Hello Forum,
Wanted to create this thread to document my journey with my first Online Service. Without giving away the idea, It will be a lead generation service that allows individual users to find one another to exchange a good. It is NOT intended to hand the lead off to another company to satisfy the request.
Doing some basic market research, I see that this subject receives 1,000 - 10,000 searches in google each month (around $3 a bid for AdWords). My initial strategy to monetize this site would ad revenue (either CPM or CPA, preferably CPM if I can get traffic high enough).
In order to pull this service off I will need to use a few technologies foreign to me. I believe I found exactly what I need. I am sharing below for others to use if needed.
GeoLocation Service via Google: Place Search | Google Places API Web Service | Google Developers
GeoLocation Conversion Service via Google: Getting Started | Google Maps Geocoding API | Google Developers
(These resources will help me do the logic to find items near my users)
I also plan on using the Facebook SSO to make signing up / reviewing my site extremely easy for my users. I will be looking into the facebook API to see if I can set up the messaging system through facebook, and not store that data in my DB. (Ref. Below)
Facebook SSO Documentation: Single Sign On - Workplace - Documentation - Facebook for Developers
I have an idea or two for long term monetization of the site, but in order to release those features I feel it will be important to get a decent user base, so that will be my very first goal.
I foresee at lease 1 or 2 months of development time before I am ready to publish the alpha, and even longer before traffic picks up, but its a start
Goal: Have this project created and live before I move out of California end of July.
I am always open to criticism and suggestions, so please feel free to add in to the thread!
Wanted to create this thread to document my journey with my first Online Service. Without giving away the idea, It will be a lead generation service that allows individual users to find one another to exchange a good. It is NOT intended to hand the lead off to another company to satisfy the request.
Doing some basic market research, I see that this subject receives 1,000 - 10,000 searches in google each month (around $3 a bid for AdWords). My initial strategy to monetize this site would ad revenue (either CPM or CPA, preferably CPM if I can get traffic high enough).
In order to pull this service off I will need to use a few technologies foreign to me. I believe I found exactly what I need. I am sharing below for others to use if needed.
GeoLocation Service via Google: Place Search | Google Places API Web Service | Google Developers
GeoLocation Conversion Service via Google: Getting Started | Google Maps Geocoding API | Google Developers
(These resources will help me do the logic to find items near my users)
I also plan on using the Facebook SSO to make signing up / reviewing my site extremely easy for my users. I will be looking into the facebook API to see if I can set up the messaging system through facebook, and not store that data in my DB. (Ref. Below)
Facebook SSO Documentation: Single Sign On - Workplace - Documentation - Facebook for Developers
I have an idea or two for long term monetization of the site, but in order to release those features I feel it will be important to get a decent user base, so that will be my very first goal.
I foresee at lease 1 or 2 months of development time before I am ready to publish the alpha, and even longer before traffic picks up, but its a start
Goal: Have this project created and live before I move out of California end of July.
I am always open to criticism and suggestions, so please feel free to add in to the thread!
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