Bank Deals

So a friend and I have a myspace profile we developed for another site with a HUGE number of black friends. So we have been thinking about a site that would target African Americans. Bryce and I started talking about possible sites we could make, and some how we started talking about a freestyle audio battle site. We talked about this for an hour and could only find a forum based/text battle site like the. We thought we were going to be able to make a totally original site, but after about an hour of going over it we finally found a site like it. We drew out how the front page would look, how things would go, etc etc. Anyways, we finally found http://www.letsbeef.com/. It has every last thing we wanted to do.. It seems like every idea we have had lately has been going like this. It is like someone in the future has been coming back in time and jacking us.. check the next paragraph.

Well a little bit later my friend and I were on our way to Shlotsky's and we were talking about websites that could target towards mobile users. We talked about forums, chats, nothing really ground breaking. Then we started talking about streaming radio stations to phones/PDA's and I had the idea to make a windows media player plugin that would stream your OWN music to your mobile device. You could go to our website, create an account, download the software and enter your special number into the plugin that would stream the music to our mobile site, where you could login and access ALL the music on your computer. We were really fucking siked out about this idea. Anyways, 30 minutes later we look online and find that there is a company that is already doing this as of the last year, and their charging $5 a month for the service (mercora.com). I'm really sick of thinking of old ideas, and this is an idea that we really should have known has already been done.

Luckily we discovered an AWESOME niche yesterday that is still virgin. No other sites are in this niche and it is all ours. We have been looking for this niche forever, and hopefully we will produce some good money out of it. We have yet to find a niche like this one, and even with the DAILY up and downs we have when we are brainstorming ideas, this one is going to be awesome and makes it all worthwhile.... The only problem is it is going to take a lot of custom php, and my PHP is very, very, very, very weak. I see Dave and Aaron posting about bad code, they would have heart attacks looking at anything I tried to code in PHP. Anyways, hopefully within the next 2 weeks we can get the ball rolling on this.

The angler’s dating site I posted about before has been on hold the last week, for some reason, but it is not like there was ever a whole lot of work to do on it. We have about half a day of actual work to do before thanksgiving, and another half day of adding some fake profiles. Then, of course, a whole lot of advertising early on Thanksgiving.  

Speaking of a previous niche we had (a site that lists places open late), it looks like we cause a huge bum rush to it. For some reason, Bryce and I were wayyy too broke to even buy another month of hosting so we let the site go so we could work on another project, which I can't remember which one it was but it seems it fell through also. Our site was Aretheyopen.com, and went through about 3 different designs in the 2-3 months it was up. Our last designs listing and things were EXACTLY like iLate.com. Ilate.com has moved in to our niche and is the biggest of the sites that rushed to it, yet they only list 3 US cities. We had listing in about every major US city, and though we planned to put it back up when we had the money, we somehow lost the database :-O. Anyways, it's going to be interesting to see how iLate.com grows, and it's REALLY going to hurt if the owner sells it for a good profit.

Post might be a little confusing, I was pretty buzzed when I originally started writing this late last night.