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I would say think of something very difficult to do, that a lot of people would love to have, and work on it hard so that it far surpasses the quality of any other versions of the same thing (if there are any other.) A good example, vBulletin. They took something that was very difficult to write, worked on it and worked on it until it was near perfection, and now it is probably what every forum writer tries to copy.
Kyle's idea is probably a very good one. I don't know how many companies (if any) there are out there that give (or sell) shopping cart services. You might want to do some research first, but if you find that you can write something better than anything out there right now, do it. Kyle also had some great ideas about improvements, though user bandwidth might be a problem if you go too overboard with atmosphere. Then, once you have a bug-free (or almost bug-free) and user-friendly (and admin-user-friendly) application, create documentation and a website for it then release it. You could even write a windows application for the admin to make the setup process even easier.
Anyway, something like this would definately take 2-2 1/2 months and maybe even more. Oh and maybe you can include other easier things with your shopping cart program, like a guestbook program, a forum program, and a news editing program (like newsPro). Maybe I'm going a little overboard here, but you could even allow people to have their own mySQL database on your server to make it easier for them since free web hosting services that give you mySQL access are hard to find.
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