Los Angeles based Dreamcrowd wants’ you to share your dreams on its dream sharing community.
Users post their dreams in a similar fashion to a blog or bookmarking site. Other users can then assess the meaning of your dream and the “dreamopedia” automatically provides analysis based on key words from your dream; for example the word kill gives a result of “To dream of manslaughter, signifies fear and scandal.”
Dreamcrowd as a concept comes from wide left field, and yet in the age of Lifecasting it won’t surprise many people; why stop at streaming your waking hours to the web when you can now share your sleeping hours as well. There is something slightly creepy about reading other people’s dreams; is nothing safe from our increasingly voyeuristic society? On the other hand, if you’ve ever wanted your dreams psychoanalysed without the need for a $300 an hour shrink appointment then Dreamcrowd is for you. It’s only a matter of time until someone posts “every night I dream that my startup is acquired by Google”; I wonder what the dreamopedia will make of that?
Duncan, it would be even more fun to just have a post title for an idea as good as this:) Needs no further explanation really.
Please tell me:
– This wasn’t VC funded
– That there is a real revenue model
I can’t believe there is an actual site for this.
What’s next? Maybe we can have a digg for dreams?
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m usually chasing tall blonde’s in Google logoed bikinis. Anybody at DreamCrowd care to interpret? lol
you have to be absolutely kidding — what’s the over/under on the chances this makes it to the deadpool.
Not every freakin site on the Internet is made with million dollar dreams. In fact, most aren’t.
Some things should just be enjoyed for what they are:)
is there anything more boring than when someone tells you about a dream they had. gah.
@Zaid….I agree with you if it’s a hobby, but most sites on TC are not.
I like to eat and pay my bills , so I need revenue. My investors expect a ROI on their investment, so I need a revenue model that shows growth.
What’s wrong with champagne wishes and caviar dreams? (sorry robin leach)
ChandraBajpai,
Is advertising not a legitimate revenue model in your opinion?
@ pud
A roomful of people who are actually interested in other people’s dreams. Really scraping the bottom of the lifecasting barrel here.
eh, some people aren’t looking to make millions, and if the site like that takes off, it should still turn a 100K or so a year profit. Plenty of money for sitting on your ass and doing nothing
Heh, I always have to roll my eyes when someone deigns to tell someone else something they dreamed. An observation that I made a long time ago is that there’s nothing people care less about than what you dreamed. People’s eyes just glaze over every time, no matter how cool your dream was.
Whether you’ve also realized this and long ago quit bothering people with your dreams would be a good test of your social intuition. As for the founders of this company, they’ve obviously got none.
The people who care most about dreams are the ones posting them (DreamCrowd). Then ones who care most about photos are the ones posting them (Flickr). The ones who care most about what your are doing are the ones posting them (Twitter), etc. The truth is no one else cares about the stuff you post so people posting are wasting their frickin time. Are people that stupid and naive to think that anyone cares what you’re doing at any given moment?… HEY WORLD I’M TYPING A COMMENT ON TECH CRUNCH RIGHT NOW. So what? STUPID world we live in… actually gullible and foolish are more the words. But it makes people filthy rich by taking advantage of puppet follower masses who will believe anything. So DreamCrowd… GOT FOR IT!!!
Giggity-giggity-Gay!
The site uses google ads, that alone is enough to sustain a very healthy income. And please don’t come talking about how adsense ea is not a real business model. I already live two years off adsense and other advertising companies.
Lol, i thought of creating a website like this about a year ago. Back then decided not to do it. Im really curious what will become of it. I have you guys bookmarked
You learn something new every day
:
” hamburger
To see or eat a hamburger in your dream, suggests that you are lacking some emotional, intellectual, or physical component you need in order to feel whole again. You may be feeling unsatisfied with some situation or relationship. It is also symbolic of your experiences and how you need to learn from them. Look at the big picture.”
I can see how this site could take off. Everyone dreams and most people share em. now at least i can send a link instead of using my cell phone minutes.
People getting desparate for vc lately.
That every site has a community, to me, shows how inexperienced a lot of people are with the internet in terms of users, business, etc, in my opinion and it just kind of drives me bananas. Not every site has to have a community, social network, etc. There are still a HUGE number of passive users who could care less about sharing, being interactive, etc., and will more than likely only grow as passive entertainment (aka, video) expands and convergence on the back end continues. Statistically, the biggest demographic that does like community and interactivity is ages 18-25 or something (can’t recall the exacts), this means that start ups should really think through who their audience is and if community makes sense. This kind of site could probably do just fine because dream interpretation is appealing to a demographic (probably mostly female, new age, etc.) and i would think personal online dream journals could have legs, but it’s a tiny market in my opinion. I would have built this out to be a full on new age destination site with dream interpretation, astrology or something because I just don’t think you’re going to get numbers on such a narrow, focused niche.
I think the everything-needs-community/social networking is a very niave way for start ups to think. It makes sense for SOME things but it shouldn’t be the end all way you think you’ll build a sticky audience.
Dreamcrowd? Seriously?
tag cloud? check.
featured users? check.
ratings? check.
browse and share generic posted items? check.
another run-of-the-mill social network that has nothing original to offer? check.
my valuation: $25 million, to be acquired by google or ebay sometime this winter.
anyone aftert MLK
– who said “I have a dream..”
– got ignored, for being a cliche`
-RB
There are actually several large and very active forums around dream interpretation/sharing and lucid dreaming. Much more so than you might at first think… try terms like “dream interpretation” or “dream dictionary” in the yahoo search tool. I think you’ll be surprised by the number of monthly searches people are doing for those and similar terms. Old concept, but now Web 2.0′ed.
Dreamcrowd needs to team up with a product like BrilliantDreams.com so members keep having vivid dreams to share! Wow.
@Rick
You’re right. “Dream interpretation” was actually recorded as one of Yahoo’s top 10 search terms a few weeks ago.
I can see how this site could take off. Everyone dreams and most people share em. now at least i can send a link instead of using my cell phone minutes.