The calls usually go something like this--

 “Hello Sir, This is Peter from Direct Stench Media. I want to create a site similar to YouTube.com. I plan to make money by allowing people to sign up for free accounts and selling advertisements.”

 Lately it seems I get a phone call like this every day. Youtube or Craiglist for $10,000.00 (or less)? If it was possible we wouldn’t have a development team in our office today.

 Every time there is a website sold for an insane amount of money there are millions of speculators trying to “reverse engineer” this technology. After someone else spends years and countless hours painfully developing, testing, and marketing a site, Peter thinks he can easily “reverse engineer” his ownYoutube.com (did I mention he wants it done by the time the NCAA basketball tournament begins in March?).

 After several conversations with Peter he decided that he wasn’t ready to develop his version of Youtube. Instead he’s working on a site for the Beijing Olympics.

 Good Luck, Peter.

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