RE: php competion

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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'



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