It's important to be passionate about whatever it is you decide to do. If you don't really care about whatever it is you're working on, it's not going to be successful.
I do want to be careful about the definition of passionate. It doesn't have to be some world-changing thing; just something you enjoy working on or something you feel is very important.
Here are some ideas you can have for free as well:
* A website builder specialized to a specific industry. Real estate agents for example. Build widgets that they can drag onto their own pages that provide things like MLS searching. Or appointments for a doctors office, etc etc.
* Yet another polling site. Except let people login to track their polls. Later you can use the data to give them suggestions about potential matches, or build a personality profile for them, or whatever. People seem to like hearing things about themselves.
* A health tracking site that lets people keep track of diet, various health biometrics, drugs / vitamins they have taken. This one would require some serious UI-fu, as I think it would only be really successful with a shitload of really beautiful graphs that allow people to track their progress / amount of money spent on supplements / whatever.
The health tracking site that I use to track my diet and exercise is http://www.fitclick.com - needs some work with the graphs, and UI, but the idea's there.
http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
It's important to be passionate about whatever it is you decide to do. If you don't really care about whatever it is you're working on, it's not going to be successful.
I do want to be careful about the definition of passionate. It doesn't have to be some world-changing thing; just something you enjoy working on or something you feel is very important.
Here are some ideas you can have for free as well:
* A website builder specialized to a specific industry. Real estate agents for example. Build widgets that they can drag onto their own pages that provide things like MLS searching. Or appointments for a doctors office, etc etc.
* Yet another polling site. Except let people login to track their polls. Later you can use the data to give them suggestions about potential matches, or build a personality profile for them, or whatever. People seem to like hearing things about themselves.
* A health tracking site that lets people keep track of diet, various health biometrics, drugs / vitamins they have taken. This one would require some serious UI-fu, as I think it would only be really successful with a shitload of really beautiful graphs that allow people to track their progress / amount of money spent on supplements / whatever.