Building a social networking site
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- vaxorcist0
I highly recommend re-skinning something that already works if you can find something that's pretty close to what you want.... the cost will be 1/10th of building from scratch. Allow a week or so to download and test a bunch of things.
The real skillset here is NOT the purely technical, but the client-expectations-management skill... and making sure the warm-fuzzy feeling continues rather than the terrified throw-in-the-kitchen sink feature set panic that can derail things....
Building from scratch will result in lots of testing time and debugging and conceptual "can't get there from here" moments, note that some clients see bugs as a "character flaw" in the programmer rather than a near-inevitable effect of recoding to changing specs all night long...