I have about 20hr a week that I'm willing to commit to a project. I'm a Full Stack Developer but no design experience. What do you think I should do with it?<p>Keep in mind, I'm terrible at coming up with business ideas and even worse at marketing. Yet, somehow, I still have the nagging desire to do a startup.
Here's an idea/business you are more than welcome to steal/build/collaborate if you want.<p>MarketingBar
Similar to <a href="http://www.hellobar.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.hellobar.com</a> create a service where you can install a bar on the to of your site (javascript) and allow targeting the bar with 3 types of messaging (link, question, offer).<p>1. Simple Link - e.g. Follow us on Twitter @username
2. Ask a question with Call to action, e.g. We love talking to people on social media: What's your @username? [input box] or even a Yes/No e.g. Are you in the market for some new pants (yes [radiobutton] / no [radio button]
3. Offer call to action - Take 10% off your order today with coupon code: 10off<p>Allow for a CMS like system for targeting each message based on URL and/or referal (.e.g if the refereal is twitter, show message about following or capturing their twitter username).<p>Bonus - integrate <a href="https://github.com/codejoust/session.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/codejoust/session.js</a> so now you can track each visitor and their entire path showing what message was shown and what pages they visited.<p>For ideas take a look at <a href="http://www.getbackstory.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.getbackstory.com</a> <a href="https://mixpanel.com/activity-feed/" rel="nofollow">https://mixpanel.com/activity-feed/</a> and <a href="http://www.springmetrics.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.springmetrics.com/</a><p>Hope that helps or gets the ball rolling on some ideas :)
Feel free to hit me up if you want to talk more.