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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

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.