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Looking forward to seeing the pet food review site. It's definitely an unserved niche.

by Lewisham 16y ago

joshu 16y ago
I think the hard part is going to be getting the pets to contribute the reviews. Perhaps an iPad app for dogs?
- rdl 16y ago
  I think you have it all wrong. Food for pets has been done too many times, there is no opportunity there. The market is in food MADE OF pets, or perhaps home conversion kits to turn pets into food. Basically, a modified flobee. (Although I actually think open source UAV tools, especially for commercial use like monitoring farm fields, traffic, etc., would be a good opportunity.)
- thwarted 16y ago
  I immediately thought of Know-Nothing Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog from THHGTTG. http://tinyurl.com/33n6wy6 http://tinyurl.com/33n6wy6 (Wikipedia page, URL too long and HN truncates it so it doesn't work)
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- icey 16y ago
  This can only end one way: http://i.imgur.com/62kbb.jpg http://i.imgur.com/62kbb.jpg
- jasonlbaptiste 16y ago
  If you have the gaming mechanics down right, I'm pretty sure the dogs will submit reviews. You could also throw parties like Yelp! did for the "top dogs". You should probably trademark that term right now- top dogs. An iPad app might make sense too, but why not just do it HTML5 based? Gartner did a random report a few weeks ago that showed a magic quadrant where dogs use the browser more than native apps.
muhfuhkuh 16y ago
Add in a couple amazon and pets.com affiliate links for monetization, run two super-bowl commercials complete with slightly-used sock puppet, and why not, throw in a clickbank e-book on how to test dog food before your dog eats it that was dictated (not read) by a young girl from Guinea Bissau who has never learned to read and has never even seen a dog let alone bought food for it. Run it all through an A/B tester and host via ec2 + mongrel2 + HOC (haskell-to-objective-c binding). Spokesperson: Olivia Munn. The venture capital world would implode on itself from the awesome.

Looking forward to seeing the pet food review site. It's definitely an unserved niche.

joshu 16y ago

I think the hard part is going to be getting the pets to contribute the reviews. Perhaps an iPad app for dogs?

rdl 16y ago
I think you have it all wrong. Food for pets has been done too many times, there is no opportunity there. The market is in food MADE OF pets, or perhaps home conversion kits to turn pets into food. Basically, a modified flobee. (Although I actually think open source UAV tools, especially for commercial use like monitoring farm fields, traffic, etc., would be a good opportunity.)
thwarted 16y ago
I immediately thought of Know-Nothing Bozo the Non-Wonder Dog from THHGTTG. http://tinyurl.com/33n6wy6 http://tinyurl.com/33n6wy6 (Wikipedia page, URL too long and HN truncates it so it doesn't work)
- deleted 16y ago
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icey 16y ago
This can only end one way: http://i.imgur.com/62kbb.jpg http://i.imgur.com/62kbb.jpg
jasonlbaptiste 16y ago
If you have the gaming mechanics down right, I'm pretty sure the dogs will submit reviews. You could also throw parties like Yelp! did for the "top dogs". You should probably trademark that term right now- top dogs. An iPad app might make sense too, but why not just do it HTML5 based? Gartner did a random report a few weeks ago that showed a magic quadrant where dogs use the browser more than native apps.

muhfuhkuh 16y ago

Add in a couple amazon and pets.com affiliate links for monetization, run two super-bowl commercials complete with slightly-used sock puppet, and why not, throw in a clickbank e-book on how to test dog food before your dog eats it that was dictated (not read) by a young girl from Guinea Bissau who has never learned to read and has never even seen a dog let alone bought food for it. Run it all through an A/B tester and host via ec2 + mongrel2 + HOC (haskell-to-objective-c binding). Spokesperson: Olivia Munn. The venture capital world would implode on itself from the awesome.