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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
19. How many projects have you started and never finished? How many of your projects have failed vs how many of your projects made you money?
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LMAO You see what I did back there?
Seriously I can not honestly count how many projects actually have fully seen the light of day, it's NOT that I get side-tracked, it's not that I do not have the ambition, in fact it's quite the opposite (ask anyone who really knows me lol) MY biggest problem is being the army-of-one kind of guy, as well as having to pretty much live check to check to get by, so I get this killer idea I start it, almost get it ready to launch OR I DO get it launched and then.....
um.... I gotta pay all the bills.... I gotta get the kid new school clothes...... family crisis there goes all the savings.
And I'm sure I'm not alone here, I'm almost willing to bet there are MORE people here alone, that fit the above paragraph, but unlike a lot of you (no offense lol) I don't care if I admit this or not lol.
When it comes to MY OWN projects I flack... or is it flake lol, IF the project is an actual J.O.B. that's always been a diff story.
I'll give you a few examples of what's sitting on my back-burner (and IF you steal them, throw me a bone for the idea lol)
"All Adult Portals"
Years ago I hooked up with a few people and pitched them my idea about making "free sites" diff, and to also revamp the entire tired ass methods of promoting sponsors, the idea was to combine tgp, free site and link lists into one site... one site per niche.... all linking back to the main portal... the portal would take user submissions to feed the fire, and everyone could have links to their sponsors
Was a GREAT IDEA, but I never was able to get anyone on board (it all relied on USER SUB CONTENT lol)
"Loki-Radio" Pretty self explanatory,
"The Stroke Show" This one was a blow to me! I had come up with a weekly TV Show that would be CGI / Live Action Think Conan O'Brian meets Space Ghost cost to cost.
The show was hosting by a CGI talking cat named "Stroke The Pussy" and each show he would interview a porn star (Via a video screen like on Space Ghost)
Each episode would also have "commercial spots" for pornsites or whatever
HBO had expressed interest in seeing a completed episode.
The problems, were First I could not find ANYONE to get on board on the project... (One thing that has ALWAYS bugged the fuck out of me, non of you guys seem to want to be "the first" to do something lol)
Secondly Actually animating and rendering the show was next to impossible for me to do alone, it took me 3 months JUST to render out the "Sample Video" and when I finally posted it on the boards, no one seemed to care, so reluctantly I shelved the Idea
"WickedPuppets" This was the second reincarnation of "The Stroke Show" I revamp the show so instead of it being CGI/Real it would be Puppets / Real people, HBO STILL showed an interest in the project, but I ran into even more of the same issues as with "The Stroke Show" I shelved that project as well
"Resource Boards" THIS one just plain PISSED ME OFF lol, I started a site that would encompass ALL the webmaster boards, (Think hahahahahahahahahahahaha on steroids!) ALL I NEEDED was an RSS link from EVERY BOARD to make the custom scripts I had made work right, BUT could I get the board owners to get me the RSS links LMAO NO! Sadly I Turned Resource Boards over to someone else and walked away.
"Loki Ca$h" I had decided to 'quit' the 3D Toon niche and head back to where I first began in the mid 90's shooting real people, I scouted out a handful of models, did marathon shoots, spent close to 20k on locations, clothing, props etc etc and got 3 sites ready to roll out, (I almost even became content again lol) RIGHT before the public launch 2 of the models flaked on me and quit, 1 demanded their content be pulled down "or else" 1 vanished, and the last one I was dating and she just got lazy and would not shoot anymore.....
Because I was TRYING to make each site VERY interactive the ONLY way it would have worked out is if I myself handled all the interactions with the members, OR I hired out people (and spent more money I did not have) to do it for me,
you can guess what I ended up doing lol, CLOSED IT!
There were more things I'm sure but those were my biggest "hopes and fails" at some point down the road I may resurrect some of those IF I find the capital to make it happen.
Now as for Wins Vs Looses, that's a tough call, cause pretty much everything I've actually gotten to release has had SOME sort of success, and the stuff that did not go live, or saw completion of course did not make any money lol.
-Loki-