Sushil Kumar Gupta

As I said in my earlier post, I am going to list out few of the startup ideas that are roaming in my mind and will talk around it. Before I list out the ideas, I am still confused whether I should really share these ideas or not. Basically, peoples in Silicon Valley say, “Ideas are worth nothing. If you don’t code, get the fuck out of here.” And well, after the movie “The Social Network”, we have seen a really good example of an Idea being stolen away. Well, though the idea of Facebook was stolen, my support still goes to Mark because he is the one who have done the whole bunch of coding and stuffs to take it where it is now. Well, it might not be too appropriate to talk about Facebook at this age where the Yet Another Social Network GOOGLE+ has already arrived between us. This too tells me ideas are okay to share, after all it is not safe at any point, the idea can be stolen/copied even if your company will reach an valuation of $50 Billion at IPO or even more.

So what are my startup ideas? Starting from the big one, which I have in my mind for a long time, may be for a year. I will continue to post my other simple ideas in my upcoming posts.

Peoples Directory – Professional Profile

So as the name implies, it will be a place where one can find most of the information about a real person or a company. It will not be like the directory that we used to have in earlier days. I am talking about a website where we will be able to instantant search peoples by their Names, Work, Contact Number, Address and all reverse too. On search, we will be able to list out the persons all details which he wants to show up according to his privacy. Remember, this is not a social network profile. We will show up much more things than the profile that we see on social network site. It will be kind-of professional profile. In the least case, it will be like a visiting card. At the most, it could be like a whole resume if it is personal, or if it is a company, it could be their contact page (if they have their major website already) or a mini official site. I know there are already sites like, about.me and dropmycard.com and others too. A user he can add another user to his contact list, message internally, get notified about the reply message in email and sms. People can also chose to be online, so that they can chat with other peoples in their contact list. Of course there will be options of grouping which will enable users to appear online/offline to certain peoples only. We can use twitter/facebook/foursquare/google+ updates and show what those peoples latest updates are on their profile page. Users can customise there profile to get surveys and feedbacks from their visitor/customer, add their blogs/websites, social networks, phone number, profile/logo picture. So listing out the key features that it can have,

- Professional Profile
- Instant/Reverse Search
- Add Contacts/Internal Messaging
- Online Chat
- Personal Domain Name
- Surveys/Feedbacks
- Updates from Social Networks
- SMS Alerts
- Other Contact Details
- Analytics of Visitors

We can obviously add more features such as reminders to contacts, automated replies, sharing calendar, public rating/expertise etc.

How will I earn?

Basically, earning can be done by upgrading the account to premium versions which will include features such as SMS Alerts, Online Chat, Personal Domain Name, Feedback/Survey Quantity etc. Also, on the free version of users which do not include these premium features, we can generate money by showing up adverts on their page.

What do you see here?

I am not that much into Internet entrepreneurship very much yet. So this may sound a bad idea, or worst idea, or a good idea, or a very ambitious idea to you. I would really appreciate to know what you think. Is it good or bad? What improvements should I make to the way I think about a start-up and specially this one?

Will I do this?

Well, at some point of my life, sooner, I may be starting this project. I am not sure how much it will take, effort, money and time, all values here. I would love your suggestions/feedbacks on this.
Want to do this?

Oh, you are certainly welcome to do, whether with me, or on your own. If you are going to do this for certain, why not send me an email notifying about it. I would be happy to listen from you.