I got idea to share.

[Wil McGilvery]

Are you wanting someone to develop the web site and then offer it for others to use or are you wanting to setup a site with this functionality?

Your message mentions volunteers. So I am assuming you are looking for free or a very low cost to participate in this web site as a vendor?

Developing the application would be relatively easy, but hosting it would not.

If the web site had low traffic it would be very easy to manage and could be hosted anywhere - even in someone's basement, but then who would want to participate in a low traffic web site. There would not be much benefit to the vendor to participate.

If the web site became a high traffic site, then stability, reliability and bandwidth all become issues and there are cost associated with these issues.

Also as more vendors sign up it would become a daunting task for a volunteer to police the site so you would need a reporting mechanism to report false records or a registration process that could have an approval process.

My 2 cents

Regards,

Wil McGilvery
Manager
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Sergey Kuznetsov
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:48 AM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: [TLUG]: I got idea to share.

Hi guys,

I have a lots of ideas, but only have the time to realize some of them.

Therefore I want to share some of them with TLUGers, may be someone will 
be interested to
develop it under F/OSS.

The idea one:

Everyone knows what some small shops most of the time have better prices 
for grossery,
veggies, electronics, etc...
My idea is to create site with comparison charts by products, with 
possibility to choose the
products with good overall quality and price, I named it 
price-to-quality ratio.

It means you can choose the group of the products to compare, or you can 
choose one broad
categorized group, or some sub-groups, and choose the area you living 
per se, and then
you will receive the table with with products as rows, and shops as 
columns ( or visa versa )
and at intersection will be price and link to customers feedbacks + 
calculation of overall
quality-to-price ratio.

The profiles for each shop + products can be updated by some responsible 
volunteers and
by shop owners itself.

If someone added fictitious or fraud shop, it will be removed, because 
prices and quality
can be checked anonymously by some trusted audit group of volunteers.

PS: It will help and to customers to save the money, and to small shops 
to attract the customers.

PPS: If you like or dislike this idea - let me know here. I hope we can 
discuss it in this list very
productively.

All the Best!
Sergey.
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