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Re: Random Ideas For Sites and Startups

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Post by manuelflara » Sat, Aug 18, 2012, 4:17 PM UTC

true_religion wrote: post #5

> Live Cam Porn – site with channels. People watch only live. The better girls perform, the better rating. The more people visit, the more money girls will make through revenue sharing. You can pay money to be the one to interact with the girl (tell them to do things, talk with them etc). This is a solved problem. :) I'm really surprised the author hasn't run into it before. > Chat Support This sounds like a great id…

>> Discussion Board Online > Sounds a little like Bridge.com as described.

You mean Branch.com?

Re: Random Ideas For Sites and Startups

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Post by manojlds » Sat, Aug 18, 2012, 4:17 PM UTC

Are these original? In app referal? Aren't there many already?

chat support? The example given, SO, HAS chat.

Mindmaps online? Used many.

And some perverted ideas!

Re: Random Ideas For Sites and Startups

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Post by cfontes » Sat, Aug 18, 2012, 4:28 PM UTC

90% of those already exist... did you at search for any of those ?

Re: Random Ideas For Sites and Startups

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Post by leftnode » Sat, Aug 18, 2012, 4:29 PM UTC

cfontes wrote: post #13

90% of those already exist... did you at search for any of those ?

Why is that a bad thing? Competition is generally good, and it helps prove theres somewhat of a market for these ideas already.

Re: Random Ideas For Sites and Startups

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Post by true_religion » Sat, Aug 18, 2012, 4:33 PM UTC

manuelflara wrote: post #11

true_religion wrote: post #5

> Live Cam Porn – site with channels. People watch only live. The better girls perform, the better rating. The more people visit, the more money girls will make through revenue sharing. You can pay money to be the one to interact with the girl (tell them to do things, talk with them etc). This is a solved problem. :) I'm really surprised the author hasn't run into it before. > Chat Support This sounds like a great id…

>> Discussion Board Online > Sounds a little like Bridge.com as described. You mean Branch.com?

That's the one. Thanks. I edited it to correct.

Re: Random Ideas For Sites and Startups

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Post by dong » Sat, Aug 18, 2012, 4:34 PM UTC

> Real Life Game

Though I've never tried it out, look at http://www.superbetter.com for an interesting take on this idea.

Plus the relevant TED talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfBpsV1Hwqs

Re: Random Ideas For Sites and Startups

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Post by brackin » Sat, Aug 18, 2012, 4:40 PM UTC

It's a bad idea to take a startup idea from this list and attempt to make a company out of it. You have to find something you're passionate about or something you want to fix.

I seem to come up with ideas daily which was somewhat of a problem but when I wanted to work on my second company I wasn't sure what to do and tried to brainstorm ideas, this eventually failed but I did come up with an idea I'm passionate about outside of this process.

Re: Random Ideas For Sites and Startups

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Post by AznHisoka » Sat, Aug 18, 2012, 4:40 PM UTC

corporalagumbo wrote: post #10

uh... let me get this straight: live cam porn? what the fuck. what sort of "idea" is that? are you a pervert or something? or do you just have no respect for women maybe? do you have experience interacting with normal human beings?

Porn is a billion dollar industry. He's just giving people what they want - he has no control over WHAT they want.

Re: Random Ideas For Sites and Startups

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Post by AznHisoka » Sat, Aug 18, 2012, 4:42 PM UTC

As for #1)In-app Referrals - I'm not so sure if this would be a business, but on the topic of apps, why not make a "Compete.com for apps", where you can track how many downloads a specific keyword can net you, or how many downloads another app has over time. of course, this type of data is only known by Apple, but you can run some heuristics for estimating it.

Also app-store optimization is something that's relatively unsaturated now. Perhaps some sort of tool that runs statistics and gives you correlations on what factors goes into an app ranking high for a keyword.

Re: Random Ideas For Sites and Startups

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Post by ipince » Sat, Aug 18, 2012, 4:51 PM UTC

corporalagumbo wrote: post #10

uh... let me get this straight: live cam porn? what the fuck. what sort of "idea" is that? are you a pervert or something? or do you just have no respect for women maybe? do you have experience interacting with normal human beings?

? why so shocked? These sites already exist, and they not only cater to "perverts" with "no respect" for women. Either that or you'll be sad to realize that most people are, in your eyes, perverts who have no respect for women.