During the past week I was looking for topics to write about and there was a few rather interesting ones even though they weren’t exactly scoops. But that’s not what I want to write about. I want to write about all the useless web apps that I kept finding when I was looking for something useful.
I admit there’s some truth in that if you just fiddle around and create nifty little apps or services you can make something very useful in the end, but only if you believe there’s something much more than that, something big and game changing in the end. For example, I agree that fiddling is largely how Twitter got started. But if it’s for a quick buck or quick success and you’re putting all your time and energy into it, it’s just cutting short your potential as a human being and wasting all our time.
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Here’s a nifty service in Beta. RunAlong.se is a small Swedish startup that came about because its founder, Heidi Harman, wanted to go for a run but figured it would be nicer if she could invite her girl friends to come along. This proves the point, even thought obvious but many times forgotten, how easy it is to build a service if you just pull up your sleeves and decide to do it. One of the biggest barriers to entry into the wonderful world of running your own service is no more: The money you need to set up a consumer Internet service is fraction of a fraction of a cost what it used to be.
Here’s how to you start. Post a message for example to http://www.arcticindex.com/jobs/ saying you’re looking for a developer and designer to hire or to find a co-founder with the right skill-set. You could also use a service like iFreelance or just walk into your local technical university and post a message to the bulletin board saying “looking for a developer. will pay real money!”. Do the same for the art school to find your designer. Then set up Amazon S3 or Google App Engine to ensure your infrastructure can scale in the beginning. Then all you need to do is do it. Really!
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