[Cat Dancer]

Originally Posted by Adam

First of all, what language would you be writing it in? PHP is easier for the user (sysadmin) to support, since it isn't compiled into a bytecode. Also, if it is written in PHP, I would probably want to help develop it as well, though I would probably not ask for any money for helping.

I've recently begun writing some web applications in Haskell, because I like the language, and it has some nice features such as making it easy to avoid SQL injection attacks and such like.

For myself, I have no particular need to choose one particular language, I often write applications in two (or more) languages, each doing something which that language is particularly strong in. Certainly a particular application might have a PHP frontend.

Originally Posted by Adam

Second, what specific categories of personal development would you cover?

Well, that wouldn't be for me to decide! Someone who knows something about personal development, who wanted a web application developed, would tell me what they wanted the application to do and how they wanted it to work.

Fear was just an example, I expect someone who lives and breathes personal development would have a better idea than I do of what be a good first application to implement.

Originally Posted by Adam

For the layout of a person's first page, it could be a good idea to copy Google's new personal page layout, as seen here: Google

Tabbed pages would be something to program in a bit later, of course, but each content box would be able to show important, relevant information from the modules that the user has enabled, such as their top five fears, items from their daily task list, random long-term goals (or goals that they have set to a high priority), etc.

Right, this is an example of what someone might tell me to do. I'd ask questions (what order do you want the tabs in, and so on and so forth), and then I'd implement it.

Originally Posted by Adam

My last question is, how much do you think it would cost to get something like this built?

In my normal web application development business, I'd gather all the requirements, and make an estimate based on what the client wanted, and then tell my client: OK, my best guess is that this will cost $X.

In this case, (the idea I had this morning), I wouldn't be asking for any money up front. I would implement something, and then get paid back through the 30% cut (that I'm imagining would pay for the servers and also pay for my rent and groceries, eventually). Like I said, the downside is that it might take me a while to implement something, working part time.

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Originally Posted by Adam

I would probably want to help develop it as well

other programmers are available to help, it would probably get done faster!!

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