building a platform help
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- vaxorcist0
Honestly, finding a developer who would like to build this sort of thing from scratch might be suicidal business, as much of this has already been done ad-nauseam, and you can probably tweek something already out there if you're a skilled designer, and/or find somebody who can tweek things rather then write it all from scratch... as I worked at an agency years ago and we tried to essentially clone myspace and the specs were vague and changing and nothing ever went live... cost a boatload of time for vague results....
also, beware that many of these businesses started out doing x, but pivoted to do y after they tested a few proof of concepts, groupon started out doing something different from what made them the $$$, so beware that "trying to get it perfect" or "finding the perfect developer" may be the wrong approach, I'd avise finding something that already works, tweeking it, testing and showing to people to test your concept, then see if you really need to start from scratch, and/or tweek something already out there.... also, scalability's a bitch, FB has over 180,000 servers....
some things to check:
http://www.jomsocial.com/blog/ho…