Evan Williams via Barrons: "What if you built Flickr competitor, and limited people to one photo a day. That is basically Fotolog... they got a lot of comments. Which for users is like cocaine. ... How about social networking site, with limit to 10 friends. How about dating site with picture and just yes/no button. How about email with only room for 20 messages. What about MySpace competitor, where people had to be in college... How about a minmalist competitor to Yahoo"

Aside from the 'constraints' point, what's your company/project/organization's cocaine?

Comments

[Sheryl]

How about a minimalist Meetup? I'd love to see a sleeker model ... so would the first-time user who posted the "this interface is SO confusing" message on your message boards.

My prediction is one day in the not-too-distant future, a viable competitor to Meetup will appear, and it will not be a victim of the feature-creep that has plagued your site ...