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First impression: good idea because I haven't heard of something like that before. After thinking about it: Good idea but won't create a big successful busine
by waleedka 20y ago
First impression: good idea because I haven't heard of something like that before.
After thinking about it: Good idea but won't create a big successful business for the same reason above. There are already several web sites that does that (search on Google like madanella suggested), and the fact that they are not well known is an indication that it's not a popular concept.
Having said that, you can still take something and make it successful if you manage to figure out the perfect combination of features and marketing ideas. Successful companies do that all the time, they take existing ideas that don't have much traction and make them better. Google didn't invent search, Apple didn't invent MP3 players, and Microsoft didn't invent operating systems.
A point to consider as well is that it's probably not appropriate to put ads on a memorial page. Some people will be sensitive to it. In that case, how would you recover the cost of hosting pages for very long periods of time?
- jkush 20y agoI think the reason why they aren't popular is because they suck. The don't let you do the one thing that you'd really want to do when creating a memorial. They don't let you collaborate. If I was creating a memorial for someone I would want to solicit stories and memories from the person's friends and pull them together to form a story.
- vlad 20y agoFirst of all, 20 year olds are the last focus group for such a thing so it doesn't matter if you've never heard of it. That there are competitors shows there's something there. Thirdly, he's not trying to clone an existing service, he's trying to create a new one that makes sense to him from the ground up.
- jkush 20y agoWhat I love most about the competitors I've found on Google, is that they are all just so very, very bad.