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HansR75's picture

Hi All,

I'm looking for a few people... 2, maybe 3... To put together a website with Drupal and needed modules to get a groupbuy kinda site going. My idea differs a bit from the original groupbuy approach so for obvious reasons I'm not going to post full details here.

What I'm looking for is customized design and programming and would then reward the team in the future success of the website. My forte is selling and sourcing, marketing both online as well as offline so I'm sure we can get this baby going once we have the functionalities we need. Viral and affiliate marketing are my specialties and needless to say that groupbuying is just made for that.

It would be a platform with global potential over every deal which makes it unique and easy to grow. Once global we localize bit by bit to milk the cow we have grown.

I'm also looking to support the whole drupal community for making all this possible by sponsorships coming from profits made over this project. Basicly I would split 70/30 where the 30 is split into 20 to the team and 10 to supporting the drupal community hoping it will be used make this platform even better. Of which I'm pretty sure that this will happen. The above assumes I would work with 2 people, 10% each.. One good programmer and one good customizer would do the job I think. The 70 for me is obviously for my personal gain but actually goes into the company/project and will be heavily reinvested in sales, marketing and other reinvestments enabling growth. I'm not greedy, I just need a team on board and together we can make this work and make money fast. Easy? There is no such thing as easy money, but if we have a motivated team, spirit and willingness combined with a good idea this has great potential.

Time to market target: 1 month.
First profits target: Almost immediatelly as during the month of preparation marketing will be up and running. That will be my job and some others that will join the global sales, marketing and sourcing team which is already being formed as we speak.

Your programming work you can keep in your own ownership and moneytize it... Or share it with the community, as you wish. I would prefer sharing but it is entirely up to you. Except for one module that creates the unique selling point for our project. That one module makes us different and gives us the competitive advantage over all the other sites out there so we don't want that out there for grabs.

if anybody interested contact me and let me have your contact details. Preferably SKYPE as that works well for global communication in group meetings and stuff.

Looking forward to hear from a few of you.

Hans R.

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Interesting

tmuras's picture

That's an interesting plan Hans.
How many development day (effort) would you estimate are required during this 1 month?
Do you provide remuneration for the work?

cheers,
Tomek

partnership

HansR75's picture

the development could be fairly modest in the beginning to get things running. I'm not going to put hours or days on it because some people do a lot of work in an hour... others get nowhere in a week... All depends on how familiar they are with the development environment I guess...

But yeah... Building the site up from scratch and adding a few functionalities is not going to be done in 30 minutes. But I'll try to keep it to a bare minimum to get things going asap and then get the returns.

Everybody knows for him/herself how long he/she would need to set up the site and get it up and running. Then add a fairly simple module that creates the unique selling point functionality and we launch. And once you see the money comming in, we can then start developping continously to add more moneytizers to the site.

As for the reward/renumeration: as mentioned before; that would be a part of the profit.

I have to be careful what I say here because I don't want to offend anybody but facts are facts: the way I see it is that a lot of people here work for free, just to add to and be a part of the community. That's what I want to use, but not abuse. So I offer a partnership with a potential reward once everything gets going. And once it gets going we'll also give something back to this community that created this platform we are building on. Fair is fair.

So you want me to work for

Garrett Albright's picture

So you want me to work for free to build a site in an already overcrowded market which has not proven itself to be profitable and which both companies and customers are becoming weary of in exchange for 10% of the revenue, should there ever be any? Where do I sign?

No kidding...

arpieb's picture

LMAO @Garrett - if I had a dime for every time I get one of these offers when it becomes known in a new crowd that I'm a web developer, I'd have no need for the sweat equity "opportunities"... ;)

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Jeff Burnz's picture

In the immortal words of Neil, if I had a penny... I'd have £4.53

I get sent one a week, needless to say I don't bother replying.

I wish group maintainers could edit any post and remove this sort of lame crap out of my groups, its just spam.

Huh, apparently I can, removed from D4D.

One a week? I guess you

Garrett Albright's picture

One a week? I guess you should feel flattered. I get people scoping me for paid work maybe once or twice a month, and I typically never hear from them again after throwing a dollar amount at them. Very rarely get people wanting me to work for free.

I personally wish that comments were mandatorily enabled for all job postings. For earnest posts, it would be good for getting quick clarification ("You say 'no telecommuting,' but don't tell us where exactly we'll be working" and so on). For the nutso insaney bonkers ones (see above), well, it'd just be good ol' trollin' fun (see above).

hmm.

Drave Robber's picture

I also wonder why this thread keeps flowing to my e-mail despite me not being subscribed neither to this group, nor to this post, nor to this author, nor to alt.make-money-fast of the good ol' Usenet.

I want to be the part of this

tajinder.minhas's picture

I want to be the part of this team i have worked with ubercart before. I am a developer as well as themer.

But as Garrett have mentioned we "No telecommute" so what does it mean and can you specifically ppost here what kind of developer you want and when you are going to start this website and on which version of drupal you are going to start, which commerce platform you are going to srart, E-commerce or Ubercart.

If you can clarify the above details it will be good and please do post your decisions.

Regards
Tajinder Singh Minhas

e-Commerce Module

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