JonathanWCurd

Great domain.

My suggestion is instead of searching for an idea to build for the domain sell it to someone (you should be able to get a large sum of money for it) then take that money purchase a domain that correlates to an idea you are passionate about.

I think this route has two major reasons why it is a better idea than chasing an idea to fi into the domain.

#1) If your passionate about the idea you are more likely to pursue it and stick with it. You'll be more excited to go to work each day. You'l be wiling to take the ups and downs in stride.

#2) You already have in a sense an angel round from yourself. This eliminates the pressure of financing at first and allows you to focus on really knocking it out of the park.

How did you come about that name, did you buy it years ago, acquire it recently?

Are you going to show targeted ads that you sell or just a stream from Adsense or another provider? If you are selling your own targeted ads what market are you in?

I'm sure you could apply again but the hope would probably be that you are further along in your path towards executing the startup idea.

If you are serious about learning set up a trading account with a small sum of money. If you are worried about losers then a paper trading scenario works too. Then just learn the basics and keep learning from doing. You can read all the books and watch all the videos but as with most things in life actually getting involved and hands on will be more valuable than anything.

This looks like a promising concept. I'd love to give it a spin to try and clean up my mail headache.

What stage of life are you in? What portion of you savings is this?

I Ask because if you are young and have opportunity to earn / save more, I would say yourself. If you are older and this represents a significant portion of your nest egg I would have other suggestions.

If you use apple to process the transaction then I would say yes. If you do it some other way ie paypal then probably not.

They would of course take 30% of the cost of the app if it wasn't free.

With your app it kind of sounds like you have a chicken / egg problem so you may want to just open it up to the most users possible so tat it is the "best it can be".

In the past we have tried both and I've found being more restrictive allows you to iron out things (most of the time unforeseen) before a full scale launch but you lack the large user base that you would get by just opening it up (Signup to be notified lists in my opinion and experience leave a lot of users out cold who don't come back).

In addition, larger betas can get you more traction quicker and also provide insight into new markets and uses for your app you never thought of while smaller betas on the other hand create a good core group of early adopters (because you can give them more attention) that if taken care of will help to champion your cause and spread word about your product.

Yes but the regular deadline has passed. You can apply late I believe but chances of acceptance are much smaller.

You can alway apply late ad get going on your idea and if you are not accepted apply on time for the next cycle with development of your idea already under way.

Solving a personal pain point is also a good place to find something to start with. Then design / build something you would use to solve the problem.

Pick something simple to start with. Build it and get satisfaction from launching something and the confidence that goes with it. Then up the ante and repeat all over again. Before you know whats going on you'll be in the middle of it all.