The whole database should be free and open-source, like the wikidata. Not a bad way to make money to found it, would be making search engine that would use that database.
Making the database community-managed is probably the only way how to achive some huge as it. Making it monetize in any way will probably discouraged the users from contributing (same thing that happend to Wikitravel.
And curlie, yes. But it just directory. I don’t want to build a directory, I want to build a databse not containg just the websites, but also detailed informations about them.
Hey guys, some of you compared my idea with web directories (Curlie, DMOZ, Yahoo…). But that’s not exactly the same. They was storing website just by topic of the website. In database, there should much more information about the website than just: “it’s chess one”. Let me explain it on library example:
Web directory: Library where you say which genre you want and they show you a list of books with this genre.
General search engines: Library where you say for which types of books you want, and they recomend you a few contating what you wanted, but sorted based on your own preferences and how much the authors paid them.
Database: Library where you say what books you want, and can contain any other things you wantm Like when the book was published, by who, topic of the book etc. Combining all these together