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Brainstorm: Great website ideas

I'm looking to create a website that attracts a lot of visitors. I'm just can't decide on a topic/service/product to make it about.

Do you have any ideas?

I'd like this to be more of a brainstorm than a discussion, so please don't criticise other people's suggestions. Also don't make comments like "Any idea can be successful if you implement it well" because those really aren't helpful. Get thinking!

Reply 1

Kater Murr

Naked women seem to have a big fanbase.

Reply 2

Glutamic Acid

Sex/porn is the obvious one.

As you're a maths student, then maths is an option.

Reply 3

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Kater Murr

Naked women seem to have a big fanbase.

Yeah, just make a website on maths but include the words 'teen, porn, milf, anal, asian' on the home page so you get more hits. Kudos if you include those words in a mathematical context.

Do something with an obscure fanbase, like model railways or carp fishing.

Reply 4

Absinth

Do it about something you're interested in, as you're more likely to put effort into it.

Reply 5

Orange Juice

What about a certain football club?

Reply 6

sdt

Never heard of a successful website with an author that just wanted hits/money. Those sites tend to be atrocious and die very fast. Good luck anyway.

As for suggestions... Can't go wrong with the world's oldest profession.

Reply 7

pumpkin7

you are morally wrong to use the word 'brainstorm'

bad person, bad person.

:p:

Reply 8

Crystaltears

Do a Maths version of wikipedia :biggrin:

Give people tips on how to survive Maths at degree lol.

(well, if you are a Maths student lol! I just saw what Glutamic Acid had put!)

Reply 9

.Ed.

make a rival tsr , call it "A student room" "ASR" or "the student place" "TSP"

Reply 10

Alive

Sorry James, that is not going to work. If the aim of your website is simply to generate hits it will fail.

Reply 11

guitarromantic

Crystaltears

Do a Maths version of wikipedia :biggrin:

Give people tips on how to survive Maths at degree lol.

(well, if you are a Maths student lol! I just saw what Glutamic Acid had put!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mathematics

Reply 12

James

Thanks very much for your suggestions everyone! I agree that it does make sense to make a site about maths, particularly as I intend to teach it as a career.

Let's talk in more detail now about the potential within that subject area. I figure that KS3 to A Level maths would be useful to the greatest number of people, but there are already a huge number of resources on the internet. BBC Bitesize is pretty comprehensive up to GCSE, Wikipedia has all the definitions and theorems, and obviously TSR is the best place for discussions :biggrin:

. There's bound to be a niche there somewhere, but I've just got to find it!

Bring on the ideas!

Reply 13

MSB

www.differentiationandintegration.com

Domain is available...

I still can't do them very well. It's a niche!

Reply 14

generalebriety

Overground

Kudos if you include those words in a mathematical context.

http://youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=5O5_LFJ7FtI&rel=1&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//s2.ytimg.com/vi/5O5_LFJ7FtI/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskIv4na7TR4Dh8S6Ie4RBTP5

Reply 15

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pumpkin7

you are morally wrong to use the word 'brainstorm'

Indeed, it's inexcusable. The correct term is 'thought shower'.

Reply 16

milliondollarcorpse

http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/

The guy's a genius. He sold a pixel a million pixels for one dollar each, hence he made a million dollars

Reply 17

leeming

generalebriety

http://youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=5O5_LFJ7FtI&rel=1&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//s2.ytimg.com/vi/5O5_LFJ7FtI/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskIv4na7TR4Dh8S6Ie4RBTP5

No longer available, but from the preview picture looked interesting.

Overground

Indeed, it's inexcusable. The correct term is 'thought shower'.

I got told "brain storm" is not non PC (i think its due to people with epilepsy, because they have brainstorms when they have a seizure?), but i thought the replacement phrase was "ideas map". But a check of google and it seems your correct, it just sounds a bit weird to me "shower" heh. If its a bathroom item, it should be called "collective toilet thinking"

As for the website, like many have said, u cant just make a website about some thing just to get hits (hits doesnt mean much, unless u have adverts such as adsence, but even when you do, it doesnt make that much money)
Also as people have said, do a site about maths. Sites about maths which i find very good, are the video teaching ones (http://www.mathcentre.ac.uk/resources_for_category.php?f=1&c=32).
These could also help you with your teaching skills, as its kinda a whole maths lesson, which u have to try to cover all the angles students might have difficulties understanding. You could even have a "request" section, for students to request you to do a question they struggle with, or an area of maths you dont cover on your site, but is still needed (eg. D1/D2 maths).

Other than that, you could try to think up some math games, which are just basic text games done in javascript.