out the volume of the commercials, or a built in DVR for christs sake! I don't want no stinkin headache from some 3d glasses, novelty thing. However I'd give my right leg to fast forward the commercials without having to buy an external DVR. But what does the TV industry do? Invest billions into a solution when there was no problem in the first place.
For example, facebook groups already solve the need you are addressing. When I view a group I see all public posts with that groups name in its title. Do you think you can take on facebook by yourself. I always try to be positive but keep dreaming. My advice would be focus on writing good code. Take on freelance projects and try to out do yourself on every project. When you get the "right" project you'll just know that its your business idea.
Josh...what I have observed and been told by many people....to be a successful business....don't look at the problems....create problems for people. Except food, clothes, shelter and weapons...others are created by some people for others. Take any example Josh....u said TV....I had never been a need during ancient period....but once it was created by someone...it has become a need for almost everyone. Have you ever heard that people during the time of Christ were trying to manufacture TV? I dont think so. Even Facebook is now becoming need of everyone...but life before its implementation was also going smoothly. All these things have made the life easier. May be I am wrong...but what I feel is to create problems for people and then give sol.
And considering free lancer projects.. I want involve myself in such projects but I need to have much time to get involved. For that I am planning to go for MS course from a good university
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The need that TV solves is entertainment. People were solving that need with other solutions back then.K-Z wrote:create problems for people. Except food, clothes, shelter and weapons...others are created by some people for others. Take any example Josh....u said TV....I had never been a need during ancient period....but once it was created by someone...it has become a need for almost everyone. Have you ever heard that people during the time of Christ were trying to manufacture TV? I dont think so.
Facebook solves the need of socializing, keeping in touch. Facebook doesn't make people need to socialize, it just allows them to. Facebook didn't invent the need. Neither did Bell Graham with the telephone. First man grunted. Then he gestured, Then he spoke, Then we learned to write, then we delivered messages via horseback. When we first established a postal service in the USA that didn't make people need to stay in touch, it just allowed them to finally solve the need that always was there. The need to keep in touch is a 300 Million year old industry. Facebook didn't create the need, they just took the previous guy's solution and changed it around, like all inventors.K-Z wrote: Even Facebook is now becoming need of everyone...but life before its implementation was also going smoothly. All these things have made the life easier. May be I am wrong...but what I feel is to create problems for people and then give sol.
Needs are always with us since we're born. TV didn't create my need to be entertained. It just intensified my desire to act on the impulse to solve the need. I want my TV. But if it got broken I could solve my need by reading a book or going on a walk.
The guy who invented TVs looked at people doing live plays and said we can save money on paying all these actors, if we could "record" it like a phonograph did with sound at the time. Or like a still picture camera. He took a variety of solutions to different problems and re-purposed them to address an age old need.
Anyways my suggestion boils down to this Yes - people need to stay in touch, but you want to "one up" what is already existing, not simply copy them. I had skimmed your post and your idea was so vague I didn't feel like you had a solid vision of what you want to build. If you're going to try to solve the same need as facebook, you're giving yourself a huge handicap in my opinion. They have groups, and event calendars already - which was the entirety of your idea.
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What I am thinking to implement is entirely different from facebook grps. It will be a website where there would be fixed groups already. As one would register himself in the website, he will be the part of all the groups. Example, in a grp named news, one will be able to share any news with others. Similary, in a grp say humor, one would share any humorous event or a joke with all others. After sharing, others will be able to rate the shared thing. The ratings of one's posts ion each grp will eventually rate him in that grp. And the highly rated people will get advertised in every user's page by showing their brief info.....just like normal advertisements.josh wrote:The need that TV solves is entertainment. People were solving that need with other solutions back then.K-Z wrote:create problems for people. Except food, clothes, shelter and weapons...others are created by some people for others. Take any example Josh....u said TV....I had never been a need during ancient period....but once it was created by someone...it has become a need for almost everyone. Have you ever heard that people during the time of Christ were trying to manufacture TV? I dont think so.
Facebook solves the need of socializing, keeping in touch. Facebook doesn't make people need to socialize, it just allows them to. Facebook didn't invent the need. Neither did Bell Graham with the telephone. First man grunted. Then he gestured, Then he spoke, Then we learned to write, then we delivered messages via horseback. When we first established a postal service in the USA that didn't make people need to stay in touch, it just allowed them to finally solve the need that always was there. The need to keep in touch is a 300 Million year old industry. Facebook didn't create the need, they just took the previous guy's solution and changed it around, like all inventors.K-Z wrote: Even Facebook is now becoming need of everyone...but life before its implementation was also going smoothly. All these things have made the life easier. May be I am wrong...but what I feel is to create problems for people and then give sol.
Needs are always with us since we're born. TV didn't create my need to be entertained. It just intensified my desire to act on the impulse to solve the need. I want my TV. But if it got broken I could solve my need by reading a book or going on a walk.
The guy who invented TVs looked at people doing live plays and said we can save money on paying all these actors, if we could "record" it like a phonograph did with sound at the time. Or like a still picture camera. He took a variety of solutions to different problems and re-purposed them to address an age old need.
Anyways my suggestion boils down to this Yes - people need to stay in touch, but you want to "one up" what is already existing, not simply copy them. I had skimmed your post and your idea was so vague I didn't feel like you had a solid vision of what you want to build. If you're going to try to solve the same need as facebook, you're giving yourself a huge handicap in my opinion. They have groups, and event calendars already - which was the entirety of your idea.
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That sounds like exactly like digg or reddit now...