Website ideas?

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Everybody post your million dollar ideas here!

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Oh gosh... By all means, everyone please keep your million dollar ideas yourself.

I'm just trying to have some fun and build something for the people here that are interested that we can all play a part in.

Like I said, I typically deploy open-source software or buy scripts then modify them to fit what everyone wants rather than just write something from scratch, so if you have a million dollar idea, you're gonna have to build that yourself.

Some things I have done in the past that might help spark some ideas..

Several forums... From underground southern rap music from the 1990s to sports. These are my favorite types of sites to run because it involves other people and building a community and allows me to modify/customize based on what the site is about and what people want.

A network of team sites that crawled/scraped sites like Rivals, 247, etc via RSS and posted the content automatically. It posted to the blog and then to the team forum. These network of sites were created in an attempt to monetize from advertising without having to do any work after the initial build. Basically a self-sustaining network of scraped content.

Youtube to MP3 site that was basically a clone of YouTube but with options to Download.. Add to Playlist and Download Playlist, etc. It played the media rather than snatching it so it used their bandwidth and CPU rather than my servers. This was initially created for my dad so he would stop bugging me to fill up his mp3 player every week

Website Uptime Monitor that would allow you to add as many sites as you wanted and receive text or email alerts when the site crashed. This one was created to be the only free uptime monitor with unlimited sites and free text alerts.

I was thinking of deploying a reddit clone but not really sure what I would do with it.

Thanks for the tip, but I'm planning on making it a free service with paid premium features. Also I'm not sure how useful it would be to a wide audience as it's probably lacking some features most would need. It's currently kind of tuned to be as simple as possible to use, because my target audience is blue collar job shop workers.

I have implemented a lot of the basics plus some features that I *think* are unique. For example, it allows multiple users per company account, and I have an option to restrict a user account to only being able to use the time clock function. This way a company can set up a tablet to replace a punch clock, where any employee can walk up and clock in/out. And for users that do have their own personal accounts, you can restrict their usage by IP address (so they must actually be at work on wifi in order to clock in ). That's not a unique feature, but I've got it.

I have somewhat robust task breakdown features, so a job can be broken down into tasks that might depend on other tasks, or material availability, etc. Individual tasks can be assigned to an employee (or a group of employees), or they can just clock in on the job's parent task. Tasks can have an estimated range of hours of effort required for quoting purposes. I have basic invoicing and payroll support, though I have yet to integrate with Quickbooks/etc.


When I got into it, I didn't realize just how many details go into something like this. When every major feature integrates with the rest, the work to add something new gets to be exponential rather than linear. Plus I kind of intentionally made it as difficult as possible on myself, so that I would learn as much as I could. I learned a lot of javascript/typescript, Angular, golang. It was also my first attempt at a client-server style app, with an API back end and javascript frontend. Also I'm running it on AWS, so I had some learning to do there.

It's been fun to say the least.

Here’s one for you that I’d like to develop one day but sounds like you could make it happen sooner.

Big picture: An app that would monitor prices of items online and run like stock exchange.

Details: You have a purchase you are looking to make soon but you want to be sure to get the best deal but can’t constantly monitor prices. You use the app to put a buy price in and select what sites you are comfortable with to do business. The money for the purchase gets held in an account for whatever time frame is desired to look for the deal. Deal pops up the app would purchase and input the users info and charge a processing fee. Anyone interested?