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.

2 comments

  1. Matt

    Interesting idea, will people be able to submit others or only themselves?

  2. 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.

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