5 ms·
I think you should build an early beta before you decide to dump the idea. You are jumping the gun, you don't have anything real, just a lot of talk that someon
by kashif 16y ago
I think you should build an early beta before you decide to dump the idea. You are jumping the gun, you don't have anything real, just a lot of talk that someone disagrees with. From my experience, ideas change to become more useful while they are being built.
Also, IMHO, you should not have spent all that money without having some basic implementation.
- hellweaver666 16y agoSo far, I've only spent about £30 which is what it costs to form a limited company in the UK and the cost of a domain. I'm still in the early planning stages and was planning on launching a "coming soon" type page in the next couple of days. The problem with the industry (stock photography) is that I need to attract the photographers first - no point putting a beta site live without any pictures, so my focus was to be on building a streamlined sign up and image submission process that does away with all of the bullshit you have to go through with iStock etc.
- kashif 16y agoThat shouldn't take to long, why don't you just build it and see what you think after you get 20 users.
- hellweaver666 16y agoThat's what I'm thinking at the moment. It won't cost me much to get to that stage and see if the interest is there - if I can get a few contributors in, then I can at least build up the library and basic functionality and launch the main site with minimal cost. If it works, great - I can go from there, if it doesn't it's a bit of a shit, but I haven't wasted a lot of money and can still try out other ideas.