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Re:Startup ideas spreadsheet by SyneRyder on Monday December 10, 2012 @07:26AM (#4898709)
I used to pay for services to backup my FB status & tweets - Backupify and TweetSaver. There was a market, once! But now FB lets you download your updates for free, and TweetNest lets you archive your tweets for free.

Sometimes the problem isn't identifying the pain point, but identifying the competitors that are already solving it.

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Re:Startup ideas spreadsheet by kintamanimatt on Monday December 10, 2012 @07:33AM (#4898728)
I'm really curious: why would you pay to back up ephemeral thoughts? Did you plan on re-reading them, or did they hold some other kind of value?

The thoughts I posted to Facebook, and the tweets I tweeted were fairly low-value content. I deactivated my FB account and stopped tweeting from my personal twitter account; if I never saw those tweets or status updates again I don't think I'd be worse off.

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Re:Startup ideas spreadsheet by dirtyaura on Monday December 10, 2012 @11:55AM (#4899960)
People with kids usually post a significant amount of anecdotes, observations and photos about their kids. I can totally see that people could pay to get these backed up, formatted nicely and provided as a separate web service, a slideshow or a physical book that they could give to their kids later.
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