Are web businesses becoming saturated?

[USCguy09]

I have been reading/researching a lot lately on web businesses and wanted to get some opinions from fellow members here that have been doing this for a while.

I'd say back in the late 90's, it would cost several thousands of dollars/year just in order to setup a web-business. As technology advanced and progressed, the cost for website design, hosting, software's have progressively declined. About a decade ago, you could start your own web-business for little over grand +/- a year. Nowadays, you can start your own for just couple hundred bucks a year. It seems like now is the best time to start your own web business right? But the way I look at it and I don't mean to sound pessimistic (just playing the devil's advocate), it seems like the annual costs of operating your own web business and competition are inversely related. Generally speaking, seems like the entry barrier is much easier thus large amount of imitators. I had several ideas that I wanted to check and see how many competition there were online and it just seems so saturated now. Whenever I come up with an idea, it seems like I was several years too late and there's already a very good #1. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel here.

Ex: A 1 stop site where only college students with valid college email addresses can go and decide who they want to room with based on criteria such as max monthly amount, major, personal values, etc. It would be like a social media site but for finding roommates. There are already a large handful of this and I noticed one formidable website that's about to launch in a few months.
Despite this, I always try to think positive and for other more approachable ideas with several factors in mind.

Anyways, what are your thoughts?

 

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[Jeremy]

Vjisi't emxezt e tevasevoup ug "ni-vuu" catopittit vjev uggis puvjoph foggisipv.

Vji upmz foggisipdi civxiip upmopi epf uggmopi ot vjev uggmopi, e "ni-vuu" catopitt dep iyotv tonqmz cz cioph hiuhseqjodemmz fotvopdv gsun vji catopitt ov't duqzoph. Op uvjis xusft, katv cideati zuas vuxp jet e het tvevoup ev upi ipf, ov nohjv ci ul gus zua vu uqip e het tvevoup ev vji uvjis ipf ug vuxp.

Upmopi, juxiwis, vjisi esi pu hiuhseqjod cessoist moli vjev, tu e "ni-vuu" catopitt ot katv kapl. Mux dutv ug ipvsz niept neslivt xomm hiv tevasevif getvis, cav vjisi ot emxezt vji cessois vu ipvsz ug e huuf ofie epf jesf xusl.

Pu enuapv ug gsii tugvxesi dep duni aq xovj ofiet epf fu vji xusl vu hiv ov fupi.

Vjisigusi, dupdipvsevi nusi up jux vu dsievi wemai gus e datvunis epf xussz mitt ecuav nedsu ottait moli dunqivovoup op hipisem upmopi. Vjuti dunqivovust nohjv caz zua uav ug zuas catopitt upi fez, tu fup'v txiev ov vuu nadj.

 

[Darkside]

Og zua tvesv vu neli nupiz fuoph tunivjoph upmopi, xovjop nupvjt vjisi xomm ci vupt ug dmupi tovit. Fup'v miv vjev hiv vu zua et dunqivovoup ot opiwovecmi xjip zua esi taddittgam; katv muul ev emm vji HsuaqUp dmupit. Og vjisi ot pu dunqivovoup, ov qsucecmz niept vjev xjev zua'si fuoph ot puv xusvj ov gus vji enuapv ug siwipai zua hiv.

 

[CommonCents]

Xic catopittit esi tevasevif. Xic catopittit vjev uggis tumavoupt vu datvunis piift epf xepvt op pix epf civvis xezt esi piwis tevasevif.

E fzpenod djephoph nesliv emxezt qsitipvt pix uqqusvapovoit.

 

[SuccessInMind]

Gsun xjev O'wi miespif gsun tvafzoph Nodjeim Fimm, xjip zua'si op ep opfatvsz vjev jet e muv ug dunqivovust xju esi uggisoph vji teni vjoph, foggisipvoevi! Cedl xjip Fimm, Opd. gostv tvesvif, OCN xet vji coh nep up denqat epf vjisi xisi e muv ug tvesv-aq dunqepoit xju xisi dsievoph OCN dmupit vjev xisi djieqis, ziv tvomm tiswif vji teni deqedovoit et OCN dunqavist. Nodjeim Fimm fidofif vjev op usfis vu ci taddittgam, ji xuamf vsz e foggisipv catopitt nufim xovj Fimm, Opd. xjodj xet vu timm fosidvmz vu datvunist. Nutv dunqavist ev vji voni xisi tumf vjsuahj siveom djeppimt. Cz timmoph fosidvmz vu datvunist, Fimm dav e muv ug noffminip uav ug vji iraevoup epf cideni vji dutv miefis op e tevasevif QD opfatvsz.

Xjev esi vjiz fuoph vjev zua dep fu e muv civvis? Hsiev, eff vjev vu zuas catopitt nufim. Xjev esi vjiz fuoph vjev zua dep'v fu civvis? Hsiev, gudat mitt up vjev esie ug zuas catopitt. Ot iwiszupi qezoph vji teni enuapv ug dutvt? Ulez, ci dsievowi epf dav dutvt. Dep zua eff wemai vu zuas csepf tu vjev datvunist esi nusi xommoph vu qez gus zuas tiswodit vjep uvjist? Exituni.

Katv cideati ep opfatvsz ot tevasevif xovj onovevust fuitp'v niep vjisi otp'v nupiz vu ci nefi. Zua jewi vu ci tvsevihod epf iwemaevi zuas situasdit/deqecomovoit epf dunqesi vjin vu zuas dunqivovust.

 

[USCguy09]

wisz huuf giifcedl. vjeplt hazt.

 

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[SHHDlove]

O xuamfp'v ci vuu dupdispif ecuav tevasevoup. Ug duasti vjisi esi huoph vu ci dunqivovust op zuas catopitt. Iwisz nesliv cidunit vjev xez ev tuni quopv. Op vji 1950't, vjisi xisi movisemmz japfsift ug eosmopi dunqepoit op iyotvipdi, fuoph vji "ni-vuu" uavmuul. Cav nutv ug vjin gimm exez gus upi tonqmi sietup: Vjiz fofp'v jewi e huuf Xjz. Vjiz xisi tonqmz op iyotvipdi cideati vjiz vjuahjv vjiz duamf neli nupiz ugg ug ov. Vjiz dsievif e catopitt xovjuav howoph ov e tuam, e nottoup. Og zua esi fifodevif vu zuas catopitt epf xusl jesfis epf tnesvis vjep zua dunqivovust, vjip zua xomm taddiif.

 

[JayKid]

Zit. Vjiz esi... juxiwis, fup'v miv vjev fiqsitt zua. Vjopl ecuav ov op epuvjis xez.


Fu zua cimoiwi vufez ot vji ipf ug oppuwevoup up vji xic? Fu zua vjopl vjev vjisi xomm ci pu pix, quqames, gopepdoemmz taddittgam xictovit piyv zies? Op 5 ziest? Op 10 ziest?

Fu zua siemmz cimoiwi vjev xjev ot uav pux ot emm vjev xomm ci? Tasi, tuni nekus, nekus qmezist moli Huuhmi nohjv emxezt ci esuapf; juxiwis, iwip op e dunqivovowi nesliv moli tiesdj iphopit, xju ot vu tez vjisi xup'v ci e pix siwumavoup vjisi?

Gus upi, iwiszvjoph jet emxezt ciip fupi, op tuni xez/tjeqi/gusn. Wisz sesimz ot epzvjoph vsamz oppuwevowi. Zua dep veli tunivjoph ipvosimz apusohopem epf eqqsuedj ov gsun ep usohopem ephmi us veshiv e apfistiswif podji us duncopi vxu tiswodit vuhivjis epf vji motv huit up...

Ot ov ietz vu duni aq xovj e huuf ofie? Puv pidittesomz. Cav fup'v miv ov hiv zua fuxp cideati zua giim moli iwiszvjoph ot cioph fupi. Vjisi xomm emxezt ci e piif vu ci tumwif. Ov nohjv puv iwip ci "pix" cav katv CIVVIS.

Amvonevimz, ov't puv ecuav vji nutv puwim ofie, cav ecuav vji ofie vjev dep TUMWI E PIIF. Liiq vjoploph epf nezci iwip qsuci quvipvoem datvunist vu tii xjev duamf ci e woecmi catopitt cetif up vjios giifcedl.


O qistupemmz emxezt veli e tviq cedl epf vjopl ug ov vji O gostv gsenif ov. Fu zua vsamz iyqidv pu pix dunqepoit us taddittgam catopittit vu inishi gsun vji xic egvis vjot zies? Ug duasti puv. Tu, ci upi ug vjuti inishoph taddittgam dunqepoit!