What Type of Web Presence if Starting Today?

Where would you put your efforts?

[keyplyr]

If you had the resources, including the skillset, what type of web endeavors would you put your effort towards if starting out today?

• App development
• Games
• Marketing metric products
• eCommerce: selling product(s) or service
• Web development & SEO services
• Consulting
• Information site
• Information site w/ Ad campaigns
• For-profit Youtube channel
• Not-for-profit Youtube channel
• Self-promotion (career or social life)
• Ideology promotion
• Community participation
• Fund raising

Or what else?

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[tangor]

If starting out (meaning we don't know what we know), the question is what is easiest for the new kid on the block.

If asking if professionals had unlimited money to do get on with new projects, that's a different kettle of fish.

Given YouTube and Facebook getting into the public censor/morality business I'd take that into consideration.

Apps is a movement away from websites (walled gardens).

Games only if you're a gamer (as gamers are a tight clique and can be vicious to outsiders.

Ecommerce for the not faint of heart. The gazillions of same is tough to advance, UNLESS you have a primary product that no one else has and can make it stick.

Consulting is always possible, as long as you already know all there is to know and have the people skills to not only share that knowledge, but command a premium doing do.

As presented, it's a what if we started over where would we be.... and for me ... Some of the above and a few to avoid.

Meanwhile, what I'm doing now is doing fine, and combines many of the above.

New kids, however,, will always have a steep hill simply because they ARE the new kids. Staring at the bottom. Having to claw their way up.

[tangor]

My post above is seeking clarification on what the forum "new to web development" is about.

For the new guys? Or the old guys trying new technology?

[keyplyr]

If I were to start fresh on the web today, I would focus specifically on App development. That's where the money is IMO. I am in the process of migrating a couple of my online tools to stand alone web apps. I know several App developers that have made a killing.

IMO the popularity & significance of webpages are in decline. Web search certainly is... not all the way, but by capita far less searches are performed today than a few years ago; everyone is on Apps & Social Media now. That's where they go first.

[tangor]

Predictions of web decline are premature, but not insignificant. Sometime in the future the web will change. Tomorrow? Probably not. Decade from now? Most likely somewhere in between.

Will it be apps? Possibly, but I see something more personal than that coming up (g and b are working for that all day long, catching up to a and the other a).

If those alphabets are not obvious, think Home Echo Cortana Siri and Cloud. IE, all CENTRALIZED COMPUTING, the END of End Point Processing (web sites) and instituting monthly BILLING. In other words, the end of the wild web we've known and individual entrepreneurship on the "information highway". Gobbled up by Big Box Iron and EDU, MIL, and GOV and the entry point set so high the kiddies can't play anymore. Coming sooner, rather than later.

That's the new web tech coming, and we should brace, and CODE, for it.