I need a (wo)man with a certain set of skills...

[Bobbin.Threadbare]

I have a (fashion) based idea for a website but I have no web dev or design skills to implement it. I've spoken to companies about creating it, and in all honesty I feel like I'd be an idiot if I trusted someone to build something without myself or someone else knowing how it got made.

As it stands, I either do something with it soon or take it to one of the companies I work for and let them run with it.

Do any of you guys fancy partnering up? It's not me just musing over 'trends' - I have strong evidence this will work.

[bels]

Would love to but in honesty probably don't have enough web dev specific experience. If it's relatively straight forward backend that you need I could probably work it out though.

[Syeknom]

I'm way too rusty at web dev right now and probably couldn't offer any real time to a project I'm afraid

[neon]

Oh hey this is what I'm working on learning right now, but I don't know if I have enough experience for what you're looking for.

[schiaparelli]

what kind of project is this, and how extensive is the technical/design work for it for? is the technical/design work potentially interesting and valuable for someone working with you?

i have a reasonable amount of web development + design experience in the sense that i'm quite good at making anything static (HTML/CSS/js) and could probably finagle some backend stuff together

[Bobbin.Threadbare]

Yeah, it'll be interesting, but the back end wont be ground breaking. In fact, the whole project might seem strange in that something similar exists, although what's out there isn't working/done right, and there's a blindingly obvious missed opportunity I can see.

Essentially it's a photo sharing site, where you have an album of photos that you can tag with different descriptions. You can follow other peoples albums, and share your own. A photo social network.

... except that's not actually it at all. That's the only way I can describe what it is without giving the game away.

I put the whole thing to bed a couple of months ago after mocking up all the conceptual art work, but today I thought 'fuck it, let's try once more'. I've just had someone else contact me saying they're interested so maybe this time around I can at least take it as far as a mock up?

[hooplah]

i was reading your post and i got to "something similar exists" and i thought to myself, "please be p*******t but better, please be p*******t but better." is that it?

shit did i just give the game away

okay wait i edited out what i was thinking of with asterisks of secrecy

[Bobbin.Threadbare]

I'm not taking on pintrest, but I agree with you. I really want to use it, but it's just so shit.

[hooplah]

i use it with some regularity, but it just recently did this thing where it started flooding my feed with people who have, at any point, pinned an image that i have also pinned and now my feed is flooded with the bullshit that comprises 99.99999% of pinterest (manicures, cupcakes, ugly fucking clothes, etc). it fucking sucks

[Bobbin.Threadbare]

A good reason why I can't stand it. I already know what a red velvet cake, graffiti, and cork wedge soled heels look like.

[schiaparelli]

you guys i love pinterest i don't care what anyone says

that said, i think they definitely need to work on filtering frontpage content better so there are more relevant things to users. this is a general problem for everyone who uses pinterest and has taste and doesn't want to plan a wedding with ombré DIY bouquets and modcloth dresses and i think they're working on it

[bels]

Bobbin about to snap and do a graffiti of shoes with red velvet cake wedge soles and then take a pic and upload it to pintrest and watch their servers burn.