Do you think there is still room for another digg-like site ?

There is lots of people looking for digg-like script like pligg, and I was wondering if it still possible to make a big (or even medium) hit with such a concept.

Well, actually I was thinking starting my own, but I don't know if the investment in time and money worth it.

What's your opinion about that ?

 

If it's a niche one you might get some decent traffic

 

Something uber user friendly and not just tech would be a successful one

IT

 

seems like digg are already on it

 

After the Netscape deal, I don't think so! However you can always create a nice tech news site where you will post your own news, just gotta find the right niche! I mean look at Michael Arrington of TechCrunch - he has his website running for a little over a year and already has an alexa rating of around 900, which is pretty damn good! Somebody said he makes like $80,000 per month from that site! Not too bad!

 

I don't think there really is any more room. Kinda like creating another search engine. While Digg isn't as big as Google it sure looks like it will be in another couple of years.

Skinny

 

I think it could work, but it other areas then technology.

 

Actually, this is what I am wondering about.

Digg and most of digg-like sites, most of the time are aimed to geeks.

I'm not sure that people who don't spend half of theirs life on the web, reading and talking about internet and tech stuff would make an audience large enough.

I'm not sure if such site would do well ?

 

I think there are a lot of sites that you'd have to become more popular and better than if you wanted to make it anywhere on that market. Thought people do post to more than or submission site to raise their PR.