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Originally Posted by SoundSystem
I have the funding, the Business knowledge and the support.
I just don't have the programmers.
As for the 'trusted friends' as MBirch put it, they are people on my msn list I have known for a long time. I would not call them trusted friends, just friends.
He is busy with his own project and cannot help, even with the amount of payment offered.
Do not forget, when it comes to funding, I have been backed by my school, local college and businesses...Plus a Young Enterprise scheme.
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Since you seem hellbent on proceeding with this, and i'm feeling a bit less cynical today, perhaps I could offer this bit of advice.
Instead of hiring coders, hire designers to get the job done. This will be beneficial for a few reasons :
1.) Hire designers as opposed to coders at first : It's a lot easier to change things on paper vs. code, and it will be a lot easier to see up front exactly how long this project will take, and what the hardware/software requirements are.
1a) by designers I mean map things out to the detail, from how big the message and memory buffers will be, the format they will take, and what sockets they will use. Screen layout etc. know what will happen when you resize windows, and have numbers and equations to back up your idea.
2.) After design is finished write up a formal set of requirments. By reading the requirements you should be able to know exactly what the program will do. What message gets displayed when your message is too long, what if the internet connection dies, if the server gets a message that's not formatted correct etc.
3.) THEN Get some coders to work on the code design things piece by piece
4.) Get testers to test the pieces when they come in.
This would be the proper way of doing things, and if you decide to stop / delay a step you can look back at what you've done and continue on with things. Until you finalize steps 1 and 2 though, if you expect people to start coding right off there is no way you'll get what you want. Instead you'll just get what the coder thinks you want.
-MBirchmeier