Lets combine funds for a Reviews CMS with business/product directory

[Keysailor]

You can put me in the same category as monkeshine, I need something like what you're talking about (but for tech, not automotive, not that it matters imo), and I would be a cash contributor. My timeframe of need for a solid gold vB4.1.x product is by the end of 2011 and I'd be wanting to help test out various betas starting in Sept. I'm not a coder but have messed around with vB for over a year now and currently run a few community forums. I'm interested in using vB now for a new business venture. Let me know if you want/need investors and PM me whatever details are needed to get me in, if you want me. Cheers!

[cowcowcow]

i am in for the group by. i have been wanting something exactly like this. and yes if you dont contribute you should not get it for free cause its gonna cost quite a fee for something of this magnitude. will chip in up to $300

[cowcowcow]

I don't mean to derail the progress by pete but its been over a month since he said his deadline port to VB4 would be done and i've been left here helpless and waiting and im sure many of you are too because there has not been a single good article CMS for vb yet. I dont mind to sound unappreciative, i love what you have done so far pete, im just very uncertain if or when a vb4 port will be ready.

Now I have a really good coder whom i managed to find on elance (after many terrible experiences with bad coders) and already had him do over $400 worth of projects for me. I am keen to start on a similar this project as described in the OP and am very interested in getting it started as soon as possible. I was already prepared to spend over $1,500 for the project on my own but after seeing this thread I was so relieved because that is alot of money and if we did a "group buy" the costs could be split 4-5 ways. However i've been sitting here looking for progress over the last 2 weeks and there hasn't been any so forgive for sound impatient but i really don't want to wait anymore.

Anyone who is serious and interested in having the first solid article review CMS built for their site to their specifications please PM me, we will get a skype group going with the coder and begin work asap. Money will be escrowed by paypal. He says he can deliver the project by working on it full time for 3 weeks and his work so far on my site has been phenomenal, he has delivered extremely fast and beyond the scope of his work every time.

[reddyink]

No vote GARS from me.

Willing to pitchin for CMS review system.

[Alfa1]

Im on holiday until the 2nd. If there is no definite result from Pete by then, I will request quotes from 2 experienced developers.

[setishock]

Forgive my intruding in to this thread. I have no funds to contribute. But I do have some questions.
All the features the OP listed would be ok for a few but not for all end users of the finished product.
As such would there be a way to just turn on a few of the features as needed?
Will it be having a UI that a non coder type could understand? Or are you going to need a Ph.D in programming to make it work?
How much banging on the DB is it going to do?
How much bandwidth is it going to burn up making outside queries to places like amazon and google maps and hotel systems?
How much of a server footprint is this thing going to have?

And how can a pennyless little smuck like me get his hands on it?

[PBRiot]

This is something that we're very heavily interested in, and I'd be willing to contribute a great deal for a powerful review system. What's the latest on this?

[Ramsesx]

Originally Posted by setishock

And how can a pennyless little smuck like me get his hands on it?

To be honest, this whole thing makes no sense if some are paying the bill and others receive it for free.

[cowcowcow]

If you guys are sincerely interested, please PM me the amount you are willing to contribute so we can get things rolling. I can put together a skype group with us and confirm the specifications we want before sending it to the coder. Theres already 2 people in this so thats $600 towards this system. With $1000+ we can build a really powerful system and it would require no more than $300 per person.

Please PM me so i can arrange the preliminary talks and draft the project outline with the coder. All money will be escrowed so we will be protected and only released upon delivery of the final project to us.

[cowcowcow]

Bump.

We now have 4 confirmed buyers. I have set up the skype group (no need mic, we just use this to real time chat and for updates) and i have created a google document with the proposal, exact member specifications and members of the group.

If anyone else wants to join now is the time as we are going to move ahead shortly. We are not going to resell this mod so it will be the last chance to get a Article CMS with great functionality on VB4 for awhile.

Send me a PM with your skype details.