PHP / Javascript programmers needed

[Pilot-Doofy]

I have a rough draft template setup for AmpFusion.com.

It will be a site similar to Myspace with music. Bands with signup for free and showcase their work including mp3's, videos, and all sorts of things. Users with no band or music may be able to sign up for free or $5 or something (still haven't decided) and everyone will have playlists and all sorts of things.

I hope it gets huge, this is a big personal project I've been working on. I need someone who is very efficient in PHP and/or Javascript to help me out. If you don't want to code the backend we can use something I whipped up yesterday.

If you're not outstandingly good you can follow in my footsteps. The pages are pretty easy to code, but with all the features it's going to have, it's hard for a single person to code something like it in a decent amount of time.

Anyone interested?

[cherries]

just to let you know; 404.

[Pilot-Doofy]

At 3/24/06 12:43 AM, -cherries- wrote: just to let you know; 404.

Yeah, I reposted with the correct link at www.ampfusion.com/template/template1.jpg

Sorry.

[thoughtpolice]

I suppose I could help if I have the time. It'd be cool to participate in a project like this.

Few questions though:

What are the specs of the server the site will run on? This includes operating system, processor, the works.
Will we use source code control systems like SVN or CVS (SVN prefered)?
How do you plan to rake in users?
Will we provide any other services such as POP3?
Will anything such as contests be held for 'most popular artist of the month' or something?

That's all I can think of, you get the point

[Taylor]

At 3/24/06 01:36 AM, SrgntJack wrote: I suppose I could help if I have the time. It'd be cool to participate in a project like this.

Few questions though:

What are the specs of the server the site will run on? This includes operating system, processor, the works.
Will we use source code control systems like SVN or CVS (SVN prefered)?
How do you plan to rake in users?
Will we provide any other services such as POP3?
Will anything such as contests be held for 'most popular artist of the month' or something?

That's all I can think of, you get the point

You can do darn well anything you want once you pay for the hosting ;)
jk, take your time. I'd be glad to lend a hand if needed :)

[PONGpaddle]

I would help if I wasn't developing my own social networking website.

When you say "Myspace with music", remember that a lot of Myspace's money has come from music.

[liaaaam]

I'd love to help out a bit. I'm pretty good at PHP and learning mySql (I can use it, I just haven't put it to practice much because I only have access on my local server so only I can use it ^_^), with PHP I'm still picking things up but still I can use it fairly well too. I'm pretty good at JS too, it being similar to AS (well they're both ecmascript) helps.

Plus I love your layout - especially the SOAD, gay Tim, and the simplicity.

[Markus]

Not programming related:

You do know that a site like that will start real slow. At least 6 months before any action, 2 years before any good regular visits. Have you already checked how much competition there is?

But I do like your style, just choose big and go for it. I’m just curious, how do you prepare the project (content, financial etc). I lack structure in my projects so it would be nice to hear how others do it.

Goodluck =)

[JosephGentzkow]

Your idea sounds pretty cool.

Although, I do currently don't know JavaScript or PHP.

But if you ever need an HTML/CSS coder, look me up -- but I presume you've already complete all the HTML stuff. ^_^

[PONGpaddle]

At 3/24/06 04:20 PM, deurwaarder wrote: You do know that a site like that will start real slow. At least 6 months before any action, 2 years before any good regular visits.

That's with no marketing. If you don't market a product properly, of course no one will use it. They won't be able to find it. They won't even know it exists. And marketing isn't necessarily expensive either. Often, it's free.

The key to social networking is people (but I'm sure you already figured that out). Get enough people to sign up, they'll get their friends to sign up, who will get their friends to sign up, and so on and so forth. Myspace started out with a handful of bands and their fans and grew into one of the most visited websites on the internet.

But the problem with Myspace is that it's computer system is critically flawed, due mainly to the fact it's a pile of shit. Slow, unrespsonsive, and in a constant state of update is not a good design for any system, especially one that resides on such an overwhelmingly popular website.

And that's without me mentioning that its only feature that sets it apart from the hundreds of similar websites is the friends list (which, frankly, required the same amount of inspiration and innovation as two-ply toilet paper).

I've just realised I've gone and ranted about the inadiquicy of Myspace instead of talking about marketing. Sorry about that.

[Pilot-Doofy]

I have sweet hookups. I have friends at my school who have been in battle of bands, singing competitions, and all kinds of shit. I have plenty of starter artists to get the word out for free.

[cook]

I'd definately put up some of my band's shit. Sounds like a good idea.