First I'll say I'm a musician, been playing guitar for about 14 years now. Also working in sales selling guitars for a couple years as well. I've had this idea floating around for a good while now and it's starting to sound like a very plausible idea. Basically it's a website or app (leaning towards website because of MASSIVE size), that has up to every guitar made (mass produced) that I can find all in one database as a resource for musicians. It'd be just a great site for just plain good info on all the different guitars out there. The biggest use would be for people buying/selling guitars. I'm sure there's other musicians on here, and you'll probably know when it comes to buying guitars (well really anything) is knowing WHAT you are buying and if it's the best price.
Now this would be strictly a information site, no selling of actual gear. There's plenty of resources for specs, pictures, reviews, and overall information for new guitars out there but no site has every guitar or even near half of the guitars out there. Even more there's many less that have all the used guitars out there. My idea would be to literally have every guitar EVER mass produced I can find all in one database in detail about years made, all specs, finishes, changes over time (if applicable), pictures, reviews,,,. It'd basically be like a Wikipedia, but more guitarists, which does not yet exist AFAIK.
Now that's quite a ton of work and there's tens if not hundreds of thousands of different guitars over the years. For instance in 1959 Gibson had maybe 4 different models of the Les Paul, one of the most famous guitars. But today there are well over 50 different Les Paul models including the Standard, Classic, Traditional, Custom, artist models... Those are subcategories of just one model by one brand. There's then hundreds to thousands of different brands, then throughout the past 50 or so years. I do not know web or mobile developing so I'd need to outsource for the design and development. I would imagine having a page dedicated to each guitar and then all the extra pages for misc, would be an enormous site and probably very expensive and need tons of testing. Turns into quite an investment of money and labor for no guarantee of any income.
Now this idea has me pretty excited and sounds even fun, but I'd love some advice on this. I feel it meets the 5 commandments but I don't know if I'm just convincing myself that. Do you guys have any questions for me on this idea, make me think from different views? Or is this too risky a fast lane?
Thanks
Now this would be strictly a information site, no selling of actual gear. There's plenty of resources for specs, pictures, reviews, and overall information for new guitars out there but no site has every guitar or even near half of the guitars out there. Even more there's many less that have all the used guitars out there. My idea would be to literally have every guitar EVER mass produced I can find all in one database in detail about years made, all specs, finishes, changes over time (if applicable), pictures, reviews,,,. It'd basically be like a Wikipedia, but more guitarists, which does not yet exist AFAIK.
Now that's quite a ton of work and there's tens if not hundreds of thousands of different guitars over the years. For instance in 1959 Gibson had maybe 4 different models of the Les Paul, one of the most famous guitars. But today there are well over 50 different Les Paul models including the Standard, Classic, Traditional, Custom, artist models... Those are subcategories of just one model by one brand. There's then hundreds to thousands of different brands, then throughout the past 50 or so years. I do not know web or mobile developing so I'd need to outsource for the design and development. I would imagine having a page dedicated to each guitar and then all the extra pages for misc, would be an enormous site and probably very expensive and need tons of testing. Turns into quite an investment of money and labor for no guarantee of any income.
Now this idea has me pretty excited and sounds even fun, but I'd love some advice on this. I feel it meets the 5 commandments but I don't know if I'm just convincing myself that. Do you guys have any questions for me on this idea, make me think from different views? Or is this too risky a fast lane?
Thanks
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