| Here are a couple that I'm not likely to do anything with, and encourage people to steal. BookNotice.com -- Ideally, this site asks for your Amazon login, looks at all your past purchases, creates a table of the authors you read, and then notifies you when new books by those authors comes out. Revenue model is simple -- email with affiliate link. "We saw that you've bought 3 books by George R. R. Martin. 'A Feast of Crows' comes out next month. Click here (affiliate link) to pre-order." Ideally, it could also recommend me other books as well using a Netflix-type recommendation engine (or Amazon). I have the name 'booknotice.com', and would happily donate it to anyone who built this. ---------------- Google sites for event sites. Djangocon has a website, and only actually updates it a little before and a little after the event. They don't have anything particularly demanding for a generic web service, but there are things that an event needs that no other site does. Ideally, it needs to handle the irregularity of the event. Last time I looked at the Djangocon site to see when Djangocon was hitting next, all I saw was details on the event that had already passed. I want that stuff to be preserved, for sure, but I don't want to be confused in thinking that I can book tickets to last year's Djangocon. I want the '2013' page to show up, even if it just says "Event details coming soon" after the 2012 event has already passed. It needs to have an archive where I can see who spoke at last year's event, or the event two years ago, and the presentations should be preserved for posterity. Revenue model could be simple monthly hosting costs, or a cost+markup on EC2 compute cycles or something. If this were done by an established company (say, Heroku or Dotcloud), they could be de facto event sponsors for every event and drive revenue to their core products that way. |