Idea For A Newbie App?

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When I started investigating all of the different IM models, I suffered from information overload. My drive was littered with hundreds of PDF and videos I had downloaded. My bookmarks were a mess with a zillion links to pages that I know I bookmarked for a good reason, but weeks later I couldn't even remember what they were about. I had pages of notes I had jotted down during web casts. Sound familiar to anyone? So I wrote myself a simple web app that enabled me to do things like: organize all the documents and media I had downloaded by tagging them. So I could tag a PDF with phrases like "seo", "twitter tips", "facebook fanpages", etc... then I could easily find all the documents that contained information on that topic. I would often find sales pages I liked and would bookmark them, but a month later the page would be gone, so I added the ability to scrape a URL, give to a description and tag it. Now I could get back to any page whenever I wanted plus it was organized along with the rest of my information. The app had a bunch of other cool features too - like a to do list. I recently showed it to a buddy and he thought it was cool and suggested I turn it into a full blown website that would allow anyone to take advantage of it. I could do this pretty easily, but wasn't sure that it was something the community would ebrace, so what better place to pose the question than this forum? any feedback would be appreciated - and please feel free to toss me any suggestions.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    I think it's a great idea and a lot of Internet Marketers could benefit from it. I probably think it would be best executed though as a software program people can download and use on their own computer. The reason being if someone is out on the road and doesn't have an Internet connection, they might still want to use it.

    Give it away for free maybe and then run advertisments in the software to make your money. I think if you gave it away for free you could get a lot of people download it, if it does the job you are saying.

    One other idea, if you went down the website route and people used this application online, you could also create a bit of a search engine out of it. So if I was looking for good information on 'facebook fanpages' I could search that term and any pages other people had tagged with that term, would show up. You would need a way though to make sure that only pages that had been tagged or favorited by more than say 5-10 people would show up in the results. Otherwise people would start tagging their own products and sales pages to show up.

    You could then show ads down the side of the search results that link to clickbank products that are related to the search where you get commissions on each sale.
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  • Profile picture of the author rusty1027
    Thanks for the input Will! You've given me a couple of good ideas.
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  • Profile picture of the author rusty1027
    Hey guys, Will gave me some great input on this idea. Does anyone else care to comment?
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