- Creation date: 2011
- Technologies: PHP + MySQL + HTML + jQuery
After watching a news story about the expected increase in cosmetic and plastic surgeries, I thought that it would be a good idea to create a website that would offer as much information as possible about this topic in order to grow my network of websites and hopefully increment my revenue.
In all honesty though, my initial idea was not just to create a website, but to create a business around the website, one that would organise trips to get surgery in countries where they are cheaper, as I thought that more and more people would want that in the future – a prediction that, to some extent, turned out to be right.
So, what better way to start than by having a directory of clinics? With some luck, maybe I could eventually secure deals with some of the clinics, and then I would just need to keep going from there. Easy!
In retrospect, what was I even thinking? Who knows. But somehow, I pushed through and created the site anyway.
This website, which I developed from scratch using PHP, HTML and JavaScript, would offer not only a catalogue of clinics classified by type and location (the idea is that people would be able to see the available treatments from each one, to rate them, etc), but also articles about different kinds of treatments, advice about beauty and health, and even a “questions & answers” section, amongst others. I really went all in, there was plenty of functionality.
Unfortunately, this project was way too ambitious for me, not only because of the huge amount of content and programming that it required, but also because I didn't really know anything about the subject!
So, to no one surprise, it never really took off properly.
I tried to be very careful with the SEO, but it still wasn't good enough. Plus, the content was lacking (trying to collect the information wasn't easy), and the concept the project was founded upon probably didn't make that much sense to start with anyway. As a result, I eventually decided to shut it down. Another one down the drain!
