Tuesday, October 16, 2007

www.natisni.si

  • Ever got pissed off when you needed to go somewhere and buy a legal form of some kind?
  • I certainly was...so why not be a good person and put all these legal forms online for free. By free I mean without the need to pay for them.
  • By using clever business models from other web portals (banners + ads+ payable links + subscription), the costs of maintaining the system (probably quite low) could be covered.
  • Now all that needs to be figured out is how to get other people to help like on wikis and how to ensure that good published legal forms can't be undermined. Expert revisions would also be welcomed.
  • But the question remains...would people tolerate some ads in order to get free online legal forms?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Adds have become such a common thing most users don't even notice them.

For an additional source of revenue you could do something like Amazon Mechanical Turk where users pay a small fee for help filling out forms (the fee gets split between you and the helper). Revenue-sharing is also a possible solution for attracting user-generated content.

Probably the hardest problem is quality assurance. One option is editorial model but unfortunately experts don't grow on trees. An alternative is to "harness the wisdom of crowds" (and it's buzzword compliant to boot!) via ranking/voting but this brings it's own set of problems mostly dealing with fraud detection.