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Are you unemployed? Were you fired from your job as an accountant at a Fortune 500 company? Looking for a good way to make money, but don’t want to get back in the rat race? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you should consider building a WEB APP!

Web Applications are EASY to build! Anyone can do it!

First, you need an idea. This can be the hardest part. Basically, you just want to think about something people do every day that you can do better.
Here are some ideas to get you started:

• web-based makeup mirror (requires a webcam)
• sea-monkeys…give them facebook pages, make them twitter…put them up for adoption.
• a calculator, with lots and lots of ajax….and really big buttons.

These are just a few ideas, but you get the picture. Take some time coming up with your idea, and be patient! You have to refine the idea before you waste time building something no one will ever use. Take at least 30 minutes to decide.

Once you’ve decided on what your highly profitable Web App is going to do, you have to build it! This is the easiest part. You don’t even have to know how to write code. Really! There are new programming languages that don’t even require complicated things like squiggly brakets {} or dollar signs $.  Thanks to the magic of Ruby on Rails, if you can write a grocery list, you can write a Web App. Seriously!

Do you know how to view the source code for an HTML page? Great! That means you know how to design a website! Now, I know, designing things is complicated, but don’t worry about it! NO ONE DESIGNS THEIR OWN WEBSITES ANYMORE! Seriously! All you need is a Template. There are even WEB APPS to build Templates for WEB APPS! Totally meta! Gnarly!

So, you’ve got your ruby, you’ve got your template….you’re almost done! Now, you need a LOGO! Most people say you should hire a designer to get a Logo done professionally, but you don’t want to spend any money out of pocket, do you? I mean, what are you, Mother Teresa?!? Hell no! I recommend you just rip one off for now, and once you make some revenue, you can buy some cheap stock Logo from istockphoto.com.

Remember, in order to maximize Web App profits, you need to always be vigilant so that no corners escape uncut. When building your Web App, you should be sure to try and burden yourself with as many of the details as possible. You need to be prepared to be the programmer, the tester, the designer, the marketer and the support staff, ALL IN ONE! But don’t get stressed out about handling a big workload, because it’s not like you have to do ANY of those things at 100% efficiency, as long as you’re the only one doing them. The people who will use your Web App are just nameless, faceless drones anyways; it’s not like you owe them timely responses to their emails. Always remember that your users are eternally indentured to you in exchange for access to your Web App.

OK, so you’ve got your Template, you’ve got your Logo……..it’s time to do some programming! First, you want to download as many plugins and gems as possible. The more the better, because the more gems you have, the less code you have to write. Remember when your teacher crushed your dreams and told you that there are no unique ideas left, that everything has already been done? Well, when it comes to Gems, its true! There is a Gem or Plugin for every possible thing you could ever conceive of wanting to do – now, or in the future. So basically, just get as many Gems and Plugins as possible, and just start plugging them in wherever you need content.

Look at you! You go-getter! You’ve just programmed your first Web App! It’s going to be the BEST CALCULATOR EVER! Don’t worry about scaling it up. If your users ever start calculating pi, you can just use the Cloud, man! The Cloud is where it’s at! In case you haven’t heard of the Cloud yet, I’ll tell you a bit about it. The Cloud is this place in the Amazon Basin, a humid, godless, no-mans-land inhabited by under paid savages (Amazonians). Anyways, the Cloud is like this giant parking garage, but instead of cars, they’ve parked hundreds and hundreds of servers which they’ve woven together with millions of long, tangled fibreoptic wires (hence the name ‘the Cloud’). Anyways, you just email your program to the Amazonians, and they’ll put your program on a piece of the cloud, giving you the ability to add as many mongrel instances to your server cluster as your heart desires. Scaling?!?! What Scaling?!?!

Now that you’ve got your Template, and your Logo and your Program on the Cloud, you’re ready to start marketing!!! This part is really really easy. You just need to stir the pot a little bit, & kick up a little media interest. For example, let’s say one of your Virtual Sea-Monkeys ends up having to see a Substance Abuse Counselor…..that’s marketing gold! Big-mouthed bloggers love stories like that! The more sensational the better, especially because people will put your media story on sites like Digg, or StumbleUpon. These sites will send you visitors who will really take the time to read your story, visit your site, interact with your product, and develop long-lasting, meaningful connections with your brand. You just have to keep your eyes open for marketing opportunities!

By now, thanks to your Web App, you’re probably well on your way to dealing with your delinquent mortgage payments and are no longer dodging your relatives. Congratulations! Feel free to send your former boss a cruel and insensitive e-card from someecards.com, because You’ve Arrived!!! You’re a big web success story! Expect to hear from Inc. Magazine within minutes.

But! But! But! Don’t stop there! This is just the beginning! Now that you’ve seen how easy it is to create one Web App, create more! Don’t worry about the Web Apps that you’re already managing, it’s OK to let them slide. If you want, you can start an affiliate program and get affiliates to keep marketing your old, stale Web Apps while you’re busy building new ones! You’ll want to get an Email Autoresonder so that you’re not burdened by time consuming support requests to have subscriptions canceled, you’ve got better things to do! You’re an entrepreneur!