Ask HN: Any chance of monetizing this webapp(solarpower, price)?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=305642As a sideproject a year ago to learn Python and learn more about solar-energy I created a webapp that compares prices of solar-energy equipment/parts.
I did the basic work and presentation but never made it into a "professional" one, meaning optimized, good-looking etc.
I now have some time over and I wonder if I should finish it.
There (obviously) already are services like this though, the best ones covering all kinds of green services.
None of them are that easy to find and to the point. There isn't a killer green energy price comparisment service nor a solar only one.
But is this monetizeable? Clearly someone going to such a site is probably looking to buy eventually but are they just comparing and then buying in the "real world" instead?
Can it generate enough traffic? It's not like solar energy is that big (yet) but since I'm not selling, just showing(or will show) ads from the whole world there might be a market?
On the other hand for most people ordering stuff from other countries isn't an alternative so I might have to do by country. Just that there perhaps isn't that many options for smaller countries...
Is this idea worth finishing? Do you believe it has any potential?