Hi all, After weeks of development, my totally new website is ready. It's an "argument site". Could you test the 0.9.3 BETA version of it? I would really appreciate it. URL: http://mynewsites.site90.com/args/index.php (I'm just hosting it on 000webhost free because I want testers before I move it to a domain and a more professional hosting service.) Any critics, comments, suggestions, ideas and bugs are welcome. Do you think it is worth of making it a much bigger project? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Akos
Hi there, This is an interesting concept! I've never seen this before. Just a few things come to mind: 1) How are you going to prevent spam? 2) Are you allowing anybody to post? 3) Do you have great coding to do pattern matching and data mining to find spams and look for hot topics? 4) How can users easily search for the topic to "argue" 5) What if the argument is too heated... Do you have moderator(s) deployed to monitor the situation 6) How are you going to profit from this? Traffic/Ads? 7) How are you going to capture the market QUICK? As this script is easily duplicated. 8) Have you consider creating a mobile apps for this? A quick on the road argument is ... interesting and time killing 9) Any plan to link to Social Network to get the argument even greater? TW/FB/MY/LI, etc? Good luck with your project!! It's an interesting one!!
Hi, Thanks for your review. I really appreciate it. Here are your answers: 1) I am working on a Spam preventing system at the moment. It will be something like YouTube's spam system. If users find an inappropriate argument, they mark it. When an argument gets marked xyz times it gets deleted temporarily. I will check those arguments before deleting them forever. 2) Yes. This is one of the main features. No registration needed. 3) Yes. I will solve that as well. 4) There is a mini "search engine" on the main page. 5) That's one of the biggest problems I'm facing. If an argument gets too heated, like the users start to be rude or insulting, it will be deleted. This will have the same prevention system as spam. 6) Well I'm planning to monetize with AdSense or Amazon Affiliates. Maybe later BuySellAds.com. But I'm not planning to display ads on the front page. So there would be no distraction. I will place ads on search result pages and argument pages. 7) I will capture the market the "old fashion way": Getting BIG traffic FAST. Promoting on FB, Twitter, LinkedIn and G+ . Also I will modify the script to make it a bit more "copy safe". 8) Maybe later. I know that the Smart phone and Tablet market is getting larger and larger. I want to reach everyone. 9) That again, will come in later development. Thanks again.
Hello, Great concepts! Maybe you can make people add pictures about the items that they argue about, it would be better. Or perhaps an argue about 2 or more pictures. Thanks.
Thanks for your answers too! I'll be watching your site from time to time! Keep it up and make it big! Did you write the book "Increase Your Web Traffic in a Weekend?" If so, you'll surely have your plan on #7!
Thanks!! I didn't write that book, but I have a blog with 105+ posts that are about SEO, Internet marketing, Social media and blogging. So I have a few ideas about the future on the internet. (You can find my blog in my signature. Down right corner)
Very nice! We haven't setup our signature yet and I PM you one of our sites that you can take a look.