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I have a quick question for you

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I would like to create a one-click e-commerce including the winning products (taken for adspy tools)

I feel like the idea is a dumb idea?

One click for the user to buy? One click for you to make the whole site?

One click for the user to create an e-commerce (including the products taken from asdspy like minea). Is it a weird idea?

Not necessarily but I don’t think it’s going to be that profitable for them.

I’m aware of people, circa 2010, building out huge sites where they started with affiliate offers and automatically generated thousands and thousands of landing pages and also had automated SEO spam to drive traffic. Some people made money that way but the affiliate plans that work are the sketchy ones (adult friend finder was probably the best at that time) whereas for normal products with Amazon or EBay you didn’t make a lot.

I think tools to make web shops quickly could be a good idea and probably not that hard but driving traffic is another thing. By 2011 the serious SEO spammers I knew had mostly switched to running paid ads, there was one guy who would charge $10,000 on his dad’s Amex to run ads, make it back in 3 days, pay the card and repeat. It is fine and good when it works but it is competitive. You need capital to start and could lose it if things went wrong.

I have not been involved in that sort of thing for a long time but I do know it is not easy.

Wow, thank you so much, Paul Houle, for these clarifications; they are priceless to me. The challenges are as follows: - Driving traffic to the newly created shops - The low potential user profits - The competition in this field - The capital required to start - Possibly other challenges that haven't been identified yet

Since it's quicker and safer to challenge ideas before implementing them, do you think that some variations of this idea could mitigate as many of these challenges as possible? I don't want to bother you, and I'm really grateful for your previous response.

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Yes, it is a dumb idea.

Thank you for your response. I feel like creating a solution to create "e-commerce stores in one click with pre-imported products" is kind of impossible.

I'm looking for a SaaS idea that's worth it. Do you think there are alternatives to this idea that could be interesting?

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