Startup Fever
Why? Well, have I told you that I’m quite amazed on how many me-too startup has been created each day. How many widget site do you know? How may YouTube like service do you know? Don’t count mashup services yet. It’s _A_LOT. Do you have any idea how they live? Yes, they live benefiting from user generated content. So, If I were to make another YouTube clone then I’ll be rich rite?? Wrong! If only you can take YouTube userbase then you’ll be rich. Other don’t take such head-to-head path. Some people choose riding the wave. Take example on the widget service on MySpace. No, we don’t need to work so damn hard to create a userbase. Just ride onto MySpace, provide a cool pimp-my-page service and there you go. Well, I over simplify it. Are we done yet? Noooo. There’s still one alternative to be the next millionaire. Serve niche. Niche? Yes. Do you know that japanese has their own myspace-like service? Niche here can be interpreted as narrow segment. It can be specialized language, specialized age, specialized hobby, specialized local. Now, speaking about local. I really think that gudangupload.com (I knew it from idban) can be a successful storage service clone. If only it can promote local stuff. Faster upload and download for local people. Doesn’t need to aim worldwide market. Local people numbers can’t be represented with few digits. It’s a big niche.
Now, who want to start local S3. So that we can sparks even more startups.
*setengah hati*
). Dang, I want a low fat customizable scaffolder with extra sugar on automated customizable UI. WTF, I thought I was looking for a low fat stuff.
Herman Saksono 12:14 pm on 12/14/2006 Permalink
Hmmm… this reminds of the dot net era. Except that this one doesnt need much of a capital.
But, nevertheless, the bubble will eventually bursts.