This is nice. I experienced something similar. I live in Algeria and the banking system is deplorable. I wanted to be able to buy things online and needed a debit card. It took forever to find a bank that proposed them (sometimes, the bank employees themselves didn't know their own bank proposed such a service).
Anyway, after all the fuss and after gathering all the necessary documents to open an account and get a card, I thought that a lot of people were in a similar situation.
I created a wordpress.com blog and listed all the necessary documents. I created a PDF the bank required but didn't even bother to ask for until you went there (so extra trip) with fillable fields and all and uploaded it there. The whole thing. It was so frustrating to me that I went overboard and listed other options like comparing other card providers to the specific context of the country, and how each one could be used differently.
After that, I got proper hosting and redirected the .wordpress there. There were about 300 people daily on the site. Not much, but that's 100k people who read a very long post. The post alone had more than 700 comments (I changed to Disqus) and I replied to 99.99% of them. The remaining was spam. Soon, other readers were answering questions of "new" readers. They also sent me different documents to attach to the article. The site was linked to from a whole bunch of geek sites in the country. Sites to buy cars linked to it, too (they were interested in buying car accessories).
Often times, people I knew would read the article and then read the author's name and laugh because they knew me personally. Another contacted me and said good things and asked if I was related to an author/Gynechology Professor (my uncle) and he said he avoided his wife a couple years of prison time (she was to be jailed for medical mistake and my uncle apparently made a report it wasn't, the investigation was reopened). Others said it would be cool to meet IRL for coffee, etc. Others said I should monetize it.
It all came because I was too frustrated by the paperwork and the 18th century style banks have to do business.
The point is: It might not seem like it's a big thing (I mean, it's only a darn card, right).. But you never know how bad the itch is for someone else. A good indication is how it is bad for you, though. It doesn't matter if it's not revolutionary, only that it needs violent scratching.
Anyway, after all the fuss and after gathering all the necessary documents to open an account and get a card, I thought that a lot of people were in a similar situation.
I created a wordpress.com blog and listed all the necessary documents. I created a PDF the bank required but didn't even bother to ask for until you went there (so extra trip) with fillable fields and all and uploaded it there. The whole thing. It was so frustrating to me that I went overboard and listed other options like comparing other card providers to the specific context of the country, and how each one could be used differently.
After that, I got proper hosting and redirected the .wordpress there. There were about 300 people daily on the site. Not much, but that's 100k people who read a very long post. The post alone had more than 700 comments (I changed to Disqus) and I replied to 99.99% of them. The remaining was spam. Soon, other readers were answering questions of "new" readers. They also sent me different documents to attach to the article. The site was linked to from a whole bunch of geek sites in the country. Sites to buy cars linked to it, too (they were interested in buying car accessories).
Often times, people I knew would read the article and then read the author's name and laugh because they knew me personally. Another contacted me and said good things and asked if I was related to an author/Gynechology Professor (my uncle) and he said he avoided his wife a couple years of prison time (she was to be jailed for medical mistake and my uncle apparently made a report it wasn't, the investigation was reopened). Others said it would be cool to meet IRL for coffee, etc. Others said I should monetize it.
The site ranked 1 on Google for "MasterCard Algérie" (it's not anymore as I was too busy to renew hosting, etc. But the wordpress.com blog ranks 7th).
It all came because I was too frustrated by the paperwork and the 18th century style banks have to do business.
The point is: It might not seem like it's a big thing (I mean, it's only a darn card, right).. But you never know how bad the itch is for someone else. A good indication is how it is bad for you, though. It doesn't matter if it's not revolutionary, only that it needs violent scratching.
Good luck with your projects.