berlinquin
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Hi NamePros,
I've had a business idea simmering in the back of my head for a while and decided to share it here. I've learned a lot from these forums and want some quality feedback before sinking a ton of time into a project with no prospects.
My train of thought began when I was reading a newspaper one morning. The column author shared several links to external resources outside his article using tinyurl. So, each link looked something like: tinyurl(.)com/727sd
IMO, the article as whole really suffered because of how difficult it was to read and then copy the links exactly into my browser. The links were also difficult to distinguish from each other and provided no clue about the destination other than the context of the article.
This made me wonder if you could develop a profitable business model like this:
I'm wondering:
I've had a business idea simmering in the back of my head for a while and decided to share it here. I've learned a lot from these forums and want some quality feedback before sinking a ton of time into a project with no prospects.
My train of thought began when I was reading a newspaper one morning. The column author shared several links to external resources outside his article using tinyurl. So, each link looked something like: tinyurl(.)com/727sd
IMO, the article as whole really suffered because of how difficult it was to read and then copy the links exactly into my browser. The links were also difficult to distinguish from each other and provided no clue about the destination other than the context of the article.
This made me wonder if you could develop a profitable business model like this:
- Research industries that publish significant amounts of print material
- Purchase short but human-readable domains relevant to the industry
- Build service allowing people to register short-links on your industry-specific domain. e.g. with my experience, author could use a link like: newspaper.com/some-relevant-info instead of tinyurl
I'm wondering:
- Would people use a service like this? Is this marketable? Or are standards like bitly and tinyurl too ingrained?
- How could a link-shortening service like this be monetized? Would people pay a small fee (< $1.00) to register a link?
- If such a service could be monetized, would it offer enough ROI, assuming that the cost to purchase short domains is non-negligible?