Short version: here is a free website -- still in the pre-alpha
phase -- listing companies and organizations involved with a variety of
maritime industries and also philanthropic endeavors (environmental
remediation). It will also have resources for helping people to start
their own companies.
The website: https://blue-list.net/
Long-version: Hi, everyone. I've been researching aquaculture, aquaculture technologies and related businesses for several years now, possibly in order to start a business.
As part of this, I started an index of companies and organizations involved with a variety of maritime
industries, including aquaculture, unmanned aquatic
robotics, maritime structural engineering and so on.
The website is free and available to everyone. It's in a "pre-alpha" stage: I've thrown it together
over a few weekends. I plan on improving it on a weekly basis, but I
also wanted it to be available and useful to people as quickly as
possible so I'm posting it now. Right now it is costing me money to operate and I'll probably
come up with a model to monetize higher-tier features (freemium model),
if only to cover the operating expenses and some of the labor. The ROI
for all of this, up to this point, has been negative for me, but
hopefully it can help other people to research and build more quickly.
1 of the next steps will be to come up with a better search feature
and finer listings of various categories (such as, say, allowing users
to search for maritime energy companies by the kind of energy they
harvest: wave technology, floating solar etc. or by allowing users to
compare components for unmanned aquatic vehicles).
If you have any questions or requests, feel free to let me know. Cheers.
