[nabentre] getting started:a few questions/ideas

Wed Feb 26 06:02:25 UTC 2014

Hello:
I'm not sure if I was clear. I already do my own web design and I have 
the code, or at least some of it to create an accessible control panel. 
I am not looking for web designers.
On 2/26/2014 12:39 AM, Lauren Merryfield wrote:
> Hi,
> For a website designer and host that are accessible, contact Justin Romack:
> Justin Romack <j at ontempoideas.com>
> Thanks
> Lauren
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabentre [mailto:nabentre-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Brandon
> Keith Biggs
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 9:18 PM
> To: tyler at tysdomain.com; NAB Entrepreneurs Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nabentre] getting started:a few questions/ideas
>
> Hello Ty,
> I'm no professional myself, but I've been reading and researching myself and
> from what I've read there are a couple things you should do:
> 1. Make a business plan.
> 2. start talking to customers about what they would want and get a nice list
> of people who would love to see your product.
> 3. talk to friends and family about your business and ask them if they would
> be willing to help you fund your costs.
> 4. Talk to a business attorney about offering stocks and the different
> business structures.
> 5. attend angel investor lunches.
> 6. There are some government grants (I'm not sure of the website, but the
> name is somewhere in my books, other people probably know what it
> is) Look for support in your area. You may have an advantage because you are
> blind and a programmer. Also I'm sure it would help if you planned on
> getting your own teem of people together, working for you.
> 7. See if you can out-source anything to cut down on production costs.
> 8. Talk to banks about the kinds of loans you can get.
>
> I would suggest you read OPM, Other People's Money by Michael A.
> Lechter. It is on Bookshare.
> On another note, I would really like to have a web host that has an easy to
> use accessible interface.
> I would also like some people who can do the basic design for a website with
> very little if any royalties and who can help get it so I can just upload an
> HTML document or something in order to update.
> If you wanted to be really fancy, you could make a file explorer-type
> application like Dropbox has, but have it as the database of the website.
> That way I could have pages in one folder, app files in another folder,
> pictures in another folder, music in another folder, uploads in another
> folder and that way I can have a backup on my computer, I don't need to
> worry about going into a new system to sort my files and it is easier to
> update.
> Some ideas that you may want to consider are:
> 1. Offering drop-box-like uploading and downloading for audio gamers.
> Developers often hit a cap of how many downloads they can have a month with
> Drop Box, but they still want a free service. So you can offer a free
> service for maybe 1 or 2 games and maybe an add can show up some how when a
> person lists a link. I personally find accessible adds very amusing, but it
> may be better for the game developer them self to build in adds into his
> game while you charge.
> 2. Some how integrate with Drop box, so I can put some part of my database
> in Dropbox and view it on any device. This would be better than trying to
> compete with Dropbox and making apps for portable devices.
> 3. Offer a groups hosting that is easy to use. I hate googlegroups and
> Freelists is not good for everything.
> 4. offer a free website with maybe a very small amount of hosting space and
> only have adds for your website hosting on there.
> 5. Make it very easy to in bed doodle, YouTube, Facebook and Survey Monkey
> into our website.
> 6. Offer the ability to update twitter, facebook and linked in when we
> update our website. That way I go to your website instead of facebook to
> write updates. It would also be awesome to have the ability to make facebook
> events and invite all the people on our email list through an easy to use
> interface.
>
> You could maybe charge a little for each tool as either a subscription or a
> one-time buying fee. It would also be cool if you had a CSS professional
> contact website creators and offer to beef up the look of their website for
> a little cost. As a blind person I am really scared about looking really
> dumb to sighted people, but I want to build my own webpages. I just don't
> trust myself with CSS.
> I would really like to see some kind of provider like the above come to be,
> so I can use it for all my websites and so people at audiogames.net aren't
> having to combine their dropbox with their games for their first several
> projects.
> Also, if someone has a game on a website it looks so much more professional,
> everyone sees a dropbox link and knows that that person is new. A website
> link says to the consumer that this developer knows what they are doing.
> Also, with a website link people can get listed on the audio games website.
> I was looking at Sam net and really liked their product and interface.
> It just didn't have enough documentation for me to want to buy it. But I
> think using Same Net and Dropbox would be better than trying to compete with
> them.
> Thanks,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs
>
> On 2/25/2014 6:51 PM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote:
>> hello all:
>> I had a few questions I wanted to run by some of you.
>> First, I'd really like to get into the area of web hosting and selling
>> virtual-private servers. There's all sorts of stuff that can be done
>> with this, but essentially it'd be nice to be able to start customers
>> up and host their websites for them--perhaps with an easy interface to
>> get them going.
>> While I realize web hosts are a dime a dozen, I want to offer
>> security, privacy and stability as my selling point, together with an
>> easy-to-use accessible panel and some other features that a lot of
>> companies don't really have.
>> Given this, I've started looking at setting this up--perhaps by
>> writing all the code and creating the needed services first. While I
>> work on the code needed to manage all of this, I was trying to figure
>> out how I'd actually afford startup costs. I'm in college, so money
>> isn't exactly raining from the heavens; similarly, I don't tend to
>> have much at all left over at the end of each month to throw in
>> savings. Are there good resources for creating startups and funding?
>>
>> I've also considered marketting a few projects I have on the workbench
>> first, which might help me get going in terms of funding, to the point
>> where I can expand. to that end and to help me, I've had some
>> experience with IOS development and would like to start finding people
>> who are in need of server administration, backend web development or
>> IOS/desktop development. I've seen a few sites that are dedicated to
>> this, but they generally want a monthly fee inn order to get going.
>>
>> Any advice/information would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>
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