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

[OhhWatALoser]

ill give my 2 cents

I plan on making a secure marketplace with a payment system similar to Paypal with payment plan options to be set by seller (autopay, etc.). (Free app users will be able to buy from this market but not able to sell.)

If your not amazon google or paypal. I'm not giving you my credit card number to hold onto.

The marketplace will allow you to post animals for sale, with the ability to allow potential buyers to see all info tracked on that animal since it was an egg (feeding, shedding, general husbandry, etc.) and also the parents (Where they came from, Issues such as “wobbles”, Husbandry, etc.). This will allow responsible breeders more free time as it will make e-mailing and phone communications unnecessary, as well as selling their animals faster. This will also eliminate irresponsible breeders as their animals would be unlikely to sell without the for mentioned information.

A small side note: Double het animals would be better tracked making them slightly easier to sell

- buy (no trade offers will be allowed here)
- sell
- trade
- the ability to offer less with a 1 click deny or accept for seller. I plan on making a back end minimum accepted amount so the seller will only receive this if the minimum is met. Otherwise the offer will be auto rejected on a delay so people would not be able to keep offering until the minimum is met, essentially "masking" the minimum.
- An auction type system where 1 click buy and bid system would be incorporated similar to e-bay

communication between the buyer and seller is an absolute must imo. these are animals not ipads. Having much of the information available pre communication isn't a bad by any means, but to say its unnecessary? I can't see myself buying an animal without some sort of human interaction, even if it is just email. How do I know the animal didn't get sold locally or die, maybe it has mites now. I just send money and hope it shows up? nah. also the way it reads, I feel like someone like me might be punished, I track feedings on animals I'm selling, that's it. I don't track my own animals as I see it as a waste of time, I don't track sheds or defecation on anything as I see it as pointless info. Am I going to be seen as the irresponsible breeder on this website? Problem I have with the offer system is as a seller, what I will accept has many variables that change day to day and a lot of it has to do with the human interaction also

secure transaction loans (free app users will not be able to access this section)
- Create a new revenue stream for breeders that have snakes not involved in projects. As well as allow a cheaper way to work on new projects by smaller breeders. (genetic diversity people we neeeeeeed it)

This would be another thread but my take, we don't need genetic diversity, we need selective breeding.

- Requests for loaned animals
- post animals available for loan. A "rental fee" etc. may be set by loaner (i know rental fee sounds cold as we all love our animals but i couldn't think of another term at the moment)
- Deposits (set by lender and enforced by the site) to make it easier to lend a snake with less worry as well as protecting the buyer as the deposit is never in the hands of the lender it is held by 3rd party.
- the ability to view your loans status via the lendee's tracking (also the ability to charge fees for not appropriately updating the status of snakes that are loaned to you, pics if required etc., to be set by lender, and paid to the lender). The lender would be able to view this at any time.
- I have many ideas on this that are yet to be hashed out.

with the above 2 items there will most likely be some sort of % based payment to the site, as there would be no way to keep it going without a viable income stream. The % will be small such as 5 cents on the dollar or less

Loans carry a lot of risk for both parties so they are pretty rare. I don't know how much use you would see from this.

I also feel you are putting a lot of responsibility on yourself with the 3rd party payments. The idea works fine when everyone is happy, but when animals do unpredictable things or people lie, how are these issue going to be dealt with while you are holding onto my money? I know you have have a lot to hash out, but these are some of my thoughts as I read through. hope it helps