Working on a new App. Am I wasting my time?

[Naxas]

I find this a good idea, but for now it seems to still be in brainstorming ? Making an app is "easy", you might want to study what other free apps have to offer and are lacking compared to paying ones.

I personnaly have absolutely no interest in a marketplace like the one you want to offer. It's just asking to get sammed and really not that much of a good idea especially if you want to start. Go slow, start with the tracking and add backups and exporting and it would already be way better then many ! If you only go with the app you will also save on all that server junk that you really will not need if you stay clear of money transfers [IMG]file:///C:\Users\E208451\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.gif[/IMG]

Do only the tracking app for ios, android, windows, mac, linux, etc and I'll back you up 100% depending on the prices you give.
Add anything else and I'll be out and continue with the one I made for myself.

Thank you for the input Ufoo9k

I'm with you on the concept that making a simple app is "easy" the free side of this will only take me a few hrs. maybe a little longer. If this is the side to get interest, is there any other functionality that you would want to see (aside from what was previously mentioned). I would like to make the free app fully functional as well.


Integrating functionality to allow a market place to be linked to user profiles and allow for tracking based on users data tables is a bit more difficult, and will require server side stored data otherwise the app would move at a snail’s pace and not load 90% of the time.

the point I'm trying to get to is protect the buyer, and protect the seller. What are your thoughts on the marketplace, how do you feel there would be infested with scammers? The plan was to have all transactions go through the site and have 0 checks 0 money orders, 0 wire transfers. Credit or debit only.


This is data gathering as well as brain storming and I need the herp community help, I need to know what they want to see I need to know what worries they/you have about each aspect. As much as I appreciate your help and input the "I wouldn't use that marketplace as asking to be scammed" doesn't help me as much as "it seems there may be an opportunity for scammers here etc."

I like this idea but I have to agree with no marketplace. It would bog down the system, could lead to many issues. Plus I would never back a marketplace I only buy from people I trust.

I I think you won't get many participants in the loaner idea either. Honestly I thought it was a nice, optimistic idea, but I doubt anyone with a decent animal would be willing to trust like that. I wouldn't. If I want diversity I would reach out to someone I trust implicitly. This would destroy my idea of quarantine, risk my entire collection. What if they used poor husbandry? What if my snake came back with burns from an unregulated heat source? My reaction once I got my hands on the borrower would send me to jail.

That said, I am all for the non marketplace non lending ideas!

Thank you for the input Kokorobsoi

The loner idea would def. need to be hashed out better for example maybe only loaning animals you were going to sell with a deposit of the full selling cost of the animal + the “rental fee” what types of things would ease your mind on the loner idea?

As for the marketplace again a lot needs to be hashed out, possibly allowing “stores” to be setup where VPI, nerd, GHI etc. could set up and have all these stores in 1 place. Ideas as to how to make it Viable would be better than. Such as making a rating system like e-bay or amazon, making people accountable for selling “bad” animals.

The More info you could provide me the more safeguards I may be able to add work out to ease people’s minds.

I am one of the small breeders you don’t know/trust I only have 1-2 clutches a year. I’m anal-retentive about my husbandry, but you all do not know that why would you buy from me if my current project pans out (cherry bomb project btw super excited about it) what can I do other than sell on a market? Maybe have it so you have to have a 5 star rating/99% positive feedback/ or whatever rating system it is, before you can open a store. Small breeders would be more inclined to make sure they do well in there husbandry so they can eventually open their own store, not everyone can afford to open an internet store.

BTW I am not bashing either of you in any way at all your help is greatly appreciated I’m just trying to make the idea viable/better.

I am a sr. programmer by trade btw, this stuff is all do-able for me, and worry not about bogging down the system etc. as they will be separate connected entities this is what I do lol


The more you all give me the more I can fix/make better. Again I Really want ideas on the basic app as well as the more advanced app with breeding. The market/loaner thing would be more website side.