During my university days, I actually tried to do a start up with 2 other friends I got to know in a technopreneurship class. Well, those were the times when the dot com boom was still raving… and everybody had a start-up idea somehow. We too had ours. We wanted to do a discount site. A site which will agglomerate all the coupon vouchers of Singapore. NTUC, Carrefour, etc… always take up half page ads in newspaper to lure customers in with special buys…. but what happens if say.. the customer lost their copy of the newspaper? Wouldn’t it be nice if they can just go to a e-coupon site to print out the coupon and claim the discounts? Wouldn’t it be nice… if we can sign up at a site to say what kind of products we frequently purchase and be notified of it once it comes on sale?
E-coupons are coming alive once again in the States… maybe its time to start something similar in Singapore.
Why didn’t it succeed during the boom?