If you want to make a good site, copy somebody elses, but make it better. If you want to make a great site, create a site from an idea of your own
Well said, you should thoroughly study digg and try to add something unique to your site which will distinguish it from digg.
Unless something changed then no Digg does not make a profit. Most of these big sites that get venture funding (MySpace, Technorati, Digg, Delicious, YouTube etc.) are negative income producers. They work with sole purpose of getting millions of members so they can sell out. Meanwhile they pay millions of dollars in server bills, employees, and other business expenses.
hmmmm weird well I do know Mark Zuckerburg became a billionare so he somehow does it. (how does he do it?)
It just goes to show you that having a good idea isn't the most important part of doing business. For every successful business that came from a new idea there's probably a countless number of people who had that same idea but didn't do anything to develop it. It's easy to sit around daydreaming about how you can make money with some new innovation, but if you never lift a finger to make that idea happen, then you'll just be another poor sucker who sits around complaining about how they had that idea first. To add insult to injury many people won't even believe it when you tell them you had that idea first. I've heard this quite a few times here at DP. The problem with this is that if you're unable to program and unwilling to learn. Then it doesn't matter if a freelancer steals your idea, because you'll never have a chance at all to profit from your idea if you just sit on it. If what you have truly is a great idea, then sooner or later someone will come up with it on their own. So you're not really protecting anything by not telling anyone.
the idea you have, will be in dozens of mind. but it depends on the way you present it and how you market it. There are lots of tool which were completed very early but not earning good and new tools (which are based on the same basic) doing well. better Marketting of product can give you better visibility. --Thanks