Ideas – Bringing Them To Life On The Internet
Do you ever get an idea and get excited about it but just cant seem to figure out how to implement it? Maybe it isn’t that you can’t figure out how to make it work, you just don’t have the skill set or resouces to make it happen. I have found myself in this situation a couple times in the past and let a great opportunity pass me by.
The first time was back in June of 2000. I purchased the domain name PanAmerican-Translations.com and set about setting up a system to duplication English websites in Spanish. In this instance I worked with a local native speaking Spanish language school teacher to duplicate a Houston based industrial website. It worked great. It took us about 3 weeks to duplicate the site and it was identical in every way except the language. At that time it wasn’t hard to get up the search engines and we were near the top of AltaVista which was the top search engine of the time. We received calls from Blue Cross & Blue Shield of PA for a site translation and a little known site at the time called Overstock.com. We scrambled to find help and resources who could see the potential, but here in rural Kentucky in 2000, the Internet was still not well known. Well needless to say we missed those two opportunities. We did approach a local businessman about an investment of 50K to get us started and he was ready to help us when at the last minute he was told by a fellow businessman that this “Internet thing” was never going to take off. uuggghhhh… We tried for several more months but could not garner the resources we needed to make this work. I wish I knew then what I know now. Now that is a saturated market.
I had several other ideas over the past couple of years that I could not get off the grown for technical reasons. Basically I did not have the knowledge to write the programs needed to make then work. One idea was to build a website with secure access that would allow parents to log into a network of daycare facilities at any time to check on their children via webcam. We would place webcam’s in daycare’s and then provide parents with login credentials to be able to access that particular daycare and view their kids and chat with the people working there. There were serveral other ideas over the years that never came to fruition.
Now I find myself in a similar situation. I have an idea but don’t have the technical expertise to make it happen. But I have also figured out what my major problem is. I had a fear of revealing my idea to someone that might be able to write the program. I thought they would take the idea and run and leaving me hanging. So I guess the problem I have is not so much technical but one of trust.
I have an idea for a Twitter based site that I believe would do really well and am looking for a programmer that would like to take a chance on an idea with me. It is a rather simple concept that requires users to be able to log in and manipulate their data and make parts of it visible to others. So, if there are any programmers out there who are into social networking and looking for a new project, send me an email at info@logodesign77.com. Who knows………we may have a dud, but then again we may have the next great idea.
