The Niche List

[hidden_citizen]

I've just read about Diaspora, a decentralized social network, as an alternatice to Facebook, and was bearing in mind the discussion about dating sites. So, what do you think about the idea of a distributed and decentralized dating network? It's just so simple: we have decentralized communications via Skype, decentralized file sharing (BitTorrent), the decentralized Tor network, now decentralized social networks; so why don't be a decentralized dating network? It seems that the discontent with the lack of privacy (and other issues inherent to centralization) on dating websites is even stronger than with social networks like Facebook, don't you think?

[Anonymous]

We do have decentralized dating. Its called going to the nightclub lol.

[hidden_citizen]

We do have decentralized dating. Its called going to the nightclub lol.

Hm... Really? Isn't it centralized? Isn't the nightclub's owner a central authority?

[S3052]

I've just read about Diaspora, a decentralized social network, as an alternatice to Facebook, and was bearing in mind the discussion about dating sites. So, what do you think about the idea of a distributed and decentralized dating network? It's just so simple: we have decentralized communications via Skype, decentralized file sharing (BitTorrent), the decentralized Tor network, now decentralized social networks; so why don't be a decentralized dating network? It seems that the discontent with the lack of privacy (and other issues inherent to centralization) on dating websites is even stronger than with social networks like Facebook, don't you think?

The decentralized dating idea has huge potential to appeal to people.
this is a great white space territory that can be occupied

[Anonymous]

I've just read about Diaspora, a decentralized social network, as an alternatice to Facebook, and was bearing in mind the discussion about dating sites. So, what do you think about the idea of a distributed and decentralized dating network? It's just so simple: we have decentralized communications via Skype, decentralized file sharing (BitTorrent), the decentralized Tor network, now decentralized social networks; so why don't be a decentralized dating network? It seems that the discontent with the lack of privacy (and other issues inherent to centralization) on dating websites is even stronger than with social networks like Facebook, don't you think?

The decentralized dating idea has huge potential to appeal to people.
this is a great white space territory that can be occupied

 Couldnt you just build a diaspora dating server?

[kiba]

More people needed to fulfill niches!

[Waterfox]

I'll be working a little bit on:

1. craigslist like classified ads for locale.
5. Pizza order system. You can order on the web, from the commandline, from your smartphone, sms, etc.

And maybe on:

2. Download site like rapidshare and other crappy host. Inconvenient captcha and required paypal. Bitcoin can possibly take both roles and streamline the whole process.

[kiba]

2. Download site like rapidshare and other crappy host. Inconvenient captcha and required paypal. Bitcoin can possibly take both roles and streamline the whole process.

There are already fierce competition in the download space. There is ubitio.us, bitcoinservice.co.uk, and pastecoin.com.

[kiba]

Pizza niche is now taken up by mizerydearia.

[Stephen Gornick]

I updated the wanted niches list to include local classified ads niche.

Mark that under the "Done" category?
  http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BTC_Mart
The site does support a location field however at this time the it is limited to parts of Europe and Asia.

On a related note, here's something interesting
  http://www.seasteading.org/sinkorswim-contest-winners
  which awarded cash prizes to five contestants, through: http://beta.humanipo.com

[BitcoinPorn]

Interesting old ass thread that I think could use a revisit.   The Bitcoin.org forums really were more tight knit not too long ago, I am actually glad it isn't, shows growth of Bitcoin itself, but I think a lot of things in this thread could be looked over again by new eyes