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What would it cost to set up a site like TM
| geek_quater | June 29, 2009, 9:32 pm | #1 | | What would it cost to set up a site like TM Just wondering? seems many sites starting but just not getting anywhere.. | |
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| geek_r.g.nixon | June 29, 2009, 9:36 pm | #2 | | Around $2 million just guessing |
| geek_quater | June 29, 2009, 9:37 pm | #3 | | Really that sounds alot Surly trademe didn't start with that much. |
| geek_boots0016 | June 29, 2009, 9:38 pm | #4 | | Ask Tm to put their business model up for auction Thats about the only way you would get an inkling of an idea. |
| geek_ferita | June 29, 2009, 9:39 pm | #5 | | You could start up a fairly decent one for around 30 to 40 grand but if it did get busy youd need to start investing heavily into it. Staffing costs would be a big one as you would have to pay top dollar to programmers if they became necessary full time. |
| geek_little_egypt | June 29, 2009, 9:40 pm | #6 | | "like TM" Get a server in the amazon cloud, stick MySQLAuction on it, customise it a bit. If you know a bit of PHP and do all the work yourself you could have a pretty decent site for peanuts. Also nice thing about AWS is that if you end up as big as TM or even EBAY you can very easily throw a whole bunch of virtual servers online as you need them, take them down again whenever the load drops, and only pay for what you use. |
| geek_r.g.nixon | June 29, 2009, 9:42 pm | #7 | | I thought you meant like TM now not like when they started. A startup would not need the server power and infrastructure they have now. |
| geek_quater | June 29, 2009, 9:46 pm | #8 | | Man i would love to know how to do all this stuff Just seems way over my head. I have ideas that would be pretty cool, but will die before I ever have a shot at it... |
| geek_ferita | June 29, 2009, 9:50 pm | #9 | | Quater -- you dont need to be a technical genious to do things. Thats what www.getafreelancer.com is for :) |
| geek_r.g.nixon | June 29, 2009, 9:50 pm | #10 | | Just team up with good people with the skills you need. |
| geek_quater | June 29, 2009, 9:56 pm | #11 | | I don't know anyone at the moment Always looking.. |
| geek_bit | June 29, 2009, 10:07 pm | #12 | | You won't find any here. Hehe. Cheeky aint I. |
| geek_quater | June 29, 2009, 10:35 pm | #13 | | Would $200 an hour be an alright price? .. |
| geek_ferita | June 29, 2009, 10:37 pm | #14 | | Re: 13 Typically you wouldnt pay by the hour for something like this. You would research prices of similar projects and offer a fixed price for the whole job. That way your not paying for some slacker to play halo while your paying him or her 200 bucks an hour. |
| geek_dunedin_ree | June 29, 2009, 10:37 pm | #15 | | Sounds a bit steep assuming you're talking about paying for a web programmer. |
| geek_quater | June 29, 2009, 10:43 pm | #16 | | I would be cracking the whip As already an Employer...lol | |
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| geek_hakatere1 | June 30, 2009, 5:43 am | #17 | | I don't know why anyone would strive to be second to go into that sort of business. I would think that any online auction site, starting in opposition to TradeMe, is doomed to failure. An original idea would be better, or a business where you're physically dealing with a product. |
| geek_alagalac | June 30, 2009, 9:38 am | #18 | | I agree with . Even ebay, the biggest auction site in the world has given up challenging trademe. Unless you create something totally revolutionary which trademe is unable to copy then you will never be the no. 1 auction site in NZ (unless TM does something really stupid). |
| geek_ferita | June 30, 2009, 9:39 am | #19 | | Find a niche market and target itthe more obscure but money earning market the betterchristian scrapbookers or something like that |
| geek_cybertao | June 30, 2009, 9:58 am | #20 | | From today's stuff.co.nz Eccentric billionaire, quater, has been spotted on the TM message boards again. Apparently discussing plans to start competitions to New Zealand's most dominant online auction site, Trade Me. Attempts to contact the reclusive finance wizard, who has previously been spotted asking how to copy xbox games and where to score free copies of M$ Windows, have once again been unsuccessful. |
| geek_hakatere1 | June 30, 2009, 10:53 am | #21 | | ^^^LOL ` |
| geek_quater | June 30, 2009, 6:04 pm | #22 | | Cybertao Fark your an idiot, Don't make friends well do ya... |
| geek_cybertao | June 30, 2009, 9:00 pm | #23 | | I'm sorry. Do you still want online auction code? I can list a USB stick for you, if you'd like. |
| geek_quater | June 30, 2009, 9:01 pm | #24 | | XXXXXXXXXXX . |
| geek_bit | June 30, 2009, 10:03 pm | #25 | | You wouldn't be the first one to set up in competition to TradeMe. But to get people to list on another auction site is a mamoth task. What's needed is a search engine that searches all NZ auction sites. That way any auctions on your site would recieve as many views as TradeMe auctions. This search tool would have to be available as a browser plugin - that'd be better than people having to go to a search site all the time as they might forget and revert to just visiting TradeMe. |
| geek_bit | June 30, 2009, 10:05 pm | #26 | | You follow me? The thing would be to convince people to install it. |
| geek_quater | June 30, 2009, 10:07 pm | #27 | | I have a plan But I need the site.... |
| geek_bit | June 30, 2009, 10:12 pm | #28 | | Just make sure you have legal advice re running an auction site, and competent programmers who are up with the play regards security issues. |
| geek_malachiman | June 30, 2009, 10:13 pm | #29 | | Good luck with that Apart from the initial build you would have ongoing modification and development for bugs and new features. |
| geek_bit | July 1, 2009, 7:10 pm | #30 | | Re 25,26 bump | |
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