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August 23, 2004
Tapping Into Red Hot Product Ideas
Finding ideas for products is EASY - but...
Locating ideas with BUILT IN DEMAND is another story entirely.
Consider online sites that "tell you" exactly what people are looking
for.
For example, freelance project sites like
http://www.scriptlance.com give you an entire list of
projects you can scan, pick out patterns and generate some terrific
product ideas.
More than a few of the projects have taken existing
scripts or software applications - linked to them and
asked for programmers to bid on small changes to similar software
that would give them market differentiation.
Even more interesting is that many of the bids come in under
$500!
With some creativity - you could easily find popular programs,
enhance them and place them up for bidding on a similar site.
No need to limit this technique to programming sites, there are
also freelance sites for writing, consulting, services, and many
other categories.
Jeff
Posted by jbsmith at August 23, 2004 09:32 AM
Comments
Hi Jeff,
I've recently realised what a great source of ideas Scriptlance etc are, and I've written an application to provide an RSS feed of their updates, ready for your RSS reader software.
I also found a few more sources of similar ideas, which I've written about here:
http://www.ideaboost.com/r/1/215.html
Thought your readers might be interested in this...
Regards,
Andy
Posted by: Andrew Peacock at August 31, 2004 10:11 AM
