I would like to know what application be in a look a like or something out of the blue, will kick in users and not specific about vc funding, but yes will help with a point.
Thanks Jean
Chalk this up as a loss. You probably learned a lot doing it, and thats what you should take away from it. Without a sizable user base you won't get funding for this website. You need to satisfy a need that isn't being satisfied, or satisfy an existing need better than it is currently being satisfied.
If you blog is doing well by all means move your focus to that while you look for a more original idea to implement. I hope things go well for you, I can sympathize with your situation, as I too have learned that "If you build it they will come" isn't always quite true.
by the way your blog is offline?
I think the way to look for the future is like this: find something that everyone uses, and think of what unexamined assumptions we are making about it.
For an example, look at how comments work in blogs, maybe we could make a more localized comment system (you can make your comment close to the context you want to commenta bout), or at least inserting comment footnotes.
Essentially, look for places where the "proper" shape and form for an idea have crystalized, and then find a way to do it differently. At this point I don't think that web innovation is bounded by technology (horizontal scaling to build massive and efficient systems is a reality, albeit a n occasionally unpleasant reality for the implementors), but more by ideas.
Development frameworks (Rails, Django, TurboGears, CakePHP, et al) continue to trivialize internet development, so I think we'll continue moving towards an era where (for internet applications) ideas and design are the limiting factors rather than technology.