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| | The Let's Form a Startup! Network is not currently active and cannot accept new posts | | Online Dating 2.0: Seeking Software Development Partner | Views: 870 | | Feb 21, 2006 2:48 am | | Online Dating 2.0: Seeking Software Development Partner | # |
James Griffin Media | |
*** Read This Carefully: Initially this is for an Equity-Only Position ***
The Online Dating Marketspace has proven itself to be a very lucrative and profitable market with often huge
market caps -- but growth is now stagnating while competition is heating up.
I have identified and am developing a new disruptive software and business model to take this marketspace by storm.
I have created the initial specifications and PRD.
I now need to partner with several software developers to make this a reality.
Skills required:
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- C++ / Java.
- MySQL or other databases (including local client side databases).
- Data parsing/Filtering of Webpage content (webpage scraping).
- Automated email creation/delivery/bounce handling/SMTP
- A good work ethic, ability to meet deadlines and solve problems are key.
- Hands-on approach to development.
- Ability to quickly integrate ideas into the development process
- Proven leadership skills
- Good communication and listening skills
If you prefer to talk about code rather than write it or you need an immediate paycheck this is not the
gig for you. But if you like all of the above, it may be a dream come true.
Initially this will be for Equity Only. As soon as revenue is generated, you will receive a revenue
share with the potential to convert to a salaried part time or full time position. I am also seeking
institutional funding and if funding is acquired, salaries will be paid out at that time.
Part-time work and telecommuting is fine.
Serious only.
Private Reply to James Griffin Media | | Apr 26, 2006 8:22 pm | | re: Online Dating 2.0: Seeking Software Development Partner | # | 
Trevor Cryer | | Im not a coder but an an outsourcing expert. I may be interested in working with you on an investment level as I have 3 social matching sites myself.
However can you define "disruptive software" so I have a better idea about what is going to make your idea a 2.0 idea.
Thanks
TrevPrivate Reply to Trevor Cryer | | Apr 26, 2006 9:23 pm | | re: Online Dating 2.0: Seeking Software Development Partner | # | 
>> Barry Caplan - Start Your Future Today | | This position has been posted several times in the past, periodically. Has work proceeded over that time? Is there a team that is growing with code already in place as a result of previous postings, or would someone be starting from scratch and/or working alone?
Best,
BarryPrivate Reply to >> Barry Caplan - Start Your Future Today | | May 07, 2006 1:09 pm | | re: re: Online Dating 2.0: Seeking Software Development Partner | # |
James Griffin Media | | >Im not a coder but an an outsourcing expert. I may be interested in working >with you on an investment level as I have 3 social matching sites myself.
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>However can you define "disruptive software" so I have a better idea about >what is going to make your idea a 2.0 idea.
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>Thanks
>Trev
Private message me for more info.
Thanks.
-- JamesPrivate Reply to James Griffin Media | | Jun 22, 2006 11:31 pm | | re: Online Dating 2.0: Seeking Software Development Partner | # |
Mike Sherman | | James,
I deal in Sales Outsourcing for Software Houses.
In our process we come across all kind's of IT needs and IT suppliers.
If you could describe more about what resources are you looking for, I would be in a Comfertable position to take this to the next level.
You may like to visit www.20tees.com
Mukul Sharma
Private Reply to Mike Sherman | | Jun 23, 2006 2:00 am | | re: Online Dating 2.0: Seeking Software Development Partner | # | 
Donald Peters | | Just a few ideas. MySQL is notat great a choice, its not truly open source or free. Its also lacking in several areas, specifically stored procedures. PostgreSQL is a much better choice, much more mature, much more of a true database rather than a SQL front-end to a disk file.
Java is the way to go, unless you want the product to be MS Windows only.
I don't know what your niche is with respect to online dating. It seems to me that it would be tough to compete. Video perhaps, instead of putting up a static picture, post a video clip?
DonPrivate Reply to Donald Peters | | Jun 23, 2006 3:14 am | | re: re: Online Dating 2.0: Seeking Software Development Partner | # |
>> Barry Caplan - Start Your Future Today | | > Just a few ideas. MySQL is notat great a choice, its not truly open source or free
Citation? I maintain that is preposterous! I just happened to be on mysql.org earlier today - here are the license links:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/gpl-license.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/gpl-license.html
mysql has always been gnu licensed, at least for the 3 major versions which go back to at least 1998, and it doesn't get any more open source then that.
For more info on the gnu license, see gnu.org.
> Its also lacking in several areas, specifically stored procedures.
Also not true, at least for the current major release:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/stored-procedures.html
> PostgreSQL is a much better choice, much more mature, much more of a true database rather than a SQL front-end to a disk file.
I have used both, and ohters - I worked for Borland on Interbase for a while way back when. Both work. My feeling is mysql is under more active development, is open source, is very solid, has a larger community to support it, and is generally optimized to handle the most demanding web site tasks. It scales fine - we should all be so lucky to reach the point where mysql or any other tool won't scale for our needs - it is very rare indeed.
Postgres still has a pretty large and active community, but it is dwarfed by mysql, and the tide for the future is very clear. If you are in it for the long term, mysql is probably your best choice.
As for mysql writing to a file - ultimately if you write to a disk, you have to write to a disk. The dbms shouldn't really have to worry about device details if you are referring to some device level optimizations. That is the job of lower level software, such as drivers and file systems and OSs, not the dbms itself, except perhaps for some very specialized cases, which a routine web site such as this one is not a candidate for.
> Java is the way to go, unless you want the product to be MS Windows only.
Huh?
1 - Java is not (yet) open souce. Sun keeps saying they will release it under an open source license (for at least ther past 4 years IIRC) , but to the best of my knowledge they have not released a certain core of it, becuse of third party code licensing issues that they have not been able to clear. So if open source is important, Java is the *last* thing you should be considering.
2 - Arguably cross platform is not even an issue for a web site. Architecture decisions are made on many other more important factors then if you will switch from *nix to wndows or back later. That just doesn't happen for real sites in real businesses, which the site under discussion aims to be. It would be a huge setback no matter whay if the architecxture was canged at that level mid-strem, no matter which direction it went. Those choices are made early, and they are made for keeps.
3 - All than notwithstanding, many web devlopment programming languages, all tightly integrated with the most popular web server, Apache (and its variants) are both open source and available cross platform: Perl, PHP, Ruby and probably others such as Tcl and Python that are lower on my radar screen.
4 - Even mysql and apache are available cross platform for Windows , although why anyone would want to build a large (or any, really) web site on windows is beyond me.
If you wanted to build a windows only web site, you would use windows' web serer, which I can't even remember the name right now, C#, ASP, and other MS proprietary languages, and Sql Server for a database.
But I don't recommend trying any of that at home, or at work :)
Best,
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