Other than that a place to publish documents where you have more easy control over the formatting than at google docs, (ie. it's easy to choose how wide the text is), and also places to publish photos where they can be seen at their REAL size, so if they're 3503x2634 they'll show up that big rather than being shrunk.
These places probably exist and I've just not found them, of course.
And deviant art doesn't count.
A website that I found I needed, but only found an out-of-date useless version of is a comprehensive guide to PC games in relation to DRM. For example, if I want to buy Mass Effect, what DRM does it use?
Probably wouldn't catch on, but an online substitute for Opera's session management so you can create premade homepages so that when you open your browser with it as your homepage, it opens a collection of pages you've selected to open.
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobileYou used Twitter as an example. The reason Twitter is successful is that it's an idea that rivals the stupidity of the general populous, of which with regard to technology, is essentially Facebook and text messages. Facebook+SMS=Twitter.
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It offers a pretty decent marketplace, for example i'm looking for a particular vinyl, long out of print on regular outlets ... i find the entry ... there is a link telling me that there are 6 for sale for instance, i click that it lists the users who are selling with their price, description of the item's condition, where they ship from etc. if i decide to buy one of them, i put it in my basket and i checkout. by doing that the seller gets a message, sends me the total and his paypal address ... etc you understand how it is from there. there is a feedback system similar to ebay which is not perfect but it works well enough to ensure you won't be scammed too badly. The marketplace also gives a fair estimate for the going price of long out of print releases (as it's governed purely by forces of demand and supply) which is very useful.
On top of all this it offers very good forums for all kinds of music related discussion. it also allows users to create and join groups.
This is just a quick list of the main features. Why am i saying all of this? Maybe you or someone could design the equivalent of this for video games. I understand VG collectors are a smaller groups perhaps compared to record collectors, but that's changing. and also a lot of people use discogs for many reasons besides buying and selling so it has a very healthy volume of traffic.
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Listen to Wu-Tang and watch Kung-Fu
I agree that I will need to sink to the lowest common denominator of society and somehow get them to express what they would like to be able to do online, or what would make their online experience easier or more community-ish. Yesterday I asked my sister and she said "I don't care", then my mom asked me how to find Google. I need the demographic somewhere in between there.
Yodariquo said:
Probably wouldn't catch on, but an online substitute for Opera's session management so you can create premade homepages so that when you open your browser with it as your homepage, it opens a collection of pages you've selected to open.
Seems too much like iGoogle, and I don't know if the average person can think that far ahead to want to open the same 5-6 pages every session.
bugsonglass said:basically a huge database of (almost) every (video game) release ever. Different formats, re-issues, special editions etc are all different entries in the database.
Seems good but incredibly daunting to gather all the information. And basically every gaming site has this built into their search feature to a lesser extent.
With the general Internet user in mind, the best my diabolical mind can come up with in twenty minutes are two things:
talktrash.com - Something with an URL along those lines. Basically, an Urban Dictionary format dedicated being able to anonymously talk crap behind people's backs. Type in a Person/Place/Thing to search if someone has dirt on it already; if not, then be the first to talk trash about it. People love complaining, and talking shit behind their Internet shield, so it's an automatically viral idea. This site will probably require some moderation and report buttons, to keep out bots with spam links, and people who try to turn the website into a discussion forum, and argue how someone/something is awesome, instead.
webbattle.com - More of a novelty site, and I think it's been done already. Type something into Box A and something into Box B and they'll clash in some sort of random RPG battle.
Listen to Iced Earth and play Doom
The only thing I got I'm still keeping secret because I may actually do something with it one day.
What I would like though is a cloud-based podcast subscription tracker. I cannot install I-tunes and Juice doesn't work for me (I can't install anything on my Vista machines -- it's fucked), so I trapse through about 20 sites everyday seeing if they have updated their podcast, it's like doing the rosary.
aspro73 said:The only thing I got I'm still keeping secret because I may actually do something with it one day.
What I would like though is a cloud-based podcast subscription tracker. I cannot install I-tunes and Juice doesn't work for me (I can't install anything on my Vista machines -- it's fucked), so I trapse through about 20 sites everyday seeing if they have updated their podcast, it's like doing the rosary.
I think I've got a simpler solution for you: http://www.google.ca/reader
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So I come with an offer, and a plea. Give me your great website ideas, and I will make them a reality. It seems like I'm not going to be getting a job this summer, and I can't think of any great business ideas I can start in real life. So as a last effort of sorts, I have some money and a lot of time to devote to creating the next big website. I'll take any ideas on with reasonable prospects, maybe more than one if you guys can think that hard. If your idea is really good and takes off, like the next Twitter or something, I might even paypal you a few hundred bucks or some future repayment.
One angle I've considered is "make your own" kind of sites, expanding blogging services like Wordpress into specialized user-friendly creation sites like "Make your own webcomic", "Make your own porn site", etc. where I re-sell hosting (or take a cut of ad revenue) and provide easy-to-use templates and other things for people who might be too overwhelmed to build their own site from the ground up.
- No MLM / Pyramid Schemes unless I am starting them, then you guys get first dibs at being second level.
- I'd prefer not to sell products or start an eBay store, unless it's something no one else is already doing
- Please, no ideas involving sites devoted to Steel's balls. I realize that it would make us all millionares, but I just won't sink to that level.
PS: Instant web design job for Yoda.