Any great idea out there??

In 4 months I'll have completed 30 years in coding. Half life . Now I'm thinking to try my luck combining my experiance in coding with the administrator's job in a portal. I've tried it at 2001 with a dating site and I can say that somehow I've succeedeed it. I had 15.000 members. Getting in account that it was in a short market (Greece), and that on 2001 only very few women dared to post a profile (much more a photo), I think that I was in good position. My site was 13nd among all Greek sites.

What I've in mind now. Not one more commercial script, but also not a unique script to be used only in my site. I must accept the true. My location and language does not helps me to have an international site. But should be good eg to have a script for use it in my country and sell this script to one per country (or State in case of USA) who will operate a clone of my site.

But the main question is: What type of site can be profitable? Just for laugh (even if it's not so bad idea) is to operate a Dating site for ...dogs. Maybe it sounds idiot but you know.... People having animals (at all) love them. The site can be also a special version of some type of well know scripts. eg Have you seen Classifieds for spares. Let's get a real example. There are many sites for Auto Classifieds. Someone wants to sell his old car and posts an Ad for it. But what about if he wants to sell parts of his auto? He must post an Ad for each part. This is what I mean spare classifieds. In one Ad, with one Title and Description to be able to sell more different things. I don't know any other than Autos use of this. Maybe parts of a house fournitutes?

Even if I've developed almost anytype of script, I can say that I'm best in Dating and Travel portals. Dating is almost full even if I have some ideas for some special Adult oriented sites. What about Travel?

Any idea is welcome for discussion and thank you for your partitipation.

Chris

 

Re opening a dating site, recently I saw this:

42 million customers? this tells me that dating sites are BIG business. Why not think about a Greek dating site for humans of course. ( most dogs cannot read)

You could also set up a travel site as a kind of Broker site that receives commissions from travel agents for passing business their way? The Greek islands have some great travel features. You could set up many travel tours with local people involved, say some of the local boat owners for tours around some of the islands. etc.

WHY? The internet does not bother with country boundaries. We operate in fourteen different languages even though I only speak English. YOU decide how international or otherwise your site is, not boundaries.

I do not think so. No one determines how full a certain area is. There are potentially millions of new clients coming on the market all the time. Someone will cater to them, why not you.

If you decide to go with the travel theme then you could maybe get approval from the Greek travel board, http://www.visitgreece.gr/

 

A dating site brings back memories had one long time ago was fun to do, the add income where good paid for the hosting and all other stuff. Never did go trough with it to make a living out of it.

 

It's a chain of around 50 different sites. From time to time I'm using 2 of them (ukrainedate.com and internationalcupid.com).

Pitty to say but most Greeks now, have no money for anything extra than food. Much more money to pay in a Dating site. Our marker is dead. Really dead.

I've already developed such a script which also has online reservations. But I must admit that is very difficult to keep it updated. That's why it didn't worked. Many Travel Agents loved it but none of them has the desire to put a dedicated employee just to update the tours.

I mean that I'm limited by the operational hours. eg if most members are from USA, I must be online during the night according to my local time. That's why I'm trying to build a team. Actually this is the main reason of this post.

Thank you for your time and your helpfull comments.

 

Don't know how many years before was your attempt, but mine was 12 years. At that time (especially in Greece) was impossible to have profits. Now is much better, but there are so many sites already in market. I believe that only if you can offer something different you'll get real profits. If I had to start a dating site now, I had to choose between 2 special sites:

1. For Adults but with some special features included. eg Ability to post Escorts profiles among the amateous profiles. My experiance as webmaster on this says that most (men) members when they can't find a normal member to date, have no problem to date an escort. ....or... Agents who will posts many profiles etc.
2. Travelmates. Do you know what's the problem with singles who want to travel alone? That they must pay (at least) +25% for singleroom. With a dating site like this, users can search to find other users who want to visit (eg) Thailand on a specific timeframe and share a double room.

 

Well if i could write software i would make something that could do all 3, the two you say and a normal dating site. The problem with normal dating sites here in my country there to expensive the cost are around 25 euro a month or 80 euro a year.

But at the moment you are right the market is to crowded to start in this niche.

 

As you say the Greek currency is not too good these days. You can turn this to your advantage. One of the things that countries that are short of money are very interested in is tourism. Mainly because for little outlay a lot of money can come into the country.
This opens up a big opportunity to get the official travel boards to work with you, I would think they would bend over backwards to help with any program that can bring more tourists to Greece.

You can ask what things they would like and then see if you can come up with a viable plan that can be beneficial to you both.

I would imagine they are seriously looking for opportunities to increase the number of tourists.
To this end it is nothing for them to spend a little money (for them) to get things moving.

Many of the officials in most of these organizations are currently looking over their shoulders, in case their jobs are the next to go. A good workable plan should be received with open arms.

Yes just as was thought, the opportunities are wide open: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=...p&source=hp&gfe_rd=cr&ei=cMaRUs7dLejC8genwIAo

 

I'm actually surprised at the number of real ideas floated here. Most places you would (rightfully so) be told to come up with your own ideas.