Web 2.0 Entrepreneur

Focus on simplicity for your Web2.0 ideas

• Posted by Tengku Zahasman on May 4th, 2007 filed in Web App Development, Web2.0


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Forget about creating another Netvibes or Meebo. Leave the complexity of such development to the bigger players unless you also have some very very experienced developers to back you up. For a start, focus on simple ideas. Ideas that a normal person like you and me are able to think inside out. Ideas that the end-users can easily “get it”. Ideas that can even make your mom nod when you try to explain to her about your project. Afterall, it has been proven many times that simple web applications can really make it big in the Web2.0 arena - and complex Web2.0 applications does not necessarily mean they’ll be a success. Think about Twitter. It started off with a very simple idea which stemmed up from one of the very basic questions in life: “What are you doing?” From that idea, they created a community around it. They created widgets out of it. And all of a sudden Twitter becomes a trend.

Or perhaps look at how just a simple online to-do list can have so many users praising it. Or an online project management app that is used by many big time project managers. How about Technorati (blog search engine)? Feedburner (feed manager)? MyBlogLog (visitor tracking)? All these applications proved that we don’t need to think too much about creating an application that does so many different things. A good application should focus on doing only one specific thing, and being especially good doing it. Most users love simplistic, focused applications. And that is what we should craft our ideas upon. There is a saying that goes: “Great things often start with a simple idea”. I believe in it..