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What To Do?
This is a discussion on What To Do?, within the Web Design in General section. This forum and the thread "What To Do?" are both part of the Designing Your Website category.
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 Jun 6 2008, 01:23 PM
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Rapid Squeezer  Posts: 128 Joined: 16-February 08  |
Basically ages ago I bought the domain mail-send.net
The idea was that people away from home could go on the site, and email someone via a simple form. I havent touched it for a month but want to start again, but do people think this idea could work? Or is there a better one that would suit the domain more The original Idea was: QUOTE When you are away, and you suddenly realise you need to email someone, say, you are staying at a hotel. Your only email address is at home, and it's on your own domain, not a free online one. You don't want to sign up to Yahoo/Gmail for one email, but would rather trot down to the Internet Cafe and quickly email someone.
That's where 'QuickSend' (Any name) comes in. Go to the address, and you are presented with a form. It has the following fields: Your Name: Your email Address: Email Address to Send To: Subject: CC: BCC: Email Content: Plus Spam Filter, etc. Fill that out, click send. Your email is sent. The other person gets the email, and is told to reply to the email address in the form. Such as: This Email was sent via QuickSend. The person who sent this email wishes you to reply to this email using the address: blahblah@blah.com ---- It could move on to allowing attachments to be added - but only if you pay a small fee (very small) to 'subscribe', which would give you more features. Including a very simple inbox, so people who recieve the messages from QuickSend can reply to them, so you can get their replies on the go as well. Any good? Or is that just stupid? It seems good to me? -------------------- |
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Jun 6 2008, 04:50 PM
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 Rapid Squeezer Posts: 182 Joined: 19-February 08 From: Netherlands |
To be honest, i wouldn't know what to do with it. I can't point out one single person that doesn't have a gmail/hotmail/live account.
People who are not internet experts probably have the above. People that do know something about it, probably also have some kind of webmail. I don't see the benefits, but then again maybe I'm just a big pessimist. 
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Jun 6 2008, 05:40 PM
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 Co-Founder  Posts: 3,089 Joined: 13-February 08 From: Pink House in USA |
I have to say I agree with Velo here. Not because he's a pessimist or anything but because of marketing it mostly. Those that aren't internet saavy are the ones that you'll want to target and how are you going to get the message out to them?
You'd have to market somehow where less saavy people can learn about the service. I'd doubt many would find it via google although I might be wrong there. -------------------- |
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Jun 6 2008, 05:51 PM
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 Squeeze Machine  Posts: 560 Joined: 14-February 08 From: Stockport |
The problem i can see is that the people who aren't internet savvy as Linda says, will either have an account set up by a friend or nephew.
Or, people who aren't that good with the internet will probably not feel the urgency to send an email, they will probably make to with a phone. There's my two cents lol -------------------- |
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Jun 7 2008, 05:13 AM
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Squeeze Machine  Posts: 677 Joined: 15-February 08 From: UK |
This seems like a solution looking for a problem. As others have said, most people have at least one webmail.
Also, how would they receive a reply? You would have to store responses on your server; effectively, you would end up as a webmail provider, and that's not a market to compete in.  But my biggest criticism is not for your idea; the real problem is your method of thought. You started with a domain name, and then tried to find something useful to do with it! That's the wrong way around. Think of a good idea first; the domain name isn't that important. |
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Jun 7 2008, 03:45 PM
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Rapid Squeezer Posts: 128 Joined: 16-February 08 |
Yeh I don't really know what happened lol!
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