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

[Badshah93]

i will be releasing CMS Review System soon.. i am opening my custom paid site (vfcoders.com) so will be releasing lite edition in vbulletin.org and paid edition in my site.

[thecore762]

Alfa1 I am interested in this project and the product, how much does someone need to contribute at least to be in?

[interfx]

Originally Posted by Sherif

i will be releasing CMS Review System soon.. i am opening my custom paid site (vfcoders.com) so will be releasing lite edition in vbulletin.org and paid edition in my site.

Need timing - in this single thread there are over 3 different solutions, and no one has shown a version that actually works in VB4 (the original request)...

If you have something real, suggest you get it out there ASAP - as it sounds like we're heading down a paid, custom path...

Thanks for sending a link.

[vbresults]

This could be an interesting project after the media library mod.

[Alfa1]

Originally Posted by thecore762

Alfa1 I am interested in this project and the product, how much does someone need to contribute at least to be in?

Expect to invest around 200-300 each. It greatly depends upon how many people actually come through.

There is quite a list of people who want to be part of this project.

Im currently on holiday and will be back next week. The project will advance from then on. A quick note to other impatient webmasters: trust me, this show is going on the road. Im just as impatient as you are. I needed this a long time ago already.

[slinky]

Best of luck making this happen. I don't want to burst anyone's bubble but who "owns" the code of this "donationware" product? Does VB have the right to take the code and then modify it and sell it? Does anyone who "donates" to the product get a share of ownership?

This is all very nice in theory but it is a total mess on the business end. And if you guys want to start building add-ons like this in a vacuum when IB hasn't given you a road map of what it's doing, get ready for potentially huge frustration. What if their "add-on" products compete with this? What about support?

I thought about all these things and realized I was better off not blowing more than the few thousand dollars I did on my own custom add-ons since anything I'm doing is competing with what IB does in the dark and will be unsupported.

I have zero doubt Alfa1 has great intentions. Truth is that the way things are, this will be stop-gap at best. Even the few major add-on developers here are now creating add-ons for XenForo and IPB. Without a road map, anything done here may be duplicative and short lived. And most important, somebody or someone has to own all of the code. If Alfa1 does, then I suggest he find a better way to fund the product than $300 from this guy and $50 from that guy, each of whom will potentially have equal rights to the add-on.

[Alfa1]

Off course there is a risk that IB will release a reviews addon. But as they have been able to do about nothing right in the last years, I highly doubt its an issue. Im done waiting for IB. I need the functionality and thats all that really matters. Im not interested in a commercial business of selling software.
I just want the functionality and anyone who is willing to share the cost will get the right to use the software on his/her website. Investing in the software will not give the right to sell it on. The developers of the software will not have the right to sell the software to other parties.
There are more than a few people who intent to invest an equal amount in this project. If half of them come through then the financial side of it will be in order.

Once completed, I expect that the improvement of the software functionality will be ongoing in the future thereafter.

[Jirinex]

Can we start with a post listing the people that actually want to contribute and then get in touch with a developer to get a quote?

[SarahScott]

Don't waste to much money, there's a free review system published here recently
Which is here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ghlight=review

And i also found a premium review system for vb4 which seems very good, when i was looking for some skins.
Here is a premium one: http://www.vbcover.com/icart.php
4th product in the list.

I'm not sure if it's allowed to post that link here, but i just want to prevent you guys from wasting money. It's not my website, just trying to help you guys out. Cheers!
Also if linking is not allowed, i will removed it instantly.

[Alfa1]

Product review forums does something similar to GARS: turn forums into review sections. The issue with this approach is that it needs a mass of forums. vbulletin has a maximum number of forums that you can add without performance issues.
iReviews is a nice product, but it is encoded. This means that you can not modify it and you need to run ioncube.