Well first off I want to explain this concept. It is pretty simple to get, but why not make it even easier. I am going to write a a post every week about things that bother me about the web. Hopefully it will lead to ideas on how to improve your own web creations . Simple enough, right? Okay, here we go.
I guess the best way to start this up is with the BIGGEST thing that bothers me. Like most of you, I have aspirations of making it big on the net so that I can have a great income while doing the least amount of work possible to have that money. I am an idea type of person and I constantly stay up at night thinking of different website concepts or ways to improve what I already have. All this work and all these failed ideas has frustrated me to no end. I accept the fact that it’s tough to make it big with an idea, BUT when I see the likes of FormSpring.Me and Twitter.com I just wanna quit. I mean how did I not think of FormSpring? Possibly because its a website based on the most simple idea done in the most inappropriate way imaginable. Nevermind the fact that all you do is ask questions and thats the whole concept, but the fact that you can be anonymous is totally crazy. You get these teen girls hammered by teen/perverted boys with inappropriate and rude questions. As if their self confidence isn’t low enough, why would u need to make a site where a person can ask why they are so ugly and never be able to know who sent it. Either way you slice it. Its a dumb idea that made someone rich and I am sitting here thinking of complex ideas that will never bee seen by anymore than a few thousand people.
Lesson Learned: Dumb Down! People are simple and sometimes the most simple ideas are the most successful. You are smart and sometimes you are just a little smarter than people visiting your site. Make it easy and get your point across simply. Also don’t think something is a dumb idea before you research it. I wouldn’t have thought in a million years that a site like FormSpring wasn’t already a popular idea. So, get an idea and go through with it. If it exists then improve on it and give it your own twist. Create your own stupid idea and make yourself a bunch of money.
