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This started as a project for just my city, as there's a ton of work that goes into information collection. I also want to be more involved in the area, have gi

This started as a project for just my city, as there's a ton of work that goes into information collection. I also want to be more involved in the area, have giveaways events etc, so something bigger would be too much for me to manage and I think, dilute the overall project. As for open source or API, I've had some thoughts of selling the source to some other areas, but I don't want it to be so diluted that a dozen different hobbyists can attempt to mash together something for their own city using the script. Is that just me being selfish? I'd love to hear more. It isn't using an API, the data is collected by me, and added manually. I've developed a pretty good admin panel behind the scenes with some other great features. I think its important to note, that I'm not the main developer on this project. It has been my project for a long time, I've done all of the design, concepts, etc. But I've worked with a very skilled coder to implement everything.

blasdel 17y ago
Trying to sublicense it non-competitively to only one hobbyist in each area is a really awful idea. FreeCycle turned into a massive clusterfuck because of this. If you want your implementation to spread to other cities either make a franchise business out of it or make it open source.
- proexploit 17y ago
  I'm afraid of open source just turning it into a project that consumes my time and money with no return. I'd definitely be interested in "franchising" it so to speak so that other areas could use my work in their specific non-competing area and hopefully get a little bit of my development costs back. Anyone who has experience with this, I'd be happy to hear from you (email is in my profile). I'm a sharing guy, really! I just don't want to jeopardize the project I've been working so hard on. Thanks for your comment.
  - noodle 17y ago
    then i would suggest this -- develop more automation into the process, and make it something that can simply be piloted by an admin, and then hire/solicit admin to come and pilot the their city's site. set it up so that they can somehow get a cut of the revenue. for example, allow them to add in their adsense code and the site will display their ads 80% of the time. you keep control over source, you keep some revenue, and it gets franchised out with locals at the helm of the individual sites.
    - proexploit 17y ago
      More automation as in API from Yelp, etc? I agree with the rest of what you're saying, but to me, the data gathering (while time consuming) is part of what makes my site better than others in my area. The information is confirmed, it's accurate. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
      - noodle 17y ago
        in my head i was thinking of a process that puts things in an authorization queue. pull in all data that is probably accurate, and have an admin either hand-verify it or hand-edit it so that its right.

blasdel 17y ago

Trying to sublicense it non-competitively to only one hobbyist in each area is a really awful idea. FreeCycle turned into a massive clusterfuck because of this. If you want your implementation to spread to other cities either make a franchise business out of it or make it open source.

proexploit 17y ago
I'm afraid of open source just turning it into a project that consumes my time and money with no return. I'd definitely be interested in "franchising" it so to speak so that other areas could use my work in their specific non-competing area and hopefully get a little bit of my development costs back. Anyone who has experience with this, I'd be happy to hear from you (email is in my profile). I'm a sharing guy, really! I just don't want to jeopardize the project I've been working so hard on. Thanks for your comment.
- noodle 17y ago
  then i would suggest this -- develop more automation into the process, and make it something that can simply be piloted by an admin, and then hire/solicit admin to come and pilot the their city's site. set it up so that they can somehow get a cut of the revenue. for example, allow them to add in their adsense code and the site will display their ads 80% of the time. you keep control over source, you keep some revenue, and it gets franchised out with locals at the helm of the individual sites.
  - proexploit 17y ago
    More automation as in API from Yelp, etc? I agree with the rest of what you're saying, but to me, the data gathering (while time consuming) is part of what makes my site better than others in my area. The information is confirmed, it's accurate. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
    - noodle 17y ago
      in my head i was thinking of a process that puts things in an authorization queue. pull in all data that is probably accurate, and have an admin either hand-verify it or hand-edit it so that its right.