Simple concepts… great results
October 11, 2006
One of the guys from work suggested that I could probably pull of a great concept site. Something like YouTube (wishful thinking). I’ve been pondering the comment. Can I really do it? Can I pull something off like that? Maybe not to that scale, but a great concept.
So this evening I was thinking of some concepts. I’ve seen a few sites that have great ideas, and very simple too. Take YouTube for example. The premise? Allow people to share videos. How difficult is that? Well conceptually it’s incredibly simple. From an architectural standpoint, however, it becomes a little complicated. The bandwidth requirements for something that simple must be huge, but that’s not the point here.
Another simple concept, LinkedIn. The premise? Allow users to share relationships with other people. Be it colleges, or friends, the site shares the information. Why? To build networks. The idea? The more people you have visibility with, the better it is.
Another one, LivePlasma. Ever used Amazon, and looked at a book, where it shows the recommendation on what other people have been buying? This app uses the same concept (wouldn’t actually surprise me if they are using Amazon’s APIs). Type in an artist, and it’ll build a relationship of other artists based on what others buy/listen to. MusicMap is another case of this.
All of the above examples also have massive potential for income. Not simply from goliath’s like Google buying you, but small things. LivePlasma can get revenue from using Amazon accounts when it displays links to artists (they probably do). YouTube could show a short clipet of a few seconds before each video, a banner for a sponsor or something. LinkedIn has the potential to reach out to thousands of employment agencies (I believe I’ve seen a dice.com ad on there at least once or twice).
These are just a couple of examples, and doesn’t even go into others like FaceBook, ClassMates, Flickr, Digg, del.icio.us, and the likes. So what’s my idea? I’ve no idea yet. I’m all out of juice in my creativity engine. However, if you have an idea, and need a coder/sysadmin, drop me an email/comment.
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I'm a full time network administrator, working for a large company in the automotive industry. I enjoy spending time with my family, when I get away from work that is. I also enjoy photography, and computer programming.
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October 25th, 2006 at 12:54
Trust me…you are number 1 on my list if I come up with anything.
And if you come up with any hair-brained ideas and need a Preventer of Information Technology….feel free to contact me!
October 27th, 2006 at 22:52
Of course, every operation must have it’s trusty preventor of information technology.
October 30th, 2006 at 23:59
[...] A few weeks ago, I posted about getting a million dollar project going. I’m terribly at ideas, so I have been working on engaging my brain. However, I get a call today from Bill. This is where necessity is the mother of all creations. He was working away, when suddenly his outlook refused to connect to their exchange server, and had taken the rest of his office off too. The weird thing was the internet was still working. Did they have a downed exchange server? Nope… silly routing issues. [...]