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Re:Ravelry - a very successful deployment of Ruby and Rails by callmeed on Thursday September 03, 2009 @02:02PM (#803057)
Indeed. And the reason I look over my wife's shoulder now and then when she's on her computer.

She's a craft/fashion/music/wedding nut and I've had more than a couple ideas for that half of the population.

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Re:Ravelry - a very successful deployment of Ruby and Rails by blogimus on Thursday September 03, 2009 @04:44PM (#803500)
A couple of days ago, I read the following article: http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/27/million-dollar-businesses-e...

One of the businesses is Jimmy Beans Wool, started in 2002 with $30k and had $2.1 mil revenue in 2008.

now boasts an average of 20,000 customers per month, mostly through the Web site.

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Re:Ravelry - a very successful deployment of Ruby and Rails by varikin on Thursday September 03, 2009 @02:28PM (#803125)
Agreed. I am currently working on a site to fill a need that my wife, an artist, has. I found that the best way to find great ideas is to ask friends and family.
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Re:Ravelry - a very successful deployment of Ruby and Rails by patio11 on Thursday September 03, 2009 @02:36PM (#803145)
The downside with friends and family is that they want to help you. Regular people want to help themselves. Find regular people, ask what their problems are, solve them, make money.
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