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.

Website idea 9: Neighborhood rating service

People often have only a vague idea about different neighborhoods. This is bad especially if you are about to find a new apartment but not exactly sure where. You don’t know beforehand if a certain neighborhood has a high or low crime rate, if there is a good or inadequate public transport, if there is a department store or some other service you constantly need.

There seems to be only few sites that allow visitors to rate and comment neighborhoods, and even those are not very well made. So why don’t you build one, especially as there is so much room for this kind of service. Even the smallest countries and states should have a demand for at least one such site.

Each neighborhood would have a page containing rating and comment section, small overview of a neighborhood (this can be taken directly from Wikipedia), pictures, links, map, local announcement & news section and local discussion board. Also there would be a services section, where users and entrepreneurs could add nearby stores and services with contact information.

This might be a grand scale project but you can start with your own city only. When the popularity of the site grows you can accept other cities as well.

It’s especially neat Google Adsense can direct the ads to a certain area/city because it increases your income.

Website idea 8: Photos of toddlers dressed as cute animals blog

OK, I promised to write about niches that young male geeks seldom take advantage, and therefore have less competition. Here is one: an overly cute blog where people can send photos of their babies dressed as animals. Although this excessively sugared idea almost makes me puke, never forget what we learned from Lolcats: you can make a HUGE amount of money with cute site. Does it really matter if you have to "pray to the porcelain god" a couple of times?

As far as I can see, there isn't a site / blog like the one I just described - at least I couldn't find one. To make this one really successful, I suggest you would make adding the images as easy as possible. Let a PHP resize the pictures, adoring mothers doesn't necessarily know how to do it. It would be also a good idea to write a script that enables people to drag and drop speech balloons over the picture they just uploaded.

The ads could / should be similar than ones on Lolcats. Maybe not the most valuable ones on Internet, but not bad either.