Website idea 18: How-Did-You-Meet.com - True stories about meeting a partner

Of all the ideas I have posted here I personally like this one most: a site that allows people to share their stories about finding a "significant one".

On Google, query "where did you meet your" returns 871 000 results. Query "how did you meet your" returns 1 710 000 results. Most of those pages seems to be discussion about where people have find their girlfriends / boyfriends / wifes / husbands / one night stands. Some of the discussion threads I checked out were HUGE and also very entertaining. So there seems to be a great deal of willingness to share and read this kind of stories. But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find a site dedicated to this subject. A site that would collect all those stories together, give user an ability to rate and comment stories and read stories by popularity or type (types could be for example: "result was a marriage", "result was a relationship", "result was a short romance" or "result was a failure").

That's right, you can also allow people to write about true life failed pick up attempts. I'm sure there will be a lot of hilarous ones when you have enough make a list called "20 worst pick up attempts EVER". This is the kind of content that easily caughts an attention of a casual surfer when they arrive on your site. To make things even better, people using Digg or other social bookmarking service are in love with that kind of short, entertaining lists. See? When they arrive en masse, a good portion of them will check out other pages too and maybe even come back later.

To get started, you can write to some popular wedding or relationship discussion board and ask people to tell how they met their partner. Also provide a link to your site and ask a permission to add their answers there (it might be a good idea to talk with a moderator beforehand). Do this on several forums and also trade links with dating sevices etc. This way you will get both stories and visitors. Soon your site will gain enough momentum so that people will start to write their stories directly on your site.

One of the sweetest things of this site is you can fill it with dating- and wedding-related ads which usually have high value.

Some resources you might find useful:
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Website idea 13: Build a discussion board about eco-cars

The era of traditionally powered cars are soon inevitably over, as amount of crude oil decreases and amount of pollution increases. One doesn't need a crystal ball to foretell it won't take too many years before majority of new cars are so called eco-cars - hybrid, electric, natural gas, alcohol-powered, you name it . Web developers are already reacting to this new situation - but there is still enough time for you to take advantage of it.

My advice is: set up a discussion board for eco-cars while the competition is still relatively low. You just need to carefully decide the scope of your board. Is it about all the cars that are using some alternative power source? Or only hybrids? Or cars that simply have an electric motor? Or maybe still even more specific topic, like battery technology and mainteinance? You also have to consider whether you make your board in English or some other language. Remember that even thought more rare languages are not spoken by very many people, the amount of a competition is also lower.

The incomes naturally comes from the ads on your site. I assume car-related keywords are relatively valuable.

In the beginning don't make too many different discussion categories, otherwise the few initial users will be scattered around and can't communicate with each other. There are plenty of good forums softwares to choose from, such as Invision Board, vBulletin and phpBB, all easy to use and PHP / MySQL -compatible. You won't probably need dedicated hosting at least initially as most of the traffic are just plain HTML pages that doesn't rob so much bandwidth.

It might be good idea to add also a news section where you collect a hottest news concerning this topic. And also a link section where you can collect the sites of car dealers, repair shops, information sites, news sources and part suppliers.

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.