Failed Web Business Ideas: Episode I
The title of this blog Slamboard is the legacy of a website idea that failed.
The Idea: Create an free unmoderated forum that members of heavily moderated forums can use to SLAM other people in an unfettered and anonymous way.
Main Reasons for Failure: Unmoderated means that spammers had free reign. Eventually they would have filled the site to capacity with porn and pharma spam.
Promoting the site essentially required disregarding the TOS of the popular boards. A certain board’s moderators were so offended by the approach that they sent me a nice picture of a man’s genitalia with a tarantula crawling on them. That bothered me somewhat. That board has an ingenius business model. It costs $10 to join, everyone is very rude and offensive and banning is done partly as a way of generating further $10 payments.
Bitching about other members of the ‘nice’ boards is the realm of PM’s, there is no need for an offsight venue.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:15 am
[…] I’ve told the tale of the title of this blog before. It is the legacy of a business idea that didn’t have legs. I have noticed after blogging with this this URL for several months that a lot of my traffic comes from people operating sites to which I have linked. I am now curious about how many visitors were worried that I was posting something negative about them. […]