May 23, 2008 at 11:25Thoughts on projects and not only ...
Here came a thought.
Startups are fashionable. Sometimes completely absurd projects start and die. Sometimes there are decent, but too invisible. And the whole point is whether it will be possible to drive into the heads of Internet users the fact that they need it or is useful. The fact is that this must be driven in constantly and everywhere. To bring people to automatism. Every time, forcing us to go the same way.
I know stupid.
Well, what I thought about the project.
Maybe there is one, or it can be done by existing services, I don’t know.
Task: There is a guy (X) and a girl (Y). X saw Y climbing the escalator in the subway at Pushkinskaya station at about 12-00 Moscow time. X cannot and does not want to forget Y.
Question: How to help X find Y with minimal labor and time costs. Use the brain is not forbidden.
Solution: Create a service, for example (FindXY.ru) where, after registration (and for the time of promotion, allow users to search without registration (naturally, it will be possible to find only those who are registered there.) Break the portal into catch parts, for example (City Metro Area), allow to add materials to facilitate the search for photographs of the picture of the song. Allow to add an audio appeal. The main thing is not to turn it into a social network. The goal will not be to keep visitors and their constant influx and inevitable outflow (after finding the desired).
Conclusion: Even if X registers there and doesn’t find Y, maybe the acquaintances of that same Y will find him. In any case, with proper advertising, people will know we are meeting (not at the fountain’s Central Department Store) but on FindXY.ru
Monetization: Advanced functionality for simultaneous monitoring those whom you are looking for with the ability to detect SMS sending (well, let's say.) You can come up with a lot of useful things.
Difficulties: Advertising and the very “grinding” of people, that if you get lost, always meet at FindXY.ru
PS The project is so far only a figment of the imagination.
Startups are fashionable. Sometimes completely absurd projects start and die. Sometimes there are decent, but too invisible. And the whole point is whether it will be possible to drive into the heads of Internet users the fact that they need it or is useful. The fact is that this must be driven in constantly and everywhere. To bring people to automatism. Every time, forcing us to go the same way.
I know stupid.
Well, what I thought about the project.
Maybe there is one, or it can be done by existing services, I don’t know.
Task: There is a guy (X) and a girl (Y). X saw Y climbing the escalator in the subway at Pushkinskaya station at about 12-00 Moscow time. X cannot and does not want to forget Y.
Question: How to help X find Y with minimal labor and time costs. Use the brain is not forbidden.
Solution: Create a service, for example (FindXY.ru) where, after registration (and for the time of promotion, allow users to search without registration (naturally, it will be possible to find only those who are registered there.) Break the portal into catch parts, for example (City Metro Area), allow to add materials to facilitate the search for photographs of the picture of the song. Allow to add an audio appeal. The main thing is not to turn it into a social network. The goal will not be to keep visitors and their constant influx and inevitable outflow (after finding the desired).
Conclusion: Even if X registers there and doesn’t find Y, maybe the acquaintances of that same Y will find him. In any case, with proper advertising, people will know we are meeting (not at the fountain’s Central Department Store) but on FindXY.ru
Monetization: Advanced functionality for simultaneous monitoring those whom you are looking for with the ability to detect SMS sending (well, let's say.) You can come up with a lot of useful things.
Difficulties: Advertising and the very “grinding” of people, that if you get lost, always meet at FindXY.ru
PS The project is so far only a figment of the imagination.