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This question was sent in by Val, who asking for a little help in creating the next big thing. Any ideas?
I'm planning to run my own, first startup website and have been surfing the webs for relevant info to plan the technology I will use for it (the frontend and the backend, including the software and the hardware). The website will be something like a combination of:
- MegaUpload (users will upload their files)
- iTunes (users will be paid for their uploads)
- and YouTube (in the future I'm planning to let users watch/listen to the content online, without downloading).
I don't have any investors yet, nor the budget - I'm still preparing the idea and I'm going to create first implementation (an "alpha version") before I show it to potential investors. Hence the initial technologies have to be extremely cheap *but* also highly scalable in the future so that I don't have to redo anything when the website grows.
Unfortunately I don't have much experience in running big wesites but, on the other hand, I hope my website to grow extremely big (of course).
My questions are:
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