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I regularly use Pocket, and I think it'll keep growing in an age where you're constantly being blasted with interesting content and have to save it for later. I also see it having more potential than the other apps, with the new recommendations service and opportunity saving other media.

I wouldn't call it a "news reader" though, and don't think it belongs in this chart.

No, I'm being serious! I thought about libraries being the same thing as Borders/Barnes & Noble chains (if you're in the U.S.), but there's something about the bookstore (being able to speak at a normal tone, having a coffee shop in there) that seems to attract people more.

This might be a crazy (the wrong type of crazy) idea, or coming from me being sad about the fall of Borders and the eventual demise of B&N.

But I do notice that people prefer to "hang out", stroll around, or spend an evening at a bookstore than a library.

Just to throw in my own (non-tech) idea, which originally led me to wonder what other people's capital-intensive ideas might be:

I would open up bookstores with a Netflix-like business model. You pay something like $5/month to use it, read any books you want without buying them and not feeling like a freeloader. There can be monthly family plans etc., and when someone does buy a book, their fee for that month can be waived.

Clearly, despite having an entire bookstore in their pockets, people want a physical place to socialize and read, and this offers them a way to do that in the 21st century.

Just looked it up, very interesting!

Valid point, but I was trying to aim more along the lines of business ideas that are high risk and require a lot of initial capital to get started.

I agree that just having the capital alone is not enough reason to start a business.

I was asking more along the lines of, "what controversial/high risk business have you always wanted to start, but that requires a lot of starting capital?"

(Purely software startups probably don't fall into that category)

An Amazon for renting things. All the top Google search results looked antiquated..

edit: my search query was just "rent anything"

Part of the long to-do list of features includes:

- Trending page: To show the pics that other users are "liking" the most

- Collections: To organize your favorited pics into folders like "Landscapes", "Fashion", ect.

- Mobile website/app

It would be great to receive advice on UI/UX! (for example, does not having a log-in feel awkward?)