Fan History
Fan History is a collaborative project like none other currently serving the fandom community. Its core function is as a wiki which allows members of fandom - men and women, young and old - to actively participate in documenting the history of their various fandoms, share current news and more.
Idea Description
Fan History is a fan run wiki project dedicated to documenting the history of fandom and providing the largest interactive index of fan communities. It gives members of fandom a chance to share current fandom news that may impact people’s experiences in fandom. Fan History users can also promote their own creative projects, and share opinions with fellow fans and alert them to scams and questionable practices encountered within fandom. FH covers several corners of fandom including anime, cartoons, comics, movies, politics, science fiction, sports, television, theater, and video games.
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
If Fan History won the $10,000, we would spend the money on developing content development. The development would largely be focused on the creation of several bots, which would complete several tasks that Fan History has been given permission to do. This includes creating a directory of MediaMiner.Org users.
The money would also be spent on providing some compensation to administrators so they have more time to improve the wiki, making it better. One task that they would would love to compensate them for is monitoring for privacy issues, as this issue is a core concern to some of our contributors and those involved in the fan community.
Vote for it now.
Since wiki's are relatively easy to maintain (and as rlarkin mentioned you can find some good/cheap programmers on craigslist or elance), money would be best spent on getting the word out. You could target a large fan base that doesn't already have a home. Once you have a large fan base on your site, you can learn how to better serve your market and then go from there.