11 Undiscovered Website Ideas to Steal and Make You Rich
It’s no secret: great ideas make the web spin around.
Community-based sites and web applications are rapidly becoming hot property. Young entrepreneurs are making startling amounts of money with simple ideas that connect people and places. Fancy becoming one of them?
The dream is a simple one: with careful planning and some spare time, someone just like you can take a smart concept, add some glitz and make a fortune. But where have all the hot ideas gone? Why are we seeing spin-offs, rip-offs and mash-ups instead of great new concepts? Where are all the rubies in the dust?
It turns out, they’re right where you’re standing. You just need to look a little harder. Here are 11 under-represented site ideas to steal today and make you rich tomorrow. Be quick! The clock’s already ticking.
1. The Reverse Job Board
The mini pitch: “Buy and sell work online.”
What it is: You know all those job boards you see littered around the web? This is a job board flipped on its head. Think of it as a “work wanted” board. Instead of employers posting job offers, this is a place for service providers to post requests for work.
How it works: Designers, developers, writers, and anyone else wanting work can post their request, together with the percentage or fixed fee they’d pay to someone providing a lead.
Why it’s hot: More people than ever are turning to the web as a source of work. Sometimes it’s very hard to find it, or very time-consuming to browse offers and make pitches. Wouldn’t it be great if people could find work for you? And imagine getting paid just for referring someone you know who needs a new website or logo design.
Where the money is: Take a commission when work is successfully placed, or charge a monthly fee to either buy requests or see contact details.
2. Community Consulting
The mini pitch: “Yahoo Answers for website owners.”
What it is: A place where website owners can pay for advice and get opinions from a wide community of experts, dabblers and end-users.
How it works: Website owners use credits to post a screenshot with a link to their site, together with a list of their goals. Community consultants give advice, and credits are dished out between them accordingly. Credits can be cashed in or spent on questions.
Why it’s hot: Opinions and advice are essential to improving your site. This concept would shift the balance from whopping consultancy fees for one person’s opinion to micro-payments and group-thinking. It also puts a value on your own opinions and sagely advice at long last!
Where the money is: Website owners buy credits. Perhaps it costs 25 credits for them to submit their site for community consulting. You could take 5 credits, and get them to spread the remaining 20 between those who respond.
3. Online Debating
The mini pitch: “Wikipedia for arguments”.
What it is: Arguments litter every forum and web hangout. They’re very rarely controlled, and scarcely intellectual, insightful, or conclusive. There must be space for an online debating site that was well-managed and moderated.
The nearest I’ve seen is Squidoo’s “Hey Monkey Brain,” but I’m sure there’s space for more.
How it works: Suggest an argument. Pick a side. Build your case. Encourage the responses of others.
Why it’s hot: Everyone loves expressing their opinion. Your task is to help them do it in a controlled way, and one that you can monetize!
Where the money is: There’s a possibility that people would pay a small fee to start a debate, but it’s far more likely that most of your income would come from affiliate sales and carefully matched advertising.
4. Web Concierge Services
The mini pitch: “Your online butler.”
What it is: Ever wanted to achieve something online, but couldn’t be bothered to spend ages searching around or filling in all those forms to book flights and cinema tickets?
How it works: You make a request by email, text or voicemail to your online butler. It could be anything at all — perhaps, “two tickets for Die Hard 8 at my local cinema tonight”. Your butler dutifully acts on your request. There are automated services that help with this out there already, but an efficient, human-powered offering would stand head-and-shoulders above the rest.
Why it’s hot: Outsourcing and personal virtual assistants are hot topics right now. A market-leading web concierge service could be big business. Think of all the high-fliers, entrepreneurs, and other busy people out there. You could start one service for the super-rich end of the scale as well as one for other busy folks with less cash to splash.
Where the money is: Monthly subscription fees or per-use charges are the way to go here.
5. Live Auction Sites
The mini pitch: “Buy it now on steroids.”
What it is: Online auction sites are great, but few of them capture the same adrenalin rush and buzz that you get from a real auction room. I think there’s still space for a well-executed live auction site that makes listing and bidding super-simple.
How it works: Imagine a list of iPhones for sale — you can only bid on the one at the top, and it’s only available for minutes instead of days. Bids are live and backed by escrow, and when the top item’s been sold, the ones below float upwards and a new item becomes active and open to bids.
Why it’s hot: As a seller, it’s becoming increasingly complicated to list things online, generate buzz, and make a quick sale. A simple live online auction site could solve all that.
Where the money is: Make it free to list and just charge a commission for successful sales. You need to think carefully about how you’ll guarantee that all bids (and items!) are genuine. This could be by asking users to deposit funds into their account prior to bidding, or some other way.
6. Skill Trading
The mini pitch: “Swap skills instead of bills!”
What it is: An online hub to swap your skills for those of others. Instead of paying for services, you simply swap your own.
How it works: Need something doing? Post a “help wanted” ad, together with a list of your own skills and examples of your work.
Why it’s hot: There are thousands of highly-skilled designers, developers, writers, illustrators, musicians and other talented folk littered across the web. But right now, there’s no good way to connect them. Provided you offer a way to mediate any disputes, and ensure that trades are fair and backed by guarantee, a skill trading site could be big business!
Where the money is: Charge monthly fees, or a smaller fee per swap request. Or simply charge for hopeful applicants to get contact info.
7. Speedy book, DVD, game and CD sales
The mini pitch: “Sell anything with a barcode. Fast.”
What it is: Do you have a stash of books, games, DVDs or CDs lying around that you’re not using any more? It seems a shame, doesn’t it? A site or piece of software that enabled scanning of barcodes using a web camera in order to quickly list books could save hours and make megabucks.
How it works: Sign up, scan your books and name your price. Job done! This could work as a website, or it could be a standalone application that linked in with something like Amazon’s Marketplace.
Why it’s hot: Thousands of people have stacks of unused books, games and other items. They’re just too lazy to list them! That’s where you come in.
Where the money is: Take a small commission of book sales. (Or charge a flat fee for the software if you go the stand-alone app route.)
8. A Read It Later Site
The mini pitch: “The web’s reading list.”
What it is: A community reading list for the web. Feed readers are great, but they’re not very sociable, and adoption by non-tech heads is pretty poor. What the web needs is something that everyone can use and understand — an internet reading list!
A site that combines reading, archiving and sharing is long overdue, and would be much more accessible a concept for your technically-challenged friends and family.
How it works: Ever come across a great article, but didn’t have time to read it? You could bookmark it, but you’ll probably forget about it pretty soon. Wouldn’t it be great if you could mark a page to “read it later” and have it stored in an online reading list?
Then, once a week, you could take an hour out of your day and read through everything, tag it with categories, and check out the week’s charts of the most-read items.
Why it’s hot: Feed readers are hot. Community-based sharing of links is hotter. Combine the two concepts for an explosive mix! Yes, there’s a Firefox plugin that does this, but we need something with wider reach.
Where the money is: This is another concept best exploited via advertising. Who says advertising isn’t a good basis for a business model? It’s worked rather well for Google and Digg seems to be doing OK too!
9. A Live House Price Index
The mini pitch: “What’s your house worth right now?”
What it is: A live house price site backed by a powerful data-model, where house prices are overlaid on a map. There are already sites that do this to some extent, and the market is crowded. But if you could put out the first site to offer truly live, by-the-second house prices you’d be swimming in cash.
How it works: The data modeling would be very complex. You’d have to rely on a community-based element to correct your prices, and build a reliable estimation system based on previous house sales, local trends, market effects and the opinion of your users.
Why it’s hot: Every home owner loves to know what their place is worth. For property investors with large portfolios, the opportunity to track the value by-the-second would be incredible valuable. Furthermore, estate agents could probably benefit from a people-powered market index to help with their own sales and estimation.
Where the money is: The possibilities to monetize this concept are endless. Think private house sale commission, affiliate sales, estate-agent and property investor subscriptions, advertising, community ads, and more!
10. Real-Time Public Billboards
The mini pitch: “Your ad anywhere. Right now.”
What it is: A network of billboards, news stands and projectors linked to a single website that allows regular people just like you to place adverts in public spaces. Think of the “one million pixel” site but outdoors.
How it works: You register, upload your advert, choose a location, hit go and see a live webcam feed of your ad displayed in any public space in the world.
Why it’s hot: The cost of billboard advertising is prohibative to most small businesses and individuals. A public, global, mini-billboard network of ads for regular people and businesses that updates at the click of a mouse could earn megabucks. Make it work, and I’m sure Google would want a word with you too.
Where the money is: Simply charge a flat fee or monthly recurring cost to place an ad. You could split your electronic billboards and projectors into small segments, or sell the whole space or network to one advertiser.
11. Website Sales
The mini pitch: “The place to buy and sell websites.”
What it is: If you’ve got an established website to sell, where do you go? There is still no clear-cut market leader in this field. What’s stopping you from filling that gap?
How it works: List your website for sale at either a flat fee or auction rate. Include screenshots, traffic, pagerank and earnings info and watch the money roll in!
Why it’s hot: Domain name sales are big business. But selling a website for what it’s really worth, or buying an online property in a trusted way is still rather tricky.
Where the money is: Take a commission from successful sales in return for offering escrow and listing services, or charge for each listing.
Daniel Scocco on March 11, 2008
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Great ideas. One of my sisters and I had once discussed something along the lines of #4, starting it with each of us taking a side, and seeing where it went from there. That’s as far as we ever went with the idea, as she was in college and never up to the details.
Maybe someone else will do it.
Great ideas, some are already done and others need to be drawn out more. I have tons of ideas myself, but I lack the time to do them all. Plus marketing them is so difficult.
I love the live auction and the billboard one.
If the billboards are electronic, you could rotate the ad every 30 or 60 seconds and keep to allow more advertisers at cheaper rates.
#8 A Read It Later Site: Already being done by Instapaper.com
Some really interesting out of the box ideas, I especially like the instant billboard one. Might have to steal that
Actually I like the last one as it really worked for my blog
Lots of interesting ideas. I would definitely pay for #4. Don’t want to build it myself, because I hate dealing with personnel! That’s why I would want someone else to do it for me.
Great ideas!
I’m not sure any are up my alley, but they are certainly very hot. I’d love to hire a concierge service if one were affordable to a middle-income single mom!
Thanks for the article,
Sherri
Well, great ideas. How about a community forum which maps and rates the various places in a particular city, places which are generally visited by us almost everyday.
Something like online gossip.
In Number 10, “prohibative” should be “prohibitive”.
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Aren’t these areas saturated? How much would it cost to support each and get them up an running? You’d have to be a web developer not an average joe. Right? I would love to know the quick and easy way to start any one of these if it would bring in revenue.
Ok let me say before I say anything else……I am not above 18 years old, and do not do anything illegal to make money in such manners listed above.
Do not mind my grammer, please, as I am in a rush.
About the last question
“Aren’t these areas saturated? How much would it cost to support each and get them up an running? You’d have to be a web developer not an average joe. Right? I would love to know the quick and easy way to start any one of these if it would bring in revenue.”
….aren’t these areas saturated….(not sure what that means, don’t have time to look it up)
Regarding your other question, how much would it cost to get any one of these things up and running…… 100% free. I actually have a couple of sites from a couple of different hosting companies, that give you the ability to make your own site 100% free, no strings attached. I have made numerous sites that are hosted for free and were not so hard to get up and running.
I am not above 18 years old, (anyone could do any of these) I do not know any computer language, but am a person who speaks English fluently (which is a must, if you want to get onto the right track of business, America is the worlds leading Economy).
Get yourself to x10hosting.com
Make yourself a free account, go to the control panel you’ll know what it is, once you get yourself an account. Click on fantastico. ( I understand you won’t listen to someone under 18 years old, but trust me just do it).
Once fantastico is opened up click on any type of site you like, that would fit would you want to make, install it. And learn how to read English or comprehend it more if you do not already.
From there, your on your own. With your new site. It is 100% free, I am not an advertiser, just a kid.
About these ideas, I actually go around site after site on google, looking for website ideas. I have sold sites online, on my forum, I have developed my own guides to making money online, (might be too expensive but costs $ 500 USD……100% money back guaranteed: all profits made are payed for by taxes, if purchase has been made please feel free to ask for my tax Identification number).
2 of the sites above I liked the ideas of them. And making them currently. just go to x10hosting.com….and read what it says.
Hope you get started, I am 16 years old and trust me, I have made hundreds of dollars online, through sites like this.
Reason I may be doing this…..I have always been told I am too young to do this or that, I am not too young, I love making money, (don’t worry my social life is nothing jeopardized).
contact me via lpresident@hotmail.com…..if you have any questions, though I do not check my mail except once a week for a couple of hours, since there are way too many.
Thankyou, I Am Lagron, from soon to be, Lagron Corp, (yes owned by a 16 year old).
Really great ideas. Thanks for sharing them. Loved the billboard one. Might try to do that someday.
Hmmmm. Food for thought. However, nothing is really jumping out at me like a must do!
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Here’s another idea for someone to steal: A recipe/ingredient database website.
Now, there are plenty of recipe websites (cooks.com, allrecipes.com, and so on). And on most of these websites, you can do a keyword search for part of the recipe’s title. On one or two of these websites, you can even search the database for all the recipes that contain a particular ingredient. If any one of these websites took this search tool a few steps farther, however, it would instantly sweep away its competitors.
I have, on countless occasions, found myself in a situation where I’m ready and willing to cook a meal for myself or my friends, but I’m at a total loss for ideas. This is particularly problematic when my pantry is looking bare. I might spend 30 minutes to an hour flipping through a cookbook for ideas (many of which I have to dismiss because I’m missing key ingredients), and the recipe websites that are currently available are really no different from my cookbooks in a practical sense.
Imagine, however, an online recipe database where someone could type in as many as 20 or 30 ingredients that they have on hand, and have a long list of recipe suggestions returned to them! If, for example, I have some basic staples (oil, flour, sugar, eggs), but not much else (a can of beans, a bunch of onions, a few pounds of potatoes, a jumble of condiments and spices, and a stray beer), chances are, I’ll say “the hell with it” and order pizza. However, with those few ingredients, I could make beer bread, savory potato pancakes, french fries, homemade pasta, potato salad with homemade mayonnaise, Native American fry-bread, traditional Japanese tea cakes with sweetened bean paste, potato dumplings, cupcakes…and undoubtedly many, many other items. If websites such as allrecipes.com could implement a more advanced search tool, it would be quite simple to type in the few ingredients you have on hand, hit enter, and wait for the results to roll in! This would be especially popular among adventurous cooks who’d like to try out some new things, i.e. regional dishes.
There would be plenty of ways to build on this idea, too. The website could offer – for a fee, probably – for someone to build a permanent profile where they could save their on-hand ingredients in an “online pantry.” It may be helpful to add in a few advanced-search tools, so that people can indicate what sort of equipment they have on hand (range, oven, grill, mixer, food processor, blender, etc). Finally, what about a “substitution” feature? If a recipe calls for brown sugar and you have none – but you do have white sugar and honey, you can mix these ingredients in the proper proportion to simulate brown sugar. Baking powder can be simulated with baking soda and cream of tartar. Ketchup can be simulated with, at a minimum, tomato paste, sugar, and vinegar. The search page could include an “include results with substitutions” option to generate more results.
These searches would be complex, so they’d need a lot of processing power, but that’s really the only downside I can see. A lot of money could be made off of the advertising (again, you’d blow your opponents out of the water), and a few of these features could be made available to paid subscribers only.
How ’bout it?
Got any other ones? lol
it has the potential of my space…….international……vanity
just when me and my friend discussing ideas had reached at stage where we would have either beaten up each other or some else around us, out of frustration, this article came as a welcome change. Cool ideas and thanks for helping us not indulge in sinful acts.
I’m not sure how someone from Africa is going to sell me tickets for my local cinema in AMsterdam or London, and charge me for that, but I really liked the idea #4. #11 is my favourite
I think I’m gonna do it 
Thanks man !
I lovd this idea abt skill trading.. nice one ! thinking of trying that one..
Thank you
I have numerous ideas that are better than these. But i dont know how to get them off and running and also i feel that its not safe to tell anyone about these ideas because someone will steal them. If anyone can help please send me and Email and hey maybe we can work together and make millions.
or right back on this blog……
Dan, I think this is a common problem for people who get good ideas. In order to get them off the ground one has to have a certain level of executive-type skill as well. And this is not so common. But here is something to think about – idea thieves are plenty, but the dangerous ones usually don’t get original ideas (and need a constant source to steal from). So the ones to be afraid of are the ones we work with, an immediate boss, for example. If you don’t know how to get your ideas off and running then it will also be difficult for idea thieves who hardly know you. Wow, that was profound. Good luck
Great ideas dude!
Hey Dan,
I’m interested in listening to your ideas and have always wanted to build my own site and start up my own company. Is there an email or something I can contact you with so that we can talk? Let me know.
#10 is doable with some digital projectors and the sides of buildings in the city, and even maybe barns too.
Big possibilities there.
very doable.
I own 6 sites and only have one published now… this may be the idea I was looking for.
I’m on it.
could somebody please clarify to me some of these ideas?
Im guessing that im not the only one that doesn’t get these clearly… So I’ll post my interpretation for each.. And if I’m wrong please email me at yguinor@gmail.com… Or post here.
1. People that are looking for a job put up their resume instead of employers putting wanted ads.
2. Website owners have a forum where they can talk about their site and get community consulting and tips…
3. Users choose an existing topic or create their own, pick a side, and argue in an orderly, controlled manner?
4. This one drove me crazy.. Everyone was mentioning how amazing this would be… But I simply don’t get the idea.. Who is this buttler? Is it someone from the website’s team? (in which case the idea is almost undoable.. Due to lack in manpower and possibly reliability)… Is it some other user? A computer? Help!
6. Swapping skills. You use your special skills/time to do something for
6. someone and they use theirs tohelp you?but still have to pay the site??
5. Sunny clear. People post items for sale.. People online bid in real time… Combination of ebay and a real auction…
7. BArcodes are different in different places… And all the items will need to be added to the database beforehand…
8. Read it later? Take all the week’s interesting reading material and read it on the same place.. Nice and clear..
9. You upload your house… The area.. The rooms etc. And a well calculated database that works on a base of trial and error gives you the house’s estimated price (according to the current market) in a matter of seconds… Seems very tricky and undoable… Kudos to whoever succeeds… It’ll be a real money tree..
10. I seriously don’t get this one…
A site that is somehow linked to all the bilboards around the world and when you upload your ad to the site it automatically sends it to the billboards and you could somehow see a webcam showing you your ad being shown on a billboard on the other half of the world??? Where would one get the authority to control the existing billboards.. Let alone create your own global network of billboards… Maybe I got this wrong… Contact me to clarify!! Please!
11. Buy and sell sites? This is easy to do, quite fun to set up and very profitable… Just the way I like it.
Overall this is an amazingly well thought out list, you thought outside the box, and came up with nice results.. Im gonna attempt a combination of these.. I’ll be sure to send a link when (and if) I’m done..
Thank you!
Ps: sorry for mixing up 5 and 6.. Writing this on an iPhone… No copy-paste…
Oh and I like idea #4 too
Hmmm, I’m already seeing the database tables now! :p
For the concierge service I would do it like this:
1) Portal based where concierges from around the world sign up for free to be notified on incoming concierge requests to which they then bid upon – the lowest bid may not necessarily be the winner, obviously things like location will play a part, time to deliver the goods (e.g. tickets) etc.
2) The end user requiring the goods pays a monthly subscription fee to use the service
2) New users can search and submit concierge requests and have them bidded on by concierges to which they can see the results but to accept a concierges bid they must subscribe to the service, no pay, no use (remove your hand and step away from the cookie jar sir!)
3) The concierge operates as a portal and takes no part in the exchange of goods or payments between both parties. The concierge service is responsible for maintaining the integrity of its users and services not the exchange of goods. That must be handled by the parties involved. In other words, if a bid for something is accepted then the two parties must decide for themselves as to how they want to pay each other and when and how the goods are going to be delivered, not the company.
This last point keeps everything clean and the boundaries clear for the concierge portal provider and its end users.
I’m like this page. I wanna start an online business. “The place to buy and sell websites.” is already done on adstrada.com. I was thinking of something similar a couple of years ago. If I start something similar, what should I do to make it successful? what could I do different?
Cheers,
Jake
Hi Rob,
I could have a use for your work. A good idea. Implementing good websites can be costly & not everyone can do their own.
Will try to mail you via your website.
Hi Rob,
Just tried your site but no password to enter. Any way you can put a contact email address on this site ? Thanks
How can one survive as a student in his country without having anything to join your establisment?
Amanpreet Singh Khurana blog, where you can find the latest and innovative cool web site ideas. These ideas are made to be stolen and uses cutting edge technologies. Please leave your comments/suggestions
This year we must design a website but till now i can not start.
I have now good idea.so please help us.
Your website is really fantastic.It contain many beautiful things.
Thanks,
I love number 10! Has anyone heard of this already?
I know number 9 already exists…
Please add more!! These ideas are truly great. I’m hungry to know if others have ideas that might spark a grab website or blog?
I’ve held this URL adstain.com for several years, I’m just at a loss for how to utilize it. I’ve always thought about advertising/marketing but seem like everyone’s done everything I think to do. Please help! I’d welcome any suggestions. My goal is to create a niche advertising website (possibly using a membership format) for brand driven people who love to shop. Just confused about content.
Everytime i think of an idea i find out it is already taken. Here are some things i came up with, let me know what you think.
-A website like ebay, where instead of auctioning off items, you upload pictures of items you are trying to get rid of, and you find people on the site to trade your stuff with.
-I am thinking about doing #4. I have been to flamedebate.com but i have noticed that it is extremely unorganized and cunfusing and i know i can make a ten times better site.
Hi Vince,
I just wanted to quickly comment about a website idea that is already out there or taken. Even if it is, one can still do it because not all businesses operate the same. Yahoo and Google both are search engines but how they organize themselves and their internal culture, attitude etc is different. This ultimately reflects on the end product or service they provide – i.e the sum total of all its working parts. There are only two factors in business that separate one company from another, price and product or service differences. Adjust any of these two and you will move customers either toward you or away from you, its as simple as that.
Regards,
Rob
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This topic is really interesting. I am going to try any one of the ideas mentioned above. I hope it works out for me.
I like idea #1 and #11. My site is similar to these.
Isn’t this kinda like writing a book on how to get rich and getting rich from all the idiots that buy it?
Joe on September 6th, 2009 12:19 am
Isn’t this kinda like writing a book on how to get rich and getting rich from all the idiots that buy it?
How about the original post? ;D
Great website. I have this one idea that would be a HUGE hit on the internet, I know it. The problem is I don’t know how to build this type of website. It would be a social website where people could login and create a profile like facebook, but the idea is way different than facebook. I will not tell you what the idea is, but I am looking for someone who could build this type of site and manage it. If you are interested we could discuss this further and possibly become partners. Email me if you know how to build social networking sites or know someone that can ccolby8607 at gmail dot com Thanks and look forward to hearing from you.
I have this website but its got nothinke on it. I read this last night and it got me thnking about the achen type sites. I now have an idea that I think i going to work brill. I know HTML, CSS, ete…
BUT I dont know PHP which is a problem……
I’m happy to work with anyone who thinks they have a brilliant idea! But you have to pay me first! Sorry, i need money, cash, mular …
These are some good site ideas. Does anyone here know where to start on the marketing end? I have a site http://www.RegiftingTips.com that I have been trying to get members to join for 1 year now. I have a few people aboard so far. If you have any pointers please contact me through my site. Thanks
There’s already a reverse job board that’s been around for quite some time now at jobrific.com
http://www.jobrific.com
Liked the idea that John came up with so much I decided to give it a go. Was this what you had in mind? Now I need lots of recipes. Not sure about where they will come from….
http://easy-recipes.org.uk
Please feel free to add a recipe if you like !
Hi Dan S.,
I’m really not got my mind to register on http://www.RegiftingTips.com, once I visit there. See the look and color is really important. It should make visitor feel confident to roam around, which can be easily achievable by giving a professional or rich look. Currently the page(s) look / feel is really needs improvement.
You could contact a website designer or take time yourself (Yes, its possible for you) on improving this side.
Great site vicky went and had a look, well done !!!
Hello Dan,
I visited your website http://www.regiftingtips.com/.
If you any design work done or a social networking website which would be great for http://www.regiftingtips.com/, please email me.
joseph@insilica.net
Regards and keep the ideas flowing,
joe
Some great ideas here worth following up and trying to get something up and running. I am a professional application/web developer. Anyone intrested in moving any of these ideas forward please post a reply here, and we can see where it takes us.
Having media shearing websites like moovik.com or link dumping website like muravey.com or mp3/video search engine like zhuzha.net or sites directory like addurl.moovik.com also would be good ideas to monetize the traffic by placing couple of ads on the page.
First off…Pretty clever ideas. Ive talking with my brother about getting into web stuff and we have our thinking caps on as well. We are actually a 2 person web design company right now and would love to get into production. Check out our website and let me know what you think. http://www.envisageimaginationfactory.com
Cheers!
good ideas, but in raw form!!
Excellent ideas. I like the first one the most!
No. 5 is the most popular website in New Zealand trademe.co.nz
buy and sell online auctions.
A young guy started it up 8/9 years ago and sold it to Fairfax Media 3/4 years ago for $700 million -true! you can google it.
The trick is-it is strictly localised to New Zealand -population 4 million – so people trust and minimal chance of getting scammed…and each seller gets a rating when a deal goes through and the product arrives…so people build a reputation.
Now half of New Zealand run little businesses through Trademe…a guy I know gets fishing equipment manufactured in China and sells it on Trademe he now has a database of 2000 customers..because he sells it so much cheaper than the shops.
Trademe now has jobs,cars,houses and everything else on it but started out buy/sell only.
Young guy Sam Morgan kicked it off as a classified ad. site but that didn’t work…then he borrowed some money off his old man and turned it into an auction site …just basically copied EBay but localised it.
Depends where you live …you could try it in your area.
These are some great ideas. I had the bulletin board one awhile back but I think it would be great in your local post office.
Online Debating is such a good idea. Any ideas of places with good scripts?
There is a website called http://flippa.com/ that serves like the last selling website idea.
One more thing … what would be a good idea to do with a domain “www.yourserver.yyy” ?
Thanks
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Always good to see some new and fresh ideas, I have a few of my own myself.
http://www.heyworld.co.uk this is a site i have built that is very much like idea 3, and in my opinion beats heymonkeybrain.
Technicly #1 has already been done, its called freelancing however there are some really good ideas here. Might try and start a debating website as that sounds quite interesting.
Thanks.
online butler and website sales are great ideas
a hell lot of marketing will be required
I have an incredible website idea myself, but looking for a web developer to partner with, anyone interested email me at douglenshaw@yahoo(dot)com
I think all the ideas are stupid. mmmm rather require different variables different demographics. These are just concepts and that is just less than 1 percent of the job to get the idea working. this of development of the website, hosting, how much it will cost, how are you going to market.
grrr – you have everything and the website is online, then what? you will hustle for almost a year to porpulate whatever idea you have chosen. looks easier said than done. If you think one idea is briliant, how many people share you choice, how many would want to participate, how many will be willing to actually participate, how long will they be part of it. Better be carefull with whats out there sometimes. I thing this is a trick to get more people to this website than giving you ideas. really, wake up people. okay I am going to challenge all of you. how about, one of you post a full flanged working proposal of one of these ideas on here and lets debate it. grrrr lol peace I am out
I have to agree with some of the others that a lot of the suggestions have already been done & just use different words to describe what it is they do. However, There are still a few in the list that are not overly saturated yet & might have a chance with a few tweaks done to them to become a success.
I like the Skill trading or Barter system idea the most I think out of everything. Swapping 1 service for another. good potential still there
Number 11. Website sales
I think that http://www.flippa.com is the leader in this market.
I happen to think all those ideas are great and regardless of how saturated they are, an opportunity to get noticed and out perform is always there you just have to find their flaws and capitalize on them. i personally have several business one is new and is actually listed above funny enough. the other two have had a successful growth over the past two years. one is a ski and patio store which i manage, The other is website development. i am rather reasonably priced for the amount of time i put into every detail. if you have any questions or would like your website developed you know where to find me.
I like the website sales idea. http://www.zboltdesigns.com has built something similar to this.
I have an idea for a website:
I think it would be really useful to have somewhere where you can write notes, ;letters, thoughts, ideas to yourself for the future. Many times you think stuff that you want to use in a few years time but often isnt written down and forgotten straight away. If you could have access to a website where you can log in , put your address or your contact details, have a place to type up a letter or notes to yourself, eg : names for your future baby, notes on parenting that you think about in your youth, everyday tips, a person you want to contact in your older years, just anything you know you will forget in a few years but would be really useful to be able to remind yourself of again later. You could set a time so that later you are somehow contacted to remind you about this website where you wrote stuff or to send you your thoughts in a letter. I think it’s a really insightful and potentially helpful idea for a website
There is a website that exists already for doing exactly what you asked for called evernote (www.evernote.com)
Tried to use a strategy – tried to think of something which is really useful & contributive & then try to develop maybe a slightly different angle & also tie in with a burgeoning market. But chickenhead is right, ideas take time to set up & get working, ideas are only the start. The start of mine is at http://www.callconcern.com & I also liked http://www.littlesomething.com as a really nice idea which anyone could use & simple & very easy to do a similar version.
There is a very successful auction website set up here in Greece:
http://www.bidbang.com
Just click on the British Flag for the English translation of the site.
I like all the ideas. I don’t get idea #10. Can anyone clear this one (or any of them) with me? Thanks in advance. My email is altimitos151@gmail.com. Also check my out on facebook and twitter:
facebook.com/dmetz283
twitter.com/dmetz283
How about I have a great, catchy domain that’s brilliant for any of these ideas, but I need partners who can build a decent website around that name. Contact me if you feel like able to build a website.
levon3g @ gmail . com
I love the last idea. There are some sites like http://www.flippa.com and websitebroker.com, but website broker stinks. Flippa is great, but their are many complaints about things (high fees, bad customer support, etc.). I am in the works of creating my own company that runs this site. I already have a script. It will work just like Flippa, but i will charge smaller fees. I think this idea could easily make someone six figures a year if not millions!
I love the last idea. There are some sites like http://www.flippa.com and websitebroker.com, but website broker stinks. Flippa is great, but their are many complaints about things (high fees, bad customer support, etc.). I am in the works of creating my own company that runs this site. I already have a script. It will work just like Flippa, but i will charge smaller fees. I think this idea could easily make someone six figures a year if not millions! Yup
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I love these ideas! Awesome. I have thought of some of them myself, like the trading services site. I like to share my ideas at a website where you can share and see ideas. They do websites, inventions, and businesses, and some other ones too. You should share some ideas there. http://www.biziden.com
Great article! I have been interested in in building a buy and sell website, but don’t know where to start. Do people build it with Wordpress or would I have to resort to complicated programming?
Hey Rian,
Go to http://www.domainauctionsscript.com. They have a script for the buy and sell website site that they are selling for 57$ . They will also install for you. It works great!
Hi, I’m a professionnel programmer. If you need my programming services to implement one of these ideas please email me. My emais address is phpaspnet at hotmail dot com
Hello There,
I honestly dont get “10. Real-Time Public Billboards “. I would like to do ASAP and infact began on the design but please can anyone explain it in details to me? I cannot get anywhere in the world, webcams, control public space? Any feedbacks ASAP would be appreciated before I go live with it.
Thanks
Awny
Not quite sure re. 10, but I think it depends on already being in the type of advertising business which rents out billboard space from large companies & then sells the space(s) to advertisers. The difference is that prospective advertisers can buy their spaces from the w/site, as $million home page, instead of by conventional off-line means. A good concept but I think maybe for established advertising concerns only.
For number 2, I love the idea, but how would you keep from scammers setting an auto thing up to post a random reply and then get tokens (cash) in return. How would you implement the fair rules.
Hey Kelly,
But it would logically impossible. Having billboards all over the world, and then install live web cams on each one just to let the advertiser see his/her ad. This is not just a website that requires millions and millions of dollars to establish, but also you need to do major traveling, sign different contracts with many billboard operators all over the world, commit to them to bring customers, rent places in front of these billboards on people’s roofs, set up cameras, maintain cameras, buy fixed IP addresses in different cities of differnt countries, get internet connection to each web cam, etc.
Am I missing something here or is this what I should be expecting?
Awny
Hi Awny,
Remember I didn’t create no. 10 proposal, I was just trying to be helpful. Without going into all the problems as you have done, I was suggesting that if you are already in this type of advertising business in a big enough way, then it might be possible to develop this idea, but otherwise no. So it’s a no-go to most people anyway – before anyone wastes time/cost on it. To me it seemed a bit far fetched. There must be simpler more practical ideas for people to do.
No Kelly
I didnt imply that it was your fault. All I wanted to know is that if I understood the proposal the same way I did.
Well, I am all ears of new web ideas. Do you have any? Maybe a simple could develop into something big. If so, email me and let’s talk more.
Awny
Hi everybody,
A better approach to the billboard thing would be to do it electronically if at all possible. That way you can update your billboards centrally whilst still maintaining the goal of allowing the end user to discover new opportunities advertising in other countries/cultures etc.
I have almost finished version 1.0 of Pazooza.com (http://www.pazooza.com) an idea I thought up 4 years ago. To give you eager entrepreneurs a heads up about what it takes to build a site like this from scratch …
1) A job! yes thats right i still had my day job to pay my bills and feed me!
In actual fact its taken me 2 months from day 1 of coding until now, but the build up has taken 10 years on and off jobs, a month worth of research here, contract work for 3 months on a client project there, all this adds up and next thing i knew, 10 years had gone by. 4 years ago i was about to release an idea that i thought was going to be a winner, but it wasn’t it was a flop 
it just wasn’t the right timing. The idea was a donation site that people ask for money to support their cause, similar to the plethora of donation sites that have come out since. It would make a great Facebook application today though 
2) Programming skills! If you husband or wife is your partner and they are a programmer, talk code, eat and live code then any idea you conceive of will be a winner – coz you got to love coding or somebody has to love coding. If you don’t have one of these people driving your business, involved etc you will fail. No two ways about this … you are in the software industry after all
3) Finally perseverance, drive, dedication, good friends etc etc, all the touchy feeling things we do to maintain focus on the project
Oh, and talk about it with others, a lot of the design you will see on pazooza.com has come about because of feedback from friends etc.
But I’m happy with version 1.0, please come check it out and tell me what you think, if you like the idea or you think its going to be a flop …
Cheers!
Rob
Founder of Pazooza!
Hi Rob, can’t get site up. Problems ?
Hi Kelly, thanks for reply, may well come back to you on this. Tend to think that simple ideas are more practical.
Hey Rob
I tried accessing your website but requires a code from me. Anyway, can we talk more about this billboard idea (or you might other ideas in mind) in private? My contacts can be found in my website.
Thanks
Awny
Hi Rob,
Checked your site again & no entry. Maybe not the best idea to put it up for views before the site is ready for access….. & this has been four years to get this far ? I don’t know about the “heads up”.
Hi Kelly,
Re. the billboards, I really think you were right the first time, but if you can find a way good luck. I see this, if it has possibilities, as something for a large company. Eg. there are the costs of renting significant billboards from the lease companies, you will very probably need to tender for each & anyway it will go to an established concern. Then you have to sort out these electronic matters – as Rob said – “if at all possible”:- feasibility, cost, electronics companies ? And there’s still the marketing to sell the spaces & you don’t know they’d sell. Billboard type advertising is the province of large companies not just because of cost but also because it is brand awareness advertising as opposed to the types of advertising which are aimed at generating sales directly. The small businesses & individuals at whom this is apparently aimed are not in the brand awareness market – they need their advertising to create sales.
There are small billboards in most city centres anyway eg. near the town hall or visitor centre, which use this concept & each board is divided up for placing multiple ads eg. 30/50/100 per board. These spaces are aimed at small businesses & they are hard to sell as businesses find they do not get much return.
On the 10 ideas listed, most seem complex & difficult for individuals to manage anyway. I think we need the site to ask for another 10 or better 20 which are more doable. Cheers for now.
Re. above meant Hi AWNY not Kelly. Apologies a bit sleepy yet !
thanks rob … its okay … so i guess I am back in the hunting business for a website idea and I do need to get out one real soon and start with it … awny
Hi everybody sorry I have been busy (personal reasons) and had to drop everything all of a sudden. I have removed the access page now and the site is live and available for use. I suggest watching the videos on the home page first to get a feel for how to use the site. Please bare in mind that the site is still new, so if you find any bugs or quikeyness, or wanna suggest improvements or just plain think the idea is then drop me a line.
I need your help to grow my site… i mean obviously I do because its so new. The idea is to bring buyers and sellers of videos together. If you have any ideas or know of anybody that is able to use my tool then please send them a link to Pazooza. They will thankyou im sure!
Website: http://www.Pazooza.com
Twitter: PazoozaTweet (keep up to date with changes)
Facebook: (Coming soon!)
Enjoy!
I have a new idea for a website. How about a website where users can sign up, get 10 points by buying them or answering questions, and with those ten points, they could ask a question. It would be a website where people could ask a question about their website or web business. They could post a snapshot of the site and other questions they may have. They can ask questions on how they should make the site better and get more money etc. People can then answer the questions. Then, the top five, top 2, top1 (depending on number of responses) answers will get to split the points up. So if there are two responses, those two each get two points and I keep 6 points. Points can then be turned into cash, used for more questions, etc. I know this would cost a lot to build, but do you like the idea?
Hi Rob,
Nice site now it’s open. Would like some short text on the front page summarizing the benefits of the site, not just 2 videos. Also makes it look a bit bare. Think you need to beef up the H/Page a bit.
Hi Kelly your absolutely right it does need a homepage. Actually im in the process of integrating facebook (facebook), you know so you can login to facebook navigate to my site and still stay logged in. My second priority is the homepage like you say, i need one! lol – so if anybody can help me with my home page, what you think should go on it I would appreciate your feedback! I was planning on having a featured video item that users pay for, so i can earn revenue through that as well as top video watched, top seller etc.
cheers!
Hi Rob,
The easy bit – I’d use the featured video as a draw-in & free.
Look how many use eg. the free newsletter/download etc. to draw users in so you can then market the pay items to them.
The rest – they say you’ve got about one second to grab viewers’ attention so your H/Page is your big sell page. I think you could do with a large eye-catching hdg. beneath the domain in flowing font & some effective colour eg. orange. This is the 1st. attention grabber.
Following you need a short pitch summarizing first the benefits – what the site does for users & how they benefit from it. Then briefly how it works – in a sentence or two. So in a few seconds they’ve got it without having to watch 2 videos first.
I’d also have some good videos on the H/Page to attract attention – think You Tube & the rest – & gives the page some activity & colour.
If you’d like some help with the text let me know.
Hey this has given me an idea – maybe – for a business. Do readers think there could be enough market for a pay for w/site review site – not Joe’s idea above but to use a reviewer ? There may be lots already but it’s a big web. Your post re. “you need to be a coder” hit on one part of the problem with w/site construction :- the central problem is that generally coders can’t design & write copy that well & designers/copywriters can’t code, you need them both & they’re different mindsets.
Hi Rob,
Really pleased you like the suggestions. I will email you via your site, see you’ve been working on it. & many thanks for the link.
I agree with this concept – I’m always saying w/sites need to move away from the “book to read” concept & back to the simple short ad formula. At least this is true of B2C, B2B is sometimes different.
Hi Kelly,
You tried contacting me through my site however your email address didn’t show up correctly on my end.
Can you please contact me at rob.kara@gmail.com
Thanks!
I need an idea to make web site for a college competition.
What you mean you need an idea? There are plenty on here take your pick …
its all about quality and credibility. A consistency throughout the pages whatever they are promoting. I am experimenting and i think my blog looks pretty cool, here is a link to what can be achieved in just an evening putting together a blog with adds on it, . visit here please http://ibby-weightlosstips.blogspot.com.
Thanks very much ,great ideas