I feel like I have tourettes today.
There's a shitty place down the street called Pasta Ya Gotcha. Everytime I go past it I shake my head and think it's sad that the owner doesn't have friends. They could have told him to rethink his business name, saving him from ridicule.
"And that's why keeping business ideas secret is a bad idea..."
I registered Plixa.com last night. Unlike most of my crazy website schemes, Plixa's a really simple idea: it's where you buy high-quality website templates.
See, on the net, there's only one place to buy website templates, TemplateMonster. They're good at what they do. They have over 5,000 designs on their site, and they succeed in making templates affordable to the masses. By the nature of it though, the templates they sell are low-end.
* Most of their stock is gimicky (e.g. flash intros)
* Web 2.0 has been a popular design theme for over a year now and they don't have any templates in that style.
* There's a distinct lack of quality in the templates they sell. For example, none of the hundreds of layers are labeled in the photoshop files you're buying.
Plixa.com could do these things better because we could target the high-end market. We could be Whole Foods to their CostCo. We could sell templates for $200 instead of $60.
If you're my friend and think Plixa.com is a stupid idea, now's the time to tell me before I get too emotionally invested in it.
I think though that it's a sound idea. Over 150,000 people a week are searching for website templates in Yahoo and only 1 company is servicing them?
There's a shitty place down the street called Pasta Ya Gotcha. Everytime I go past it I shake my head and think it's sad that the owner doesn't have friends. They could have told him to rethink his business name, saving him from ridicule.
"And that's why keeping business ideas secret is a bad idea..."
I registered Plixa.com last night. Unlike most of my crazy website schemes, Plixa's a really simple idea: it's where you buy high-quality website templates.
See, on the net, there's only one place to buy website templates, TemplateMonster. They're good at what they do. They have over 5,000 designs on their site, and they succeed in making templates affordable to the masses. By the nature of it though, the templates they sell are low-end.
* Most of their stock is gimicky (e.g. flash intros)
* Web 2.0 has been a popular design theme for over a year now and they don't have any templates in that style.
* There's a distinct lack of quality in the templates they sell. For example, none of the hundreds of layers are labeled in the photoshop files you're buying.
Plixa.com could do these things better because we could target the high-end market. We could be Whole Foods to their CostCo. We could sell templates for $200 instead of $60.
If you're my friend and think Plixa.com is a stupid idea, now's the time to tell me before I get too emotionally invested in it.
I think though that it's a sound idea. Over 150,000 people a week are searching for website templates in Yahoo and only 1 company is servicing them?
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Me and the boys in the band drink Monster religiously.