Please, criticize my business idea

[Steves99]

Hello,
I've got an idea of creating a website where startups can find online team for their project all over the world. Applicants, who want to apply for any startup sending their CV's like on any other job searching website but all the teams will work online using a remote desktop. In this case you have outsourcing but you control all the process as they work remotely on your servers. And every startup has a problem with building a team, so it's a way to make it much cheaper for small businesses.

P.S. Excuse me for my mistakes, i am improving my English.

 

[Ashley_Price]

Welcome to UKBF.

How would the finding an online team be different to using Linkedin, which is free (so you can't get much cheaper).

As for a "virtual desktop" there is already Google Drive (previously Google Docs) for word processing, spreadsheet, etc., work and you can now download Drive to your PC as well.

 

[Steves99]

The goal is not just to find workers online but to create an online office. The site is a warrantor of a pay-money relations between employer and employee. It gives much easier and cheaper way to organize working prosess for startups. And it specifically designed to have everything inside the website (and app) so you don't need to search through different websites and software.
As for the site commission, there are different options. But i would like to stop on the one where we would take the commission from each payment employer making to employee.

 

[garyk]

You mean like

http://www.techcofounder.com/

or

http://www.younoodle.com/

or

https://www.founder2be.com/

 

[altwebdesign]

You mean like

http://www.techcofounder.com/

or

http://www.younoodle.com/

or

https://www.founder2be.com/

Exactly what I was thinking!

 

[Findermonkey]

Just because there are others who are already making money from your idea does not mean you shouldn't do it.

As Felix Dennis said, make sure your on the right mountain. If people are already there then it might be because there's money to be made.

Welcome to the forum and good luck with your ventures.

 

[garyk]

Just because there are others who are already making money from your idea does not mean you shouldn't do it.

As Felix Dennis said, make sure your on the right mountain. If people are already there then it might be because there's money to be made.

Welcome to the forum and good luck with your ventures.

Agreed, doesn't mean you should not do it. But, the days of 'build it and they will come' are long gone.

The OP has a 'network' issue; attracting enough people onto the platform so others join who wont join if nothing is happening.

Gary

 

[Gecko001]

The goal is not just to find workers online but to create an online office. The site is a warrantor of a pay-money relations between employer and employee. It gives much easier and cheaper way to organize working prosess for startups. And it specifically designed to have everything inside the website (and app) so you don't need to search through different websites and software.
As for the site commission, there are different options. But i would like to stop on the one where we would take the commission from each payment employer making to employee.

Who will be in control here - the site or the employer? With an ordinary freelance site with escrow accounts such as elance the employer is always in control even though the site pays the freelancer and guarantees payment. The OP proposes an "online office" where presumably all employees can contact each other and discuss the work. This is different from a freelance site, but is that healthy? How can you stop them from doing deals among themselves. What about confidentiality? Even if you get them to sign non disclosure documents, can you enforce these if you are just a startup working with someone in another country?

 

[Alan]

Just because there are others who are already making money from your idea does not mean you shouldn't do it.

Just do it better.

 

[David White]

I get the idea of your team building selling point, but you will find that many businesses who need such a team have already been outsourcing such projects to other countries like the Ukraine or India where labour is cheaper.