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I'm going to disagree with a lot of these other comments. What does your simple social networking site do? Is it a close clone of another site? For instance, Di
by jefflinwood 16y ago
I'm going to disagree with a lot of these other comments. What does your simple social networking site do? Is it a close clone of another site? For instance, Digg for cat lovers? Twitter for Amiga holdouts? Groupon for Waco, Texas?
There are commercial and open source clones of most of these sites out there of all kinds of quality. That doesn't actually matter so much - what matters is that you can quickly get a prototype of what you want to build in front of your potential users/customers.
Swap out some colors and images and make your clone script look close to what you want to build.
If your idea takes off, then you can start looking at building from scratch.
Hope this helps!
- drewbert 16y agoHow I see the site is probably more like a dating site that connects service providers with customers based on a geographic location but with a unique twist. Where might I be able to research these open source clones a bit further and do you think there is something that may fit in this realm?
- jefflinwood 16y agoHmm, I didn't see a lot of good open source dating scripts. That's probably because there's a lot of money in the space, and you can charge good money if you have a clone script. I saw two commercial options that were a couple of hundred dollars. Search for "match dating clone" or "match dating script" Can't vouch for them though. Drupal's usually another non-techie option to build a web site, but dating support is lacking. You'll need to get a developer involved if those commercial options don't let you do what you want. Here's some inspiration from the author of Mingle2. He spent 66.5 hours to build his dating site: http://mingle2.com/blog/view/how-i-built-mingle2 http://mingle2.com/blog/view/how-i-built-mingle2