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02-11-2007, 06:36 PM
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Chances of success with...
I've been developing my own forum software for the past month and it's coming along great and everything is working as planned. It has alot of the features you see in vBulletin as standard features, but there are few other ones that come as standard and bit different then the others.
Examples:
- Instant Private Messaging
- Free image hosting per user (on/off)
- Friends list/ignor user
- Latest announcement on top of the forum (on/off)
- CMS - news, latest threads, etc. (on/off)
- Easy skinning ability
My pricing I'm looking at is $50 USD per year for lease, $110 USD for an owned license.
I'm just wondering if there's any chance of this being a success as and if you any of you have suggestions for features.
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02-11-2007, 06:38 PM
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Id say yes just make sure you dont get caught up with extra features and you make the forum itself have all the power of a VB. Skinning, Strong User management.. the list goes on and on.
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02-11-2007, 06:51 PM
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If you can prove that it is better/equal to vb and ipb then Im sure many people would use it. And also everyone in the web design business knows VB as a powerful and secure forum software so marketing is key too
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02-11-2007, 06:55 PM
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make it very much like vb and yes great success, also starting out may wanna offer a free version somehow or someway.
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02-11-2007, 06:59 PM
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I think you'd be best off making it Open Source. So you don't have to single-handedly search for and fix all security holes.
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02-11-2007, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Indy
I think you'd be best off making it Open Source. So you don't have to single-handedly search for and fix all security holes.
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agree'd, or maybe even start off open-source, then pull an ipb.
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02-11-2007, 07:28 PM
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Status: Senior Member
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Location: New Brunswick, Canada
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Yes I was planning on that, then offering paid versions down the road after it's quite well known, but those are the prices I'm looking at.
Thanks for the feedback so far I appreciate it alot.
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02-11-2007, 07:31 PM
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When can we see it live or at least beta?
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02-11-2007, 07:32 PM
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General discussion?
I don't know if this would work as vBulletin, IPB, phpBB, SMF and PunBB are already strong forum softwares in the industry.
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02-11-2007, 07:57 PM
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Status: Senior Member
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Live BETA date hasn't been set yet, but I would imagine not that far away.
Still going to give it a go Haris. It's something I've wanted to do for 2 years now and have just recently had alot of time to put it into action so I'm putting every spare second I have into making sure it gets done.
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