As someone living in a house with a stash of cosmetics to rival a small Boots branch, I can understand the need for this. Glambot is an online cosmetic store that resells pre-owned makeup. The company buys unwanted cosmetics from members and then re-sells, enabling customers to make money from all the stuff they bought and never used.

My first thought was that there is a hygiene issue but the company claim to have a system for sanitising and repackaging products. Even so, I’m not sure I’d want to be using a second hand lipstick…or any lipstick for that matter, but you know what I mean. This is a fairly recent start-up, so it’s too early to gauge success.

This might provide a mental springboard though. Are there other products which people ‘over-buy’ and could form the basis of a business like this?

www.glambot.com

‘Writer.is’ is a website that host daily journals, complete with a text typing effect, that recreates the writer’s composition one letter at a time.

Anyone can use Writer.is, either as a writer or reader. To create a journal, users  make a profile and then choose a title and background image for their project. Then, they are encouraged to update their journal daily. Readers simply select a journal and it opens on a separate page. The story appears gradually, one character at a time at the speed it was written, with the cursor flashing in the pauses between words.

I mention it for a couple of reasons:

1. You may wish to create your own blog on this platform.

2. There may be other applications for this ‘view it as it was created’ approach.

Website: www.writer.is