Ask HN: Does this idea exist and who wants it?

I've been in the middle of working on a start-up for the past 8 months or so, and during that time I've only had one idea that I thought to myself "That idea is worth a lot more money than the one you are working on right now, and it would be easier to engineer."

I wonder if this app already exists. If it doesn't, feel free to run with it if you see the same potential I did.

The app is this - a button to turn a Flickr account into an online store, where people can order prints or pay for the rights to use photos. Everything starts off at a dollar, but it's fully customizable.

Having tinkered with the Flickr API, I don't think this would be hard to engineer. And I think there is an easy revenue model (a cut of sales), a low barrier to entry for users, and a large long tail to make money off of.

So anyways, that's it. I know ideas are worthless, but if you want this one, it's yours.

EDIT: I'm working o n a website for hikers - www.trailbehind.com. Probably less money in it, but it's something I'm passionate about.

Sounds good until Yahoo! integrates it into their site...

...by buying your company. ^_^

I assume you meant "second" person. Surely everyone does this. "You don't really want X." "Dammit, Randall, that was a stupid idea."

You don't do this?

Better if default price is a quarter rather than a dollar.