Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment You'd be bored with the project? (Score 1) 229

I (like many others here) have been doing web stuff for over 10 years and have helped people develop systems like what you're probably wanting. Nothing worth doing can be done in a week or so. Years ago I started helping a friend build a different approach to ecommerce shopping carts (foxycart.com) and I thought it would take a weekend. We're still working on it.

The main point I want to make is anything you "would get bored of" is hard to sell to someone else to do the work for you, especially if you're trying to entice them with the hope of future profits. If you can't put in the day after day, hour after hour grunt work to make a business profitable, don't waste a developer's time building it.

Web-based companies, in my opinion, should be championed by web developers, not just guys with an idea. If you're going to build and sell furniture, as an example, I think you should know how to put together a chair. Rarely do successful people start a business they aren't intimately involved in, but for some reason entrepreneurs attempt to do this with a web-based businesses every day... and then wonder why they fail.

Stick to your core business skills, add a website like you'd add any marketing tool. If you want to build a web-based business and that's not your area of expertise, then find a developer who has the same vision you do and work together or go do something else.

That's just my opinionated opinion. :) I've seen things succeed and fail and know how frustrating and rewarding both can be.

Slashdot Top Deals

Nothing succeeds like success. -- Alexandre Dumas

Working...