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This is more marketing related, but I'd find a type of music that has rabid fans and little in way of lyrics online. I'd find their preferred forum and frequent it, and try to build a community tool that they can use to make lyrics for their music make sense. You're going to experience some genre drift and as this occurs more and more people will hopefully use your service.

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This may be myself directly. I listen to a lot of bands that aren't popular in north america but have a solid following internationally with very little lyrics support (some of them have good lyrics support, but aren't proliferated across lyrics websites with accuracy).

What do you think of trying to create micro-communities? I'm concerned doing something like that may end up making the website too large to deal with.

Micro-communities are dangerous. Basically what happens is a separation of small differences. So what should be one community with say 20 - 30 bands all in the same genre becomes 20 or 30 communities all on individual brands.

What are you goals for the project anyway? Is it to learn, make money, find a wife?

A bit of learning, mostly from the experience in a task like this. Plus something else to put "out there" attached to myself.

The money would be nice, but my goals for that are secondary.

Okay, awesome. I think its an awesome project for learning. You'll get community development, coding, marketing, databases, ad words experience.

I would be surprised if you make much money off of it.

pg warns against the music business, and I think he's right on a lot of things. But I think you should throw it out there and see if you get any traction.

Honestly, I have my doubts of this being a real pain point. It's like, wouldn't it be awesome if lyrics sites were better, but I'm going to go to the one that has 100% of the songs I search for.

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