Ask HN: Please advise on my Twitter clone idea

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17 years ago

I have two questions to Hacker News. I'm not a programmer or an engineer but inspired by reading HN I want to start a simple web service. What can be simpler than a twitter clone! My idea is to change the question to What did you buy today? The business model is one time registration fee of $2. This will have two purposes: to make sure that the user is female, because the service will be limited to female shoppers who want to share their shopping experience; and to eliminate spam. What do you think about the idea?

I found two twitter clone makers http://www.floopo.com/ and StatusNet (used to be Laconica) http://status.net/?source=laconica. Floopo appears to be simpler to set up. Which one would you choose?

Top 250 twitter clone sites http://www.honeytechblog.com/top-250-list-of-twitter-clones-sites/

There is a blog called "What did you buy today?" http://www.obsessiveconsumption.typepad.com/ but I couldn't find a twitter clone answering to this question.

Of course, Twitter is already used to share shopping news: http://twitter.com/#search?q=bought so there may be a use for a specialized status update for shopping.

Thank you.

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