Turning a website/blog into a service (Part 6) | Can The World Hear Me UPDATE

The final step for most people in today’s web startup 2.0 bubble-phase ideology is to go from what they have so far (some open source software/blog archetype) into a full fledged website open to the public for use and subscribers/fame. Yeah… that’s kinda hard.

Currently all we have is a blog and although it has come a long way (we are almost 3 months old!) a blog is still a blog and nothing more. I get to develop my writing skills and you get to read sometimes boring, sometimes witty, sometimes random entries about two teens that want the world to know our name.

Josh is the only one that knows programming and is quite above average but the serious coding needs extended periods of concentration which current high school life does not provide. I need to learn and develop my programming skills so I can help Josh in future tasks.

We are still without a focused aim and niche rather the stereotypical “noob” chasing the dream of creating the next big thing with nothing other than the dream of creating the next big thing. I have tried my hardest to avoid this from the start but somehow turned into it exactly.

So where do we go from here? Despite the “terrors” of Junior year, Josh and I have fared fairly well in the academic curriculum but we are yearning for more. Currently we are both actively participating in the GHOP and it is actually quite fun. The open-source community has a really nice environment and although we are only two in a contest of probably hundreds, the real world experience working with the community is enticing.

We are also participating in the ThinkQuest competition creating a scientific research website about Dunbar’s Number.

We will continue blogging (I got to make Josh write more entries >_>) and see where it takes us. I started this by not forcing an idea because I believed the idea should come naturally to us.  Then for a month we tried forcing the idea out and that didn’t work either. So we will go back to just waiting and seeing what happens.

So this culminates the 6 part series of our mindmapping. Hopefully you all also got some insight because we sure did. Leave a comment and subscribe to our RSS to continue with us on our adventure. Heck, we’re only 16, there is definitely a shiny light at the end of that tunnel.

Previously:
Why form a startup? (Part 1)
Why use web 2.0? (Part 2)
What problems can we solve? (Part 3)
What are the Solutions to these Problems? (Part 4) 
Where are the profits? (Part 5) 

~Kevin X