Mike and I have had many discussions as how to harness web 2.0 concepts and develop various 'big' ideas for clients or ourselves to make money from. One such idea was a for a social network of people who wanted jobs done but didn't know how, didn't have the time or who just couldn't be bothered. Such a brilliant idea, we thought. Coming at a time when several of our projects are coming along nicely this was put on the back burner as a slightly weaker idea than the others currently we're developing.
Then I found a link to a site already doing it. 'Balls', I thought. As is so often the case with big online ideas, one tends to get swallowed up in such complete self belief that the discovery that someone beat you to it can be demoralising. Anyway in this instance the website which 'beat us to it' happens to be currently offering precisely zero jobs for its audience. It claims to have made a few thousand pounds for job doers although I suspect that was the founders' friends and family pitching in for the good of the idea. Its owner is Will King who founded 'King of Shaves' and presumably doesn't need the money but it proves that even if a great idea gets off the ground there's still every chance it'll fail if there wasn't much call for it in the real, offline world in the first place. Back to drawing board for now then.
Check out the site here
http://www.jodo.biz/
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