Money making ideas

[sws]

Hi.  I have a question for all of you.

I have some basic/intermediate php knowledge. I do freelance web design work from home but am barely getting by.

I am brainstorming, trying to figure out what sort of website I could put together fairly quickly to generate some income.

Anybody have any ideas ? WHAT IS YOUR BEST IDEA IN TERMS OF WEBSITE TO GENERATE CASH ?

Bear in mind I have two small children running around so no adult oriented ideas haha.

Looking forward to your responses.

[neylitalo]

This could just be the caffeine talking, but I suspect that most people aren't going to want to share their ideas to make money. And just as a side note, I strongly recommend that you don't try to compete with anything or anybody. To make money in the world of the internet, you really have to come up with something unique. You've heard of MySpace, right? Have you heard of Orkut? Neither did I, until I googled for "social networking sites". The point there is this: Orkut isn't going to make it to the same level as MySpace, simply because MySpace was there first. If you want to try and compete with someone, go ahead - but I think you'll be wasting time and money.

[Telemachus]

[quote]...I could put together fairly quickly to generate some income[/quote]
I may tinker with some things for myself and my friends, but I'm no web designer by [i]far[/i].  Still, IMHO, that right there seems like a total contradiction to me; if you want to draw people to a site, you have to have valuable and preferably unique content which both brings and keeps them there, whether you choose to distribute a product online or just collect on some advertisements, and you'll only get returns on the time and effort you've invested in the project.

[redbullmarky]

not to mention www.milliondollarhomepage.com
a ridiculously simple idea, looks a bit rubbish, made him over a million dollars.

and as neal said, you're asking the question to a community of people who have all the tools necessary to implement their idea themselves if they thought it would be their next fortune :)

[txmedic03]

If you really want to know what would net you some cash online, go ask all the people you know who have internet access, but no coding saavy what they think is missing from the net or just what they wish there was a site out there for and capitalize on it.  Your target client base is your number one source of inspiration.  The only thing you're going to find here is what everyone else has already done.  I must agree with everyone else, if we all had great ideas for fast cash on the web we'd be doing it already.