I was curious if anyone had an opinion on this ?
I consider myself a one person startup. About a year ago, while waiting for carry out at the local BoneFish here in Frederick, it struck me, my idea. Some say the best services are the ones you need yourself, and thats exactly what my idea was.

So I started keeping notes in my moleskin, kind of random thoughts about what I wanted and needed in this new service. After a bit of that, I started to put something a little more formal down. On three powerpoint files I had :
1. FrontEnd Design Concept
2. Backend Design Concept
3. Business Model
It was all very simple and kind of crystallized my thoughts and plans.
I am a tech person, but I am no developer, more of a reverse engineering hacker .... So now what was I to do ? I had no team, developers, marketers, or otherwise. Just me.
So I put my plan on elance and gathered bids for development of my idea.
Long story short, I spent @2400 to get my alpha site up and running, another $500/year for my dedicated virtual server and I am now theoretically a viable web service provider.
I have the same development team working on the second phase of the site to get it to where I will launch it, officially. This has all been self funded.
Now I do have the issue of marketing and getting the word out there. But with great events like the Web Innovators Group in Boston and others here in the area, I can feasibly show and gather momentum for my product.

So I wonder if I am in a fantasy land, or with all the tools available to us in this "Flat World" as Thomas Friedman wrote about, do I have a chance ?

I would love to hear everyones thoughts on this.

Thanks for the reply.

As far as the project goes, it is called MyDropBin (www.mydropbin.com). Stop by and check it out. I would love to hear any thoughts.
Like I said, this is like phase 1, phase 2 is where all the features I had in mind will be in.
Check out the blog http://www.mydropbin.com/WordPress/ for a look at the phase 2 features.

Take care

jimmy