How many times I thought that I just had the perfect business idea, only to find out that either it has already been implemented, or that something similar is launched in a few months after I thought of it?

Well, this time I am more “hurt” than ever, almost felt that I was cheated.

http://www.411song.com/

This site offers the service that you can call in and play a tune for 15 seconds, and it will be able to identify the song for you.

My idea originally, is to be able to send in any type of analog signal, then the service will provide you with song information, and all artists who have played/sang it. It will be a nice feature for finding song’s original singers and backgrounds.

This time, just like the numberless times in the past year, that my idea is implemented by somebody else, more or less similar to what I had in mind. The thing that made me the saddest, is not that somebody gets to make money out of it while I cannot. It is that even if I have a better “solution” or “service” in the future, those people who came up with the simpler solutions would have already patented it, making my idea less original and profitable.

This is really lame.