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Not to be a dick, but http://thesmallbusinessweb.com/directory http://thesmallbusinessweb.com/directory already exists.

sunir 17y ago
As one of the motors behind The Small Business Web, thanks for the shout out! I should point out that our directory is a bit different than what the OP probably wants. It's a list of vendors who have signed the Small Business Web manifesto, which has certain requirements associated with it. Of course, if folks here 1. serve small business, 2. with software, 3. that has an open API, 4. provide great customer service, and 5. believe in a free market of software, then you should sign our manifesto and join the Small Business Web. http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com The Small Business Web is the bizdev, marketing, and technical people at these companies who are working together to build the market for small business SaaS. -- Sunir Shah, Chief Handshaker, FreshBooks
webwright 17y ago
I don't know why that's REMOTELY relevant. Nothing pisses me off more than someone saying, "That's already been done" in response to a startup idea. How many search engines came before Google? How many video sites came before YouTube? How many social networks before Facebook? How many mp3 players before the iPod? How many smartphones before the iPhone? I'd say the "no one's done this before" ideas are generally LESS worth doing (and riskier) than the "there are already players in the market" ideas. Unless someone is DOMINATING the market and doing a great job serving their customers, there is always room for more players.
- sachinag 17y ago
  The point wasn't "don't do this"; the point was "why haven't you started here?" Asking for a crowdsourced list of apps strikes me as not having done one's homework.
- synnik 17y ago
  This is a startup weekend, though. I don't know what all the weekends have done, but for the ones that I did pay attention to, they did almost zero due diligence on their idea before starting work. If an idea has been done before, more players are still welcome, of course... But you should know that it has been done before, know what the competitors are, and intelligently design your product based on the existing market. Blindly creating a startup without this knowledge is foolhardy at best.
  - jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
    The initial co-founders and I have had the idea for a while, done the research, and have gotten a fairly large amount of feedback from relevant people/users before yesterday.

sunir 17y ago

As one of the motors behind The Small Business Web, thanks for the shout out! I should point out that our directory is a bit different than what the OP probably wants. It's a list of vendors who have signed the Small Business Web manifesto, which has certain requirements associated with it. Of course, if folks here 1. serve small business, 2. with software, 3. that has an open API, 4. provide great customer service, and 5. believe in a free market of software, then you should sign our manifesto and join the Small Business Web. http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com http://www.thesmallbusinessweb.com The Small Business Web is the bizdev, marketing, and technical people at these companies who are working together to build the market for small business SaaS. -- Sunir Shah, Chief Handshaker, FreshBooks

webwright 17y ago

I don't know why that's REMOTELY relevant. Nothing pisses me off more than someone saying, "That's already been done" in response to a startup idea. How many search engines came before Google? How many video sites came before YouTube? How many social networks before Facebook? How many mp3 players before the iPod? How many smartphones before the iPhone? I'd say the "no one's done this before" ideas are generally LESS worth doing (and riskier) than the "there are already players in the market" ideas. Unless someone is DOMINATING the market and doing a great job serving their customers, there is always room for more players.

sachinag 17y ago
The point wasn't "don't do this"; the point was "why haven't you started here?" Asking for a crowdsourced list of apps strikes me as not having done one's homework.
synnik 17y ago
This is a startup weekend, though. I don't know what all the weekends have done, but for the ones that I did pay attention to, they did almost zero due diligence on their idea before starting work. If an idea has been done before, more players are still welcome, of course... But you should know that it has been done before, know what the competitors are, and intelligently design your product based on the existing market. Blindly creating a startup without this knowledge is foolhardy at best.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
  The initial co-founders and I have had the idea for a while, done the research, and have gotten a fairly large amount of feedback from relevant people/users before yesterday.