Ask HN: What Sites would you clone in an emerging country?

Posted by cfontes on Monday February 14, 2011 @01:53PM
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Hi, What you people think would be a good business to get ideas from in a emerging country ?

I am from Brazil, things like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedln, GroupOn etc... are very well known here, What would be a nice idea to start in a country that misses it ?

I heard about threewords.me, that is english only and depends on language which sounds like a good idea to start here, or quora also english only,but this one already have some competitor here.

I think there is plenty opportunity in this kind of business as we are missing them and the english only doesn't work here.

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Re:Ask HN: What Sites would you clone in an emerging country? by hess on Monday February 14, 2011 @02:04PM (#2218076)

Taking suggestions from popular sites is OK. But cloning? Make sure you do something original.

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Re:Ask HN: What Sites would you clone in an emerging country? by cfontes on Monday February 14, 2011 @02:09PM (#2218099)

I don't mean cloning as copying exactly... I mean getting the idea and modifying it to fit in a specific country. Like www.peixeurbano.com did here with GroupOn. I mean copying the business model moreless.

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Re:Ask HN: What Sites would you clone in an emerging country? by notahacker on Monday February 14, 2011 @03:44PM (#2218575)

Craigslist. e-commerce sites that don't ship to your country. Reddit/Digg

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Re:Ask HN: What Sites would you clone in an emerging country? by minalecs on Monday February 14, 2011 @02:03PM (#2218071)

yelp. I think this has the best chance of being useful to local areas. The problem with most of the ones mentioned are they are already worldwide and don't benefit from some sort of local culture. This is not always the case but generally. Local and something that is societally different from American culture that can't be captured just by internationalizing. Example: Mixi in Japan does well as a social network because of cultural differences. China is a huge market that tend to only like Chinese services.

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Re:Ask HN: What Sites would you clone in an emerging country? by cfontes on Monday February 14, 2011 @02:07PM (#2218087)

we have something not close but that tries to copy very badly yelp. and it's not working at all... :( I can't remember it's name now. :(

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Re:Ask HN: What Sites would you clone in an emerging country? by alexchu on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @12:49PM (#2222287)

it really depends on the culture of the location you're planning on attacking. While Reddit/Digg is hot here in the states. the same concept might not fly in other countries. I had a few buddies who started a Digg-like site a couple years back in Taiwan. It never really took off because culturally people over there just wasn't into it. Majority of consumers are still using BBS systems to share news and info even though there are plenty of 2.0 social sites on the market.

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Re:Ask HN: What Sites would you clone in an emerging country? by cfontes on Monday February 14, 2011 @02:04PM (#2218074)

I think something close to reddit would be nice, but it doesn't depend on language to work so people would just use reddit.

We also have here a Yelp like site.

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Re:Ask HN: What Sites would you clone in an emerging country? by jorkos on Monday February 14, 2011 @02:10PM (#2218104)

Have a look at Fabrice Grinda's recent blog post

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Re:Ask HN: What Sites would you clone in an emerging country? by petervandijck on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @05:35PM (#2223686)

Here: http://www.fabricegrinda.com/personal-musings/a-superangel%E...

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Re:Ask HN: What Sites would you clone in an emerging country? by cfontes on Monday February 14, 2011 @02:36PM (#2218240)

Oh, very nice article ! thanks for sharing... helped me a lot.

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Re:Ask HN: What Sites would you clone in an emerging country? by niico on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @06:40AM (#2226004)

O que voce gosta facer de mais. ;)

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