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I got interested in programming in high school and I got purchased my first personal with scholarship money after I graduated in 2005. I did a lot of experimenting with different languages and gradually got superior at php/mysql applications. After about 3 years of playing around with my scripts I naturally wanted to build a website. I started small; login/logout scripts, then I figured out how to upload pics and videos and even converting videos to flash in the process. I built a web crawler and a easy search engine. I won 3rd place in yahoo’s hack week at georgia tech with a flex application I built. Then I started to make an substitute to craigslist, but after a few thousand lines of code I began to feel like no one wants to use my stuff, besides there is kijiji, which is already better, so I went back to the drawing board. I thought job search engines are crap, so maybe I can make a superior one. I worked and worked and had the basics online, but I shot myself down again and figured monster is too huge of a competiter. Then I started to make rss feed service, got a basic site setup, but I swiftly found that that area was dominated by feedburner. My next idea was to build a dating site. I built lots of features, search results were sorted by compatibility and everything, but I just could not bring myself to put it on the web because its been done by so many other companies that I can hardly contend with, plus I want to do something original. So, I started to make wedding planner service, nope, weddingwire has that on lock down. I thought I could make a collaborative painting tool, webcanvas already did it. Tried to make a tutorial database, ehow has it already. It seems like I am incapable of coming up with something original, and even if I did, I hardly have the confidence to go through with it. I am a bit of a loner so I do not have a handy co-founder. I know I have the programming skills to make great services, but I am terrible at design and I have no money to find help. I get so frustrated when I think about how crowded the web is and that there is no room for tiny ol me. My dream is to make a web service that reaches millions of people and changes the world, but I feel like all the good ideas are taken and its all just too huge for me to tackle. Any suggestions?

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