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Thirty day challenge, round 2! December 12, 2007

Posted by Niels in : Personal , trackback

This week in New York has actually been one of the most productive for me in a long time. Staying with friends who have real jobs forces me out of the house, so whenever I’m not catching up with old friends, I’ve been working on my laptop in a coffeeshop.

After a week of market research, I’ve got four or five niches that look really promising. Unfortunately, the one that has far and away the most potential is also the one that far and away contributes the least to the world, to the point where I really don’t believe at all in what I’d be selling.

Talking to a friend about this today, he told me the story of Adult Friend Finder, whose founder apparently started it with the intention of helping people meet each other for random hobbies - fishing, reading, whatever. After months of painstakingly deleting naked photos, he finally realized that the market was looking for something else, and with 20 million members, AFF is one of the most popular sites on the internet.

For what it’s worth, I’m not selling porn, but I almost wish I was.

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