- Social Shopping - Learnt this the hard way, (May be ahead of it's time).
- Rivals to Google - DDG and Bing seem to be doing a decent job though.
- Foursquare for something - Foursquare is a great service but checkins do not work in every space unlike many think.
- Most Messaging Apps - Facebook and SMS are taking this space over and startups trying to replicate BBM just miss the main points.
- Any App/Site which just adds some Social Feature expecting to push them ahead of the competition. We are not the same as everyone we have on Facebook.
- Social Browsers - Look at Rockmelt, their iPhone effort is shameful and Flock is Dead, RIP.
- Facebook Rival - People watch the Social Network and think it's that easy to kill facebook just by "telling their friends about it".
- YouTube Rivals - Unless they hit a niche (A la Vimeo) they have no use as YT offers up to 4k resolution, 3D video, partnerships and lots of content.
iPhone App generators - there're enough of them and they all produce default apps that suck.
Q&A-Portals - because there're enough of them and it takes very long to make them good. And there's Stakcexchange and Quora.
ToDo-Lists - because either they're too simple to fit in people's workflow or too complex to be usable and it involves creating apps on all different platforms
Anything that involves syncing or developing for every platform - cause syncing is hard and developing for different platforms is nothing that a small startup can handle
Q&A-Portals - because there're enough of them and it takes very long to make them good. And there's Stakcexchange and Quora.
ToDo-Lists - because either they're too simple to fit in people's workflow or too complex to be usable and it involves creating apps on all different platforms
Anything that involves syncing or developing for every platform - cause syncing is hard and developing for different platforms is nothing that a small startup can handle
- Anything that makes programming "easy for non-programmers or businesspeople"
- Micropayments
- T-Shirts (except Threadless (and Busted Tees ... thanks Adam Kazwell))
- Recommendations based on what your friends like
- RSS readers
- Find nearby people to meet/date through your mobile phone
- Anything involving paying people to look at ads
- Sites that purport to measure someone's trustworthiness as a standalone service, separate from any other context or functionality
- Customized personalized newspapers focusing on mainstream news
- Craigslist killers - but not sites that attack individual categories on Craigslist (see diagram in this question's summary)
- To-do lists - there are tons of these, but everyone's workflow tends to be so personalized and specific to that person that none of them really catch on
- Most blogs that are started with the intent of being businesses
- Business that let consumers scan some kind of code, number or barcode in real life, with some special device, or lately their phone, and they get sent a URL, ad or coupon in return
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