- Date: 24th February 2010
- Comments: 2 Comments
I have been a little bit bored lately, and felt like I needed to come up with a new pet project. I was in a pub one day, having a drink with a few friends – one of whom said something along the lines of, ‘it’s really annoying – there are all these creative people in the area, but no one knows about each other.’ With this, I came up with the idea of Find Creativity.
Find Creativity is a directory website listing creative people in your area – linking you with people you may never knew existed. The main focus behind Find Creativity:
- Make you aware of other creatives in your area that you may want to work with, or get help from, on your next project.
- Increase your publicity on the web.
- Let others know if you’re available to work. Or if you’re not, when you will be available.
- Provide simple user profiles.
You can see this website as a streamlined version of Yell.com – with a specific focus on the creative industry; focusing on the following professions:
- Web designers
- Web developers
- Photographers
- Digital Artists
- Painters
- Video/Film editors
- Musicians
- Software developers
- Publishers
- Printer designers
- and more…
These listings will be carefully monitored to ensure a high quality and acurate directory – you won’t be finding entires of your local plumber in here, or a web designer from London spamming up the Scarborough section.
I plan on launching this project on 1st April. Keep an eye out in the blog to check for any updates.
Matt
Interesting idea, will people be able to submit others or only themselves?
Simon
I think, after some careful consideration, allowing users to only publish themselves will be the best approach – because it will contain things like phone numbers, availability for work etc. – things that other people are unlikely to know.
Plus, I’m already planning additional features after the release – such as a PMing system.