R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah

My post Bra & Condom eCommerce website for Indian market is getting more hits now. Looks like they're of high demand or some are trying to create such sites. Some even brought my attention about CondomShopee ; but that's not complete with "sizes" that I mentioned. Someone brought my me another shopping site that's also selling bras TheAgada ; though the site is looking cool, the bra shopping isn't perfect. Not to mention, I'll be greatly interested in architecting or ideating such bra and condom websites/business.

It was a great moment for our team as it was planned more than 5-years ago; but last week we get the Labs launched.

Just for the sake of record, I have noted that "idea crazy" people who think theirs is novel and should be kept secret are on rise. Though I agree to some extent that the ideas be kept secret to get pioneership [sic] credit, I wonder, why they can't compare Coca cola and Pepsi. People giving "free advices" on "ideas" are also on rise.

Of late, I'm quite serious to find some PR personnel to get media attention for our products and labs initiatives: Labs CSSilize - World's first and only project management tool for slicing works (PSD to XHTML conversion and WordPress theme works) SocialAV - World's first and only antivirus building community (start building antivirus online...) jobreapr - World's first and only fixed price job search engine Uboo - India's first full blown consumer portal (private beta) Products GroupDeal - powers many Groupon competitor group buying sites FPPlatform - powers many Fiverr competitor fixed price job sites SFPlatform - powers many Kickstarter competitor crowd funding sites Why PR? As I blogged earlier, our team has added lot of innovations and features. Recently our GroupDeal product/company got a mention in The New York Times . Similar or better coverage might give our team great energy to innovate further and may get good VCs. How Groupon is doing PR? T...

our team has developed popular FPPlatform (aka, fiverr clone) and SFPlatform (seed/crowd funding platform). I see, here we're facing huge crunch in terms of payment gateway solutions. The least closest here is the solution from PayPal called adaptive payments. But, due to their API design and approval process, there's gap creating (Not to mention that PayPal is working with us to improve that). Over the top of my head, thinking of creating a payment gateway provider on the top of PayPal or Authorize.net with improved API design (something like Braintree )

There's huge cry that MySpace--the site that was popular few years ago is kind of dead--kind of killed by Facebook. So, what's the problem?... Often startups start with the some "killer idea". The startups are usually started by a guy who is technical savvy or a sales guy who thinks he can sell it better or a marketing guy who thinks he can market it better... but, often these startups missing a person who is willing to scale it up (I think, such person's designation can be set as Scaler[sic] or so)--instead of just getting satisfied with his technical/sales/marketing ability. So far, I have noted in interviews that people move from company to company when it doesn't grow and scales up. Word of mouth and crowd power is essential to get the startups running. But, companies like MySpace's death are already predicted.

For a long time, I have noted that there's huge potential for an online shopping site that targets bras and condoms. Why a bra site in India? There's no good site available in India. Currently, only enamor has a website; but that doesn't seem to be active and friendly. Majority of the Indian women don't know how to find the right size . Majority wrongly refers the size as a single number--just referring the circumference around breast; but good brands have two-letter representations. Why a condom site in India? There's no good website available except that some manufacturers have static websites. As of now, CondomKing alone exist in this market. There is only one size condom available in India. But, BBC reports that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men . There's more possibility for data mining.

As noted, our team developed software solution platform that powers many Groupon and Fiverr like sites. Initially, the development wasn't much interesting as now; there was less freedom to add our own idea--as customers would be asking exact or similar features of popular site. Taking GroupDeal, when we added merchant interface, many customers didn't want it as it wasn't a feature available in Groupon and LivingSocial; but Groupon has come up with similar feature as Groupon 2.0! We've even added friends mod as I have a gut feeling that Groupon will definitely take that direction. From the very beginning, we predicted that Groupon is good idea out of Woot, but the interface isn't good--something like Digg would be ideal for Groupon; but, we couldn't do anything here. Also, the initial FUD was that our software didn't scale on load--even when we shown it's scalable than Groupon; and that got settled down once MySuperDealToday could sell 1,440 deals in a...

I have been thinking this for a while... why can't we kill bugmenot.com with social bookmarking websites like delicious.com (aka, del.icio.us ). My suggestion is to tag the usernames and passwords with " oAccounts "