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- Beeswax
I have all these ideas coming to my mind or from other people. I usually don't have enough time, resources or enthusiasm. Maybe this thread triggers someone for executing these leftover ideas.
Idea 1: Condolence Site
Everybody dies one day. So the relative or the friend of the deceased can start this online board to pass the sad news and accept condolences. It might have a recurring reminder at every anniversary.
I'm not sure how to commercialize this site. Advertising seems like the easiest way but what kind of advertising can be published or would it make it annoying to see stupid ads on a site like this?So this is one idea. Maybe it turns into a big business with some feedback and someone decides to handle it.
Any other ideas?
- animatedgif0
If someone commemorated my death using a web application I'd regret not giving them a punch in the cock while I was still here.
People already use facebook for this shit anyway.
- Facebook is the wrong place. I'm sure some people can't help but 'like' the posts.Beeswax
- animatedgif0
actually a better idea is a twitter enabled webcam casket so my followers can keep up on my decomposition and retweet it to their friends
- you'd get a lot of followers.Beeswax
- HA HApopfodders
- well I don't even have a Twitter account so it can only get betteranimatedgif
- nb0
I think this already exists.
- aanderton0
so what like facebook for the dead??
- popfodders0
You'd never make money off of advertising without tons and tons of traffic (AdSense example, very few sites actually make tons off of that type of thing).
Am I being a bit generic, probably, but unless your business model is subscription or pay-as-you-go (in your case, maybe a one time fee) based, I don't think you're going to make a lot of money. And, it's difficult to get start-up cash with an advertising model in place. That's a given, especially in this shit global economy. 15 years ago, maybe this could get some start-up money.
- 23kon0
Good models to look at for making money from sites are dating sites.
Most give you the basic functionality for free so you can search for people who you think would match you.
Some, at this point, then charge you to get in touch with these people.
Others continue to offer a completely free service but little 'perk' features like being able to see if the person you've sent a message to has actually read that message.The thing is, these sites are utter pish! pish design, pish usability yet they are generating a LOT of money for the creators.
Take a look at how pish Zoosk and Oasis are. SERIOUSLY bad yet they've got budget to advertise on prime-time tv.--------
Back to the topic of Startup Ideas though, I had an idea a couple of years ago that I thought was genius but was put on the back-burner because I (and others) left the company we were at and started our own thing so been concentrating on that.
But recently we've revisited the idea, analysed it and are battering on with it with the view to launch in the next couple of months :)
- raf0
Idea 1: Condolence Site
This has been done to death.
- 23kon0
(in reply to popfodders comment to my comment)
Nah, I wasnt saying sex sells, it's people willing to pay for more features.
Especially if that feature is something that satisfies curiosity in someone e.g I wonder if that girl has actually read that message I sent her. Paying for the extra features would tell you.On some of the dating sites you pay for it as a feature as a whole. On some it costs you a few pence/cents to find out if a single message has been read/deleted.
Their little ways to wangle money out of people looking for a bf/gf are genius.
Mind you, going back to the start of this message, I guess it is 'sex sells' as the main goal in the end is to find someone for sex haha.
Perhaps with your DeathBook website you can think of a way to integrate extra features which people could either pay for before they die which would benefit their friends/family when using the site after they die. Or do something that charges the friends/families after that person is dead if they want to use the site.
I dont think the latter is the way to go.
Perhaps your site is something that people should think about before they die, like life insurance etc. So maybe they pay a small fee to have the services of your site when they die. Maybe some of that fee is profit and some goes towards adding info about your site onto their will so that when they do die, their relatives will find out about the site?
- Beeswax0
Good points 23kon.
Now I'm thinking, the site might help someone to generate something that can be left to their relatives and friends. It doesn't have to be some cash necessarily but other things...
In case of cash, I would want some charity to withdraw certain amounts from my account, monthly or yearly, until those funds drain.
It should be something that I can collect in that site.
- Centigrade0
Monotenize it by selling a book of thoughts / with photos or something. Memorial wallet photos etc. Like apple does for photobooks / calendars from iPhoto. Thats how you'd make money with this project.
- mtgentry0
sry dude, a couple of Weiden & Kennedy guys are already doing it: http://1000memories.com/
- toodee0
Have you seen that shitty film PS I Love You? The man dies but leaves his wife loads of notes that she finds after he dies. You could do a service like that though email?