Ideas for a website? anyone? - Page 3

garion888 · #21 02-24-2006, 01:00 PM

People are pretty much set into places like Fark already. They kind of have the market cornered. I'd vote for the trip reports site if I had a vote.

Larry David · #22 02-24-2006, 05:50 PM

We should try to corner the porn market before it gets too big.

diebitter · #23 02-24-2006, 05:51 PM

I worked on a dvd pr0n site once, you get sick of seeing the covers/backs. I'm not kidding.

diebitter · #24 02-24-2006, 05:55 PM

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People are pretty much set into places like Fark already. They kind of have the market cornered. I'd vote for the trip reports site if I had a vote.

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Don't you think that if, say, Fark had the ability to comment and make a thread under an news item, you'd have quite a bit of potentiial fun/shenanegans/bitchiness/comments going on there?

blinden84 · #25 02-24-2006, 05:56 PM

so you want to make slashfark?

garion888 · #26 02-24-2006, 06:05 PM

Fark does have that ability, If you click the blue numbers on the right there are threads miles long about all kinds of stuff...

diebitter · #27 02-24-2006, 06:09 PM

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Fark does have that ability, If you click the blue numbers on the right there are threads miles long about all kinds of stuff...

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lol - my bad! Back to the drawing board...

Back to the Trip Report idea...the problem I had is it takes a lot of work to do a TR. Now on an established site, people might be ready to do it, but on a low traffic site (as all starting sites tend to be), people just wouldn't be bothered to, and the site would just dry up completely. You see the problem?

garion888 · #28 02-24-2006, 06:23 PM

My guess is that you'd need about 15 core people willing to write full time for the site. I think you'd need a startup minimum of 50 TRs. Then if those 15 people each wrote two TRs a month you'd have a pretty decent magazine type site. As popularity grew you'd get people who wanna write something for the site and of course you'd let them. If you look at the TuckerMax site he only has about 50 stories all together and people seem to think that site has oodles of good content.

ElaineMonster · #29 02-24-2006, 07:04 PM

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How about a "just found" registry of microchips for lost pets to let owners check the web to see where their pet is? Could have a link to tie-in to yahoo maps or whatever for the shelter, maybe, if you wanted to go to that trouble or could afford what you might have to pay. Look like a hero while doing it.

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This is a good idea, but a HUGE undertaking. There are at least 3 or 4 different microchips and even more different registries. Not even all chips are inserted in the shoulder area, some vets put them elsewhere. Many shelters do their own registry in addition. And the current registries probably wouldn't give you the info for free if at all.

And what about the other methods of ID like tatoos and collar tags? Most people don't even chip their pets yet, so the service wouldn't be that useful for most people and their animals.

Also, microchip registries (whoever you filled out your paperwork and paid your fee to when you got your animal chipped) are supposed to call you when your animal is found. Vets and shelters are supposed to scan all animals, living or dead (but not every county requires it). So, all you need to do is keep your phone number up to date with the registry and you don't need a web based database.

But the larger problem is that there isn't a nationwide database for all found animals regardless of chips.

Blarg · #30 02-24-2006, 11:04 PM

Well, you know how phone tag goes, and spacey people leaving it up to somebody else to do something, and that something eventually getting forgotten. Also, people change their phone numbers, and move. I'd find the ability to look it up on the web quite handy.

Heck, a shelter could even use contact with a database as a sort of receipt and proof that they didn't kill an animal or start medical experiments on it without doing something traceable to try to find the owner. Anyone can claim to have made a call, but they might be harder to trace and verify than an entry in a database.

Microchip companies or shelters or medical research facilities might see it as losing something to give out information on found pets, but they could also see it as a free service that helps them prove their value to the customer and their being above-board in their dealings with dog sellers. Really anyone who deals with lost or sold animals could use it and probably find some value in it.

Tattooes, collar tags, whatever, same deal. Just have different fields in the database to put that info into.

The thing is, you don't need info from all tagged pets, just the lost one. So the data entry wouldn't be a gigantic hump to get over on start-up. You don't have to care about the pets that have never been lost, only the ones that have, and that's a tiny minority. A shelter would just have to fill out a few fields in a database form, and it's done. Heck, I'm sure there are programs out there that could take that info and send out e-mails and/or make phone calls automatically.