Intend to develop website on subject I'm interested in...

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Hey guys,
I read the forums alot, but like many others I'm not a doer, mainly due to the fact that I'm just not interested in what other people are interested in.

To get straight to the point (because I'm feelin pretty drowsy it being early hours of the morning) if I developed a website on something I'm interested in, which probably has a low interested audience, could I possiblely monetise my site?

I'm a physics student and it'd be nice to develop a website for myself providing computer simulations of real world models, graphically and maybe if pictorially (right wording there?). I just don't see any income from that apart from selling the programs.

I intend to look at it as a project for fun and try not to think about any returns, but obviously if there was money returns it'd definately be some good motivation for me to get my ass into gear.

Cheers, Billy

P.S. Sorry I haven't contributed in someway before asking a question, but ya know, I have nothing of any use to contribute in these forums...
 


get of your ass and starting doing.
maybe the site will suck and flop, on other hand maybe u make a bunch of $$$$

ammount of people intrested in subject does not really matter.
Lets say only 0.01% of people are intrested in collecting stamps with pics on them of gold fish.

0.01% of XXXX ammount of users is a lot of people.
 
bsmaat said:
I intend to look at it as a project for fun and try not to think about any returns, but obviously if there was money returns it'd definately be some good motivation for me to get my ass into gear.
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Well if you're serious about that then just build it and worst-case you get experience. If after a while you're going to be bummed because it doesn't make money or get traffic, then plan more up front.
 
"computer simulations of real world problems?"

What do you mean by that? If you could clarify what you're imagining here, it might make it easier to visualize the site. I can totally see putting adsense on a site where you're teaching kids vector physics by modeling car crashes, or car crashes with trains, you know.

You could even "go viral" with some you tube videos and your url; show a little model car crashing into another car and then some stock footage of a car wreck.

But I'm just guessing at what you mean by "simulations of real world problems."
 
I guess what I was thinking of was more about more complex problems, like pendulums swinging and frequency and time period relations, and how altering certain variables will alter the GRAPHS of different functions... BUT, something to teach kids would be an excellent idea. Or if I was to work on both in parallel... a more complex section with less graphics and more maths, and a simpler section with more pictures and easier explanations along with simpler problems.
 
bsmaat said:
I guess what I was thinking of was more about more complex problems, like pendulums swinging and frequency and time period relations, and how altering certain variables will alter the GRAPHS of different functions... BUT, something to teach kids would be an excellent idea. Or if I was to work on both in parallel... a more complex section with less graphics and more maths, and a simpler section with more pictures and easier explanations along with simpler problems.
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It's cool that you're interested in that stuff, but I really doubt a lot of kids are going to be looking that stuff up, unless it's for a school report.

You could create Flash games that illustrate physics concepts, that would be cool. Friction, gravity, math functions, etc. If you can get links from edu's that'll help. You could make it a social thing and kids could compete for highest scores in their school, district, state, etc.
 
I'm not sure how you'd sell or even monetize a site specializing in computer simulations of the classic physics experiment relating length of pendulum arc and duration of swing. The concept puts me to sleep and I'm a geek!
 
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