As promised I am writing here most new business ideas I get. Jude and I spent quite a while talking yesterday about business ideas, nothing matches the energy I have from discussing a new idea. I like these two the most:
Personal Social Networks
Basically this is a problem I have and I wish there was a good solution to it. I have more than a hundred business cards and various friends, networks and business contacts which all have different status, notes, actions required etc. I want to be able to put that all in one place, obviously facebook/linkedin help but that requires the other person to be on one of those and it doesn't allow me to associate much information to them. Basic features I require:
- Makes notes next to each person
- Associate with linkedin/facebook/skype/myspace profiles
- Associate actions that I need to perform with each person. I.e. birthday, meetings to arrange etc.
- Scan in their business cards, so I can reduce my collection.
- Share my groups or contacts with other people for personal or business reasons.
- Pull in contacts from some format
- Output them to excel or some other suitable service.
- Synch with calender
I haven't researched this, does it already exist?
Music Writing Web Application
I have only ever seen these being used by other people so I am probably not the best person to ever make a business out of it, but i am pretty sure there are no advanced music writing web application out there and I was told Flash apps that exist are popular but basic.
If the web app is any good it would do well because these things sell for a lot of money. There are various obvious social elements that you can add on to enable people to share what they create and use other peoples samples/creations. I am not going to go through the features, basically you would just pick the most popular features from existing desktop applications (I don't even know the most popular ones, Fruityloops is one I think).
Again not researched so it might already exist.
It's always fun when I think of an idea and research it to find it already exists. I like the personal social network one a lot, its just so obvious and useful.
There are so many ideas out there that a) its stupid to copy someone elses, b) there is no point in fearing you will be copied, c) You can't tell me that you are waiting for some great idea to strike you down before you do business d) and lastly you can't say that you can't come up with ideas because I will give you some for free ;-).
I will be away for a couple of weeks, so I wish you a happy Easter!
3 comments:
Hey Immad - re: your first idea, it sounds a bit like CRM tools used in the enterprise. We've just started using Highrise from 37 signals for managing contacts at ClickUni - it's a simple start towards doing some of these things (page for each person, make notes, record email convos with them, set followups for them etc..) More integration of the things you describe to tailor it to personal needs would make it even better for managing your personal "network".
Hi Andy,
Kind off annoying having multiple places where people can comment on the blog. Sumon mentioned Highrise as well as Jigsaw. Not sure it would be enough of a practical gain to take it further and compete with Highrise, except you could possibly undercut there price and provide more features but not sure how big that market is...
Here was my reply:
highrise does pretty much cover most of that spec, it doesnt do everything but I would have to check out its limitations properly. I dont really envisage this as just a contact management tool I want something more visual and powerful, where I can literally map out groups of friends/contacts there status etc.. but what highrise does cover is most of the practical aspect.
Maybe next time I will do a little research, but at least I came up with it myself!
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