Coder Needed for Social Networking Website

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by bl4k • 16 years ago

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kurin• 16 years ago

Are these people deluding themselves, or just scamming?

bl4k• 16 years ago

x-post from reddit[1], the guy who took the screenshot said he received it on an MIT mailing list

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/enraz/coder_nee...

jpr• 16 years ago

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence"

When I first learned to program (err, actually just to press buttons in an IDE, anyway), I had a "great" idea how you could make a site like Facebook, just simpler and better. Thankfully the friend I explained my idea to was more sensible than me at the time.

illumen• 16 years ago

I think you've just described facebook - just like X just simpler and better.

elvirs• 16 years ago

somebody just watched The Social Network movie.

richardw• 16 years ago

Doubt it, or they would know that the coder runs away with the code. And the girls. And the money.

ffffruit• 16 years ago

Reminds me of those posts where people create a project on one of those outsourcing/freelancing sites like "I want an eBay clone" and people reply "Sure, no problem, 2 days - 50USD"

bjonathan• 16 years ago

Maybe it's from http://CollegeOnly.com/ ?

quellhorst• 16 years ago

Doubt it, the founders of CollegeOnly are from Princeton not MIT.

pepijndevos• 16 years ago

Amazing, only yesterday someone asked me to make him a social network "very similar to Facebook or Twitter" for his university, and what it would cost. He expected 50000 users and had his own savings to spend. Luckily he was happy after I showed him Ning, BuddyPress and StatusNet.

ra• 16 years ago

We've all heard similar propositions, but at least this request is written by an eloquent persuader who clearly has ambition; it includes social proof and trust factors.

Unfortunately naivety is something everybody has to work through.

donall• 16 years ago

3 years ago, I received a very similar e-mail to this on the grad student mailing list at my university. I was naive enough to respond.

I spent a year neglecting my PhD and churning out code for this "startup" while the founders moved gradually further away from the idea of a social network and towards something akin to the million dollar home page. When I eventually quit, they couldn't find anybody naive enough to replace me and none of the other three guys (2 marketing, 1 graphic design) knew the first thing about programming, so the whole thing imploded.

I learned some good lessons from the experience, though.

asanwal• 16 years ago

Don't see social proof or trust factors to be honest.

The reddest flag - "We expect 95% of college students will be active users within 4-8 months." And no insight into how they feel they can do this. Claiming market share of any kind is always tough. In 4-8 months, even more dubious.

Coder Needed for Social Networking Website

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