Saturday, January 31, 2009

Website idea 16: Gaming site for disabled people

Games for disabled people: did you know there exists such a sub-genre of gaming? When you think of it, isn't it natural that people with visual or hearing impairment, people with motorical problems or people suffering from mild brain damage want to enjoy gaming too.More importantly, gaming can be used very efficiently in rehabilitation of such conditions. Here is one example. I could also link some scientific articles that came to the same conclusion, but as they are only in Finnish they wouldn't be very useful here.The problem is that games designed for this genre are very hard to find. I tried once but failed miserably. With a great effort I managed to found some games scattered around the Internet, but for what I have read there must be a plenty of more, but very poorly marketed. Maybe majority of them are even made as custom-made products that are used only by the organisation that ordered it (what a waste).

So why don't you make an improvement: a portal that lists, reviews and sells such games. There could also be a discussion forum and a news section. That kind of site, with millions of potential users worldwide, would help developers to come to the public with their creations and encourage others to make such games. The site, of course, should be as accessible as possible.In addition to "getting some karma" by helping others to enjoy their life you could cash for the time you have spent by charging a little for every commercial game that is listed to your site, or sold through it.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Website idea 11: Make a free online job application form for companies

It is very common practise for all kind of companies to have an online job application form on their website. Have you noticed these forms are usually "carbon copies" of each other: they always ask your contact info, work experience, computer skills, education and so on. Therefore we can draw two conclusions: companies are wasting time by always making these forms by themselves as they could use one free universal job form provided by you. And job seekers are wasting time by filling forms one after another, even though they could fill this universal job form once and then use it with several job applications.
Is there already a such services available? At least I couldn't find one and I consider my search engine skills pretty solid.

This might be a service with a potential to grow really big. First look for a companies that don't already have online application form. Contact them and offer the form for free. If they want it, provide them with a piece of code that will insert the form to their site (iframe based or PHP / other programming language). You can make money with extra service that allows them to modify the form, or with ads. Later you can add auxiliary services, such as online psychological evaluations that are so often used by employers and head-hunter agencies nowadays.

When there are enough of these forms online, the job seekers are also starting to get advantage as they could register to service and use once submitted data all over again. I know from experience that filling application forms is really a pain in the ass. This by the way means you will eventually have a huge database of talented job seekers.

If you do everything right you could become a millionare with this. Even if things don't go that well you can still earn handsome amount of money. I have a hunch this could be a service that attracts venture capitalists too.

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