Six ultra-disruptive web companies you don’t know yet
April 26th, 2008 by Benjamin
Pottyfeed
Elevator pitch: broadcast your toilet breaks. Optionally, podcast the splashing noise. Think Twitter meets your toilet.
Our verdict: next year we’ll all be doing a number 2.0 and subscribing on our iPood.
RichardQuest.tv
Elevator pitch: follow CNN’s Richard Quest live on your laptop or cellphone as he wanders round Central Park with pockets full of methamphetamine and a noose attached to his testicles. Think Robert Scoble crossed with your very worst nightmares.
Our verdict: ask us when we’ve stopped shuddering.
Getahitman.com
Elevator pitch: post a job, hitmen bid against each other in the only way they know how. A Google Maps mashup allows you to find contract kills near you; get paid with Google Checkout when your contract checks out. Think oDesk meets Grosse Pointe Blank.
Our verdict: this should kill the market.
Dictatr
Elevator pitch: long on psychotic sociological ideas but short on manpower? Crowdsourcing a fascist government regime is as easy as tagging your enemies. Think flashmobs meet Anschluss.
Our verdict: sure to take over by 2010.
AmIABetterDirectorThanUweBollOrNot
Elevator pitch: Uwe Boll movies are shown alongside homemade videos of overweight, bearded men making tortuous political rants, fluffy kittens making biscuits and babies laughing uncontrollably. The public votes on which is the more engaging, and one lucky winner gets to take the German film director on in hand to hand combat. Think YouTube meets prime time reality TV meets movies made for tax reasons.
Our verdict: evil awakens.
PrivacyInvasionSupersite
Elevator pitch: enter invasive details about your own life and the lives of your friends and family, ignoring the fact that some of the site’s early investors have connections with the CIA, and that your data is both being mined and sold individually to commercial organisations. Think … oh, wait.
Our verdict: hey, it’s a revenue model that works. Kiss your right to a private life goodbye. Poke!
May 9th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Hey.Do these places actually excist.I need a hitman to kill my ex and his new girlfriend that is my ex-best friend.She is so much uglier than me and is always hitting and yelling at him.
May 20th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
“free my people now you fraky white-boys!!!”
May 28th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
what is all this all about why do we have to be mean why cant we just get along i mean its just a website for god sacs gosh dang be nice for once in your lifes
May 29th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Re: Uwe Boll, that’s not very fair since at one point he was a respectable amateur boxer. He beat the snot out of the guy who runs SomethingAwful. Which, incidentally, is a really fun video.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Hey, R, was that video made for tax purposes? Maybe that’s the guy who won Season 1 of AmIABetterDirector….nothing in the pitch said you get to win….