I quit my business january the first. I sold people. Actual people including kids, grandma's, six-pack's and what not as models for agency's and photographers. My company was different: You could select people like you can cars: Size, color, tattoos and a location. I sold people including all the royalties, like a Shutterstock for people with a fixed price (no matter how well known the client is). I had everything worked out: a simple signup process, legal protection for models (no nudity) and a legal framework for clients and my own company.

I upset the expensive agencies (boy were some mad at me), but ultimately failed because I underestimated how far people will go to get something for "free". People would rather spend 8 of their own hours finding friends, neighbors, relatives to use as a model, than select a perfect local model and pay him or her a few bucks. I work for a design agency for the biggest names you can think of but even those PR-people would rather throw away 8 of their own hours and work with shitty contracts if it could save them a few dimes.

Of course becoming blind didn't help. Thank God the doctors got my vision back, but if you're a one-person-company shit like that can certainly kill your company. But that's not why I failed. I failed because I thought I could use greed and let people save a lot of money. Turns out people were even more greedy (or dumber?) than I thought.

A few screenshots (as the site is offline): http://imgur.com/4JMDS http://i.imgur.com/63e4Z.png