Has anyone actually followed through with something like this? As in, came up with a name, developed a suitable concept afterwards, and actually went ahead and did it?
How did that turn out?
I knew I wanted to make a free last.fm but with no code and a name I started it, crowdfunded the domain and began code a few fays later.
5 years in, still going, lots of users, well supported by the apps that might support it.
We built it at a 48 hour hackathon and won some kind of prize, so overall it worked pretty well, but we weren't all that invested in the concept.
An app to sell anything. Inspired by the Octopus payment system in Hong Kong, I've reasoned that technically, why can you buy or sell anything with your mobile device.
I kind of flippantly said (something along the lines of) "I should do a comic about living with my medical condition. No, it should really be just a comic about my life with a main character kind of like Mae West, only opposite. Say, Mae East." And my son rebutted "November West."
I did an initial drawing of a comic that weekend. I bought the domain name six months later. I then spent a few years trying to flesh out what to put into the comic. (I was working for BigCo and it took up most of my mental landscape, so all my initial comic ideas sounded like Dilbert meets The Nightmare Before Christmas or something really macabre like that. I was afraid I would get fired if my employer discovered it and then I would lose my audience for no longer having a job to bitch about acridly.)
I eventually did get it off to a very rocky start. It's stalled currently. So not exactly a wild success story at the moment but I have gotten better feedback on it than other projects I launched in the past. I don't think it's dead yet but I don't yet have much to show.