I had this idea for a long time in my to do list: a place for everybody to download datasets of any kind, from list of countries, states, cities, names, etc, where everybody can upload a dataset and make money from every download in any format, csv, xml, json, yaml, etc.
Small sets will be free, as anybody can find them anywhere online, but they will bring traffic. Huge sets can cost lots of money, since it would be easier to just pay instead of typing the whole set by hand in a database.
For example, I was looking for all prescription medicines to build a med website, guess what, I would have paid good money to get all that info in an easily consumable format.
And like that, millions of datasets for as many different scenarios you can imagine.
The name of all known stars? you betcha we have it!
All movies ever filmed? yep, just $9.95
Is it a viable business? I have no crystal ball, but it has been a need of mine, many many times...
Small sets will be free, as anybody can find them anywhere online, but they will bring traffic. Huge sets can cost lots of money, since it would be easier to just pay instead of typing the whole set by hand in a database.
For example, I was looking for all prescription medicines to build a med website, guess what, I would have paid good money to get all that info in an easily consumable format.
And like that, millions of datasets for as many different scenarios you can imagine.
The name of all known stars? you betcha we have it!
All movies ever filmed? yep, just $9.95
Is it a viable business? I have no crystal ball, but it has been a need of mine, many many times...