Is anyone making something women want?
Not being sexist, but they seem to -want- more than us, and walking into any shopping area seems to confirm that vendors know this. My problem is that from a tech standpoint, it's hard to gauge what a viable need for them is.
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Most every idea I came up with seems like someone else has already done. This one... I spent two days searching and found nothing comparable.
Is it anything like this: (porn for women SFW) http://www.cafemom.com/journals/read.php?post_id=378609
90% of our customers were women, even though we didn't sell women's clothing at all.
i'd be so rich right now, if it weren't for these bullshit scruples.
Build a web-based version of that. After every round, the player is given two options... "play the next round" or "see more pictures of this girl." The latter is a paid link. Weekend hack => goldmine.
Anyways, if you're inspired, go nuts. Lemme know if you want any help building it. Also lemme know if you want to hear the rest of the idea. (I think Phase 2 could get you one or two patents, and Phase 3 could disintermediate some dirty old men.)
Uh, is it weird that I've put so much thought into this?
I wouldn't worry about having put too much thought into this, I'm sure we've all spent a lot of time thinking about some really far-out things.
I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug. Either way, you can find me at aguvench on gmail.
I've worked on some adult stuff in the past. I have no issues with it but I won't be doing anything in it again. Mostly because it's such a relatively small and boring subset of the world.
I will say that it involved clever abuse of search engines to generate traffic for obscure fetishes (all of them). It might not work today.
Then again, now that I think of it, see http://xkcd.com/305/ for a pretty good summary of half of pg's Plan for Pr0n (the other half shall be left as an exercise for the reader).
It wasn't a backup plan though, just an idea for a practical joke like Trevor's Information Supercollider.
Since you asked, our company is in stealth mode on a product geared specifically for women (not a shopping, dating/rating, community or gossip site).. each demographic has their special needs, we're attempting to address those needs..
I do agree that a web app should be built for anyone. We are building in flexibility, for example, for the significant other of a female to gain value from the app as well..
Woman users exceed men, and the gap is growing.
something like "all consuming" perhaps? ~ http://www.allconsuming.net