on the other hand... maybe they're looking for not only skilled developers to build the app, but also people that they can work with, as partners.. who knows, maybe these guys have a pool of real estate partners and the $$$ will flow if they can get things off the ground... but i'm sure that all the php developers who reply to this list are already making at least $50/hr net, so maybe this wouldn't be your thing!!! peace... -----Original Message----- From: Jochem Maas [mailto:jochem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:36 AM To: ceo@xxxxxxxxx Cc: Robert Cummings; Paul Scott; doc; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: php competion Richard Lynch schreef: > > On Sun, February 3, 2008 11:51 am, Robert Cummings wrote: >> On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 18:15 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: >>> On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 20:10 +1100, doc wrote: >>>> come on people try you skills at >>>> >>>> http://www.rhwebhosting.com/comp/index.php >>> Reworded as: >>> >>> Redesign our complete web presence and give us a couple of apps that >>> we can flog to our clients, >>> and we *may* give you a consolation prize. >> So not worth the time and effort. Any person capable of doing the code >> conversion (to AT LEAST C, Python, and Perl nonetheless) is smart >> enough >> to know the potential payoff is worse than flipping burger and >> McGeneric's. > > Actually, the specification for the real estate listing thingie looked > pretty trivial... on the surface of things I would agree - which is why there are plenty of trivial real-estate listing apps out there. but I doubt that's what they are looking for. when you factor in multi-user, multi-currency, multi-language aspects, the ability to switch between metric and imperial measurements, the issues related to normalization of real-estate data with regard to offering usable search mechanisms (everyone has different 'styles' of data), backend integration, automated export to third party systems and map integration things become a little more involved ... oh and flexibility because every real-estate agent is looking for something *slightly* different. given those points I would hazard a guess and say the development costs outweigh the potential prize money at least 4 to 1. granted a RE tool is not technically very challenging but I wouldn't under estimate the ammount of time the details of such an app would take to implement. anyway you put it these rhwebhosting guys are nuts if they think anyone (meaning anyone with the skills to actually produce the kind of quality/functionality their looking for) would be interested in this 'competition' > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
