>> You don't need a business plan , but you need to know how you will make money. Agreed. >> >You NEED a market analysis : you don't even need to spend money

>> You don't need a business plan , but you need to know how you will make money. Agreed. >> >You NEED a market analysis : you don't even need to spend money for this. Just do yourself a favor, make some research and set a clear target audience. I have done some research but I don't have concrete numbers. See my other post about general lack of exposure and trust in buying/selling online in Asian subcontinent. > >you NEED a real IDEA , not an idea that will change every week, you can change how you plan to make money, but your idea can't keep changing every week, to see what will click, nothing will click in some weeks, you may need a lot of luck for that. I should have worded myself better. My base idea is the same. The differentiators might change(I think will change) with time. How I plan to make money is more or less going to be simply charging users to create online stores for me. At least, that's how I see it as of now. > Ask yourself, why will peoples want to use your product and not shopify, or whatever other service? I have some differentiators planned. And I am willing to compete on price for the same level of service. Creating the same level of service is easier said than done, but that's what I am attempting. > you should defend your idea, you should tell uss why it's more than an idea, ever heard the saying: ideas are worth nothing!? Circular reasoning? Ideas are worth nothing and I should defend my idea? I belong to the "ideas mean nothing" camp. And yes, right now it's just an idea. It would evolve to more than an idea when I have built it. > keep in mind many peoples on HN have been there, and they give advices to help you, at least most of us. > Your SEO approach gives me some very big concern, so I suggest you head over to gabriel weinberg blog: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/ http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/ and watch some of the interviews, I lost you here. The only thing I mentioned about SEO was it's easier to optimize it when there aren't many hits already coming for it. Take for example Google's Go or the io language. It's extremely hard to optimize searches for queries related to them. EDIT: I think I misunderstood you here. Your point probably was to optimize it for related terms. Like if someone searches for "online store", shopyist.com should feature among the top results. I have some plans for it. I am quite comfortable working on it myself. I would rope in SEO guy if my approach proves to be futile. I have read gabriel's blog. I am checking patio11 entries. Thanks for pointing. I realize that. Why else would I post on HN? I am prepared for the negative criticism coming my way. I would pay attention to some and ignore the rest. If all I wanted was to do what someone else told me, I would have kept my job:-)