buildaguy.com
And again, I actually own this domain. Not that I'll likely ever have time to play with it...
Came up with this one while brainstorming with a coworker. We were talking about those occasionally great, mainly useless sites you get from work colleagues every so often. Test Your Love Potential. What Every Guy Needs To Know. Your Tantric Horoscope Of The Day. You know what I mean.
So: Build A Guy.
Tongue-in-cheek mainly, a fun site targeted at women. You'd go, you'd fill out some personal information, and out would pop the ideal guy, targeted just for you. Think Weird Science in reverse, only the guy wouldn't actually crash through the door.
The premise being that women have a Very Hard Time finding Mr. Right. So why not build yourself one?
The results you'd get would be a profile like this:
* 3D-generated picture of the guy, face and full-body
* personality profile
* likes and dislikes
* his idea of a romantic evening
* books he likes
* movies he likes
* favourite foods
* favourite music
* astrological profile
I mean, a huge resulting profile, pulled from a sheer ton of available data in the DB, based on the answers given in the questionnaire. Lots of intelligent matching in the backend. You get the idea.
You could send them to friends who have just broken up with a guy, can't find Mr. Right, married anyway but are curious, the whole gamut.
I think women would love it, same way they love those personality tests and other bits on the web. It could go viral. Women sending it to office mates who in turn send it to other office mates, and so on. Sending each other profiles. Laughing over the results. Making profiles for their friend's birthdays. Et cetera.
The matching software and 3D model generation would really be the key here to being able to actually have a revenue model down the road.
Maybe you could have a “light” profile for free; charge 50 cents or a dollar through PayPal for the 5-page full profile.
Spin off a sister site for teen girls. Different data, different interests, different 3D models.
Spin off localized versions for Japan, other countries.
For that matter, build intelligent enough matching software and spin it off into a real personals site.
Or one better, package the matching software and related bits as turnkey personals software for other websites.
I could keep going like this all night.
Ah, for unlimited time and funds. :)
2002.09.11 12:21 AM