Don't you hate it when you think you have a great new idea

[Payton]

and then later find out that someone's already thought of it? Doh... I just read about the paid-to-blog site in the News forum. Was gonna make it thought it'd be unique

 

[a.titus1]

Not only thought of it but done it better than your original idea! Ive certainly had a few like this, but its bound to happen quite a few times.

 

[Julez]

yeah - i really hate that

i also hate when you think you have found a untapped niche and your keyword tool was wrong - you know a million search and zero comp (im gonna be rich )

 

[JDA]

I thought of this same concept:

http://www.apartmentratings.com/

Not that it's a groundbreaking idea or anything, but I was still pretty disappointed to see that site.

 

[joe]

Yea, but being number 2 can make a mint too. The number 2-INFINITY for that niche, JDA, suck.

 

[Stanley]

I don't mind competing with an existing idea.
The way I see it, there's millions of new people using the Internet for the first time every single day. Fresh meat.

 

[Nathan]

Yep!

My biggest peeve is I'm an ideas person. I think of these things and then have no idea how to do it so I sit on it, then later on someone else does it.

Worst example was I thought of an idea for a web site but I'm not a programmer so I didn't know how to impliment it. I let it sit, then about 6 months later I heard of a site using a very similar method to that idea being sold for a few million dollars. I was soooooooooooo happy for them ....

 

[$5 Submissions]

There's no such thing as a completely new idea. It's all about IMPLEMENTATION.

 

[Nathan]

Sure there is. If all ideas have already been thought we would never advance