If I ask you a question will you steal my idea?

[Sunfrog]

Do you guys ever do that? Steal someone's idea I mean? I may as well ask you my question because I probably won't make the site anyway so here goes.

Today I found a thing that tells you what people were searching for when they typed in a word. I tried several words associated with the sites I'm planning to build then I started fooling around typing random stuff. I typed in "photo" and it said that when people do a search for the word photo they are looking for digital photo printing. 470,000 people did a search for digital photo printing last month. That's a shipload!

How do I make a website about digital photo printing? I'm not a huge rich company like Kodak so I can't offer online digital photo printing, and I don't think people are looking for a forum when they type that in, so how can I capitalize on all those people looking for digital photo printing?

[propstm]

well its a matter of purpose. And even if you were to launch a site perhaps tomorrow for sake of argument, what do you offer to give you that edge over the other guys?

My roomate is a photo nut, ordering prints of his digitial shots online all the time, and spending evenings on photo forums.... those things exist, how bout putting a twist on something in existence? heck flickr is here too!

Maybe a tutorial site? or a forum specializing in a certain aspect of photography? I"m unsure where you want to take this venture, but think about where you want to go with it, and you will come up with a few ideas :-)

Good luck!

[Sam]

You can make a site that gives information, as for capitalizing you can use this, I made this post a while back.

http://publisherforums.com/showthread.php?t=454

[boron]

How do I make a website about digital photo printing? I'm not a huge rich company like Kodak so I can't offer online digital photo printing, and I don't think people are looking for a forum when they type that in, so how can I capitalize on all those people looking for digital photo printing?

I guess you're asking two things:
1. How to make a site about digital photo printing?
It's about photo printers then, right? You can track reviews of printers in various online PC magazines. You can write a guide how to select good printer. It would be good if you own such a printer, know staff from some offline printer repairing service - all major PC selling companies have them.
Take your time and experiment with idea and the site offline first.

2. How to attract people?
Type Digital photo printing in Google and research top listed sites - what do they offer - and do it better. If you'll sell printers or some related printing or graphic software this can be attractive.

[zac439]

Hm, I would generally tell you to not pursue this idea. For one, it isn't your passion. You will be most succesful in a website that you created because you love what you are doing.

I could be wrong, but it doesn't seem like photo development is your passion. Other big companies have this market already, and it might be hard to come up with an idea to offer something new.

Good luck, though.

[Sunfrog]

Hmm.. so I should give the people something better than what they can get somewhere else, something they like with a twist, or something they can't get elsewhere?

Ya, it's not a passion.

[masm50]

If you have an original idea then you don't have any competition to deal with - but this is pretty rare to be honest. The majority of sites build on what others have done - but maybe export the idea to a different niche.

Normally though - yes - you need to improve on what is already available in order to make your site successful. For every new site you develop you need to ask yourself "why would someone want to use my site more than establishedsite.com?" If you can think of some good reasons then great, go for it, but if not you need to rethink developing that site in a different way or rethink the idea completely.

-Tim