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Website Ideas
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Website Ideas
#1Ideas often arrive as if out of nowhere, and tend to be directed into worlds very distant from our own.
But on occasion, they almost, like, seem to fit into our dimension, you know? And the inner inmate starts to wonder - could they be usable in the "real world"?
Whatever, this shall be the store of this kind. Who knows, maybe I'll use them someday myself.
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ScamFinder - a search engine/directory gathering the various sites with 'opportunities', excellent job offers, and assorted pyramid schemes. Using data ranging from domain records up to fonts employed and words used, any website can be rated on how serious it appears, and at least the most obvious scams can be identified.
Hurdles:
- create a good algorithm
- make the initial batch and then hope for growth
Dark Horoscope - research some renown(???) way to generate horoscopes; and instead of concentrating on mellow feel-good phrases, show the potential dangers that await the dupes that actually believe in astrology.
Hurdles:
- study the whole thing deep enough to create individualized horoscopes, and build the generator
- may or may not work out/become popular
Torrent Data Analyzer - there exist many different ways of filesharing out there, often with varying legal status. Irrespective of that, they are not likely to vanish soon. Some are at least partially open for analysis - so why not use them for collecting marketing data about various songs, movies, series, etc.? Those things could be useful.
Hurdles:
- watch the thin line of legality
- get customers that would want the data
The Duel - a place, where two people with opposing views may choose to 'solve it once and for all' - and argue about an issue until it is debated to mutual satisfaction. While other people may comment, they are not considered important to the argument itself. There shall be also debate rules - no ad hominem attacks, etc. The internet tends to be a very chaotic place for discussion of loaded topics.
Hurdles:
- the rules and the finely tuned interface would be key here, central is always the debate of two
Internet Inheritance - covering the question, what happens to an individual's internet 'possessions' after death. Ranging from themes such as "I leave my WoW character's items to _____", through signing the deceased person out of forums, up to leaving behind entire websites, this business binds the real world to the specific conditions of the virtual.
Note:
- once it becomes accepted (which may be insanely hard), this could become a HUGE thing -
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#2My favorites are the Dark Horoscope and the Internet Inheritance. Those are fun. -
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#3A simple Chinese Horoscope database should provide your Dark Horoscope. -
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#4I would sign on to research Dark Horoscope! -
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#5
A simple Chinese Horoscope database should provide your Dark Horoscope.
The real question here is, what is the market of any given type of an astrological tradition? Plus, a personalized horoscope is more likely to earn money that something generic for a given sign, found in every other newspaper (or website).
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Really aside, I have just found that I am a "spunky monkey" according to the Chinese Horoscope. I'll just leave it without comment. -
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#6Fine Print
Would require another name, since a score of other things use it, but that's the shortest summary.
This website would collect information about all types of publicly available contracts. Specifically sought are caveats, special declarations and omissions, changing fees, harsh warranty conditions and so on, and so on, ad infinitum. Like Wikipedia for legalese, ugh. :)
Before entering a contract, you could simply look up what awaits you. Of course, it is the bigger companies with more customers that will be more likely to be analyzed, but you might just find what happens with your landline phone if you move to another city.
Once off the ground, it might snowball into a much larger venue, with all the whistles you can imagine. If it does.
There's quite a few customer service and complaints portals out there, it would be really nice to have it in one place. (Unless it's been already done. :) )
Hey, what a nice website: http://www.mouseprint.org/ -
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#7Dealbreaker
- community website/social network of sorts, gathers information on what are 'dealbreakers' for people in politics and in other venues, doing the statistics, discussing, etc.
- "I won't vote for a politician if he is for X." a classical example
- probably needs renaming as there is already dealbreaker.com, but the name just fits!
- excellent targeted advertising ($$$)
Hurdle:
- built 'for those with a definite opinion', it will attract a large number of jerks, but then, what doesn't -
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#8
The Duel - a place, where two people with opposing views may choose to 'solve it once and for all' - and argue about an issue until it is debated to mutual satisfaction. While other people may comment, they are not considered important to the argument itself. There shall be also debate rules - no ad hominem attacks, etc. The internet tends to be a very chaotic place for discussion of loaded topics.
Hurdles:
- the rules and the finely tuned interface would be key here, central is always the debate of two
(Could be IntelecDuel or some other weird name.)
Rules and requirements on the user interface:
- two specifically picked users make posts (not dissimilar to a blog or forum thread), anyone can comment on each post; one moderator, usually in the background
- the only thing of importance are the posts, comments are at best secondary; however, comments made by the duelants will be emphasized; it is perfectly valid to use arguments from comments
- voting on the quality of discussions/duels and/or singular posts
- a duelant may pass the baton to another person at any time; however, there are always only two people in the discussion
- a duelant may also recognize his defeat, closing the topic, or put down the baton when running out of arguments or steam
- wiki-like revision history, but limited to their own posts
- detailed rules (well strong recommendations) on the debate itself and using the interface
Many frameworks allow fine tweaking of themes, but are a little hard with changing user permissions; this is like a wiki+blog with some finely tuned user perms. It would be of course easiest to use an existing platform.
(check http://www.wikyblog.com/, Wordpress may be also of use)