Hello,<p>I am 80% complete with a web app I'm hoping to launch in early fall that I'm calling Pinjot.com. What it is is a responsive (works nice on any screen) forum where users can post "jots" (threaded conversations or links to external sites) and other users can reply/vote/etc.<p>My secret sauce is this: every combination of place/group is its own seperate forum and is indexed for easy finding.<p>So if you go to chicago.pinjot.com/general you are posting to the general group in Chicago. Chicago.pinjot.com/chessplayers, Chicago.pinjot.com/jobs, /personals, /anything and going to Chicago.pinjot.com will list any /groups people have posted to.<p>But its not limited to cities. U can go to anywhere.pinjot.com. Illinois, Midwest, eastcoast, usa, northamerica, www.<p>There is no other system I can find like this and I think its what we all need to target specificaly the people we wish to reach.<p>Is this the greatest idea ever or am I just dillusional and should cut my losses now, as its tearing my family apart and destroying my life trying to make this a reality...<p>Thanks.
From my experience, I believe having a stable life and a supportive family is very important to business success. They provide you with a strong foundation, and a way to weather the emotional lows and highs that come with startups. So, I would definitely give higher priority to family and life.<p>Moreover, I understand from reading others' experiences that for them "success" (however they defined it) took much longer to arrive than they had anticipated in the beginning. So, if you are counting on the "success" of your idea to make everything OK with your family again, be aware that that success, if it arrives, may arrive too late to undo the damage.<p>Finally, money is important, but so are your relationships. If relationships are good, I can still be content with my life, even blissful, even if I was earning below my potential. So, unless I were in a situation in which my family was already starving to death, I would not destroy my family trying to "make it big."<p>Good luck!
Ideas like this can't be judged good or bad in a vacuum. If user acquisition works, then it was genius. If not, then a flop. But I don't think it can be predicted in advance. Can you scope down and get v1 out the door in days instead of weeks? All the risk is in adoption & execution -- I don't think anyone here is going to be able to offer useful advice.