Scope Document
Today Gra and I are meeting with a development firm. We’re going to spend a few hours hashing out Web2Thing’s architecture so they can provide a scope document, and pricing. It’s going to be a fascinating exercise, because it’ll be the first time that we’ve described the service in great detail outside of our own cone of silence. Not only that, but within a week or so I’ll hopefully have something in written form that really explains in great detail what Web2Thing does now, and in the near future.
The real aim of course is to get some pricing so we can accelerate development. Gra has done an awesome job on the service so far–to a state where he and I can use it–but our plan is to launch with a great UI and several extra features. To do that, we need to bring in a few extra people.
July 27th, 2006 at 12:09 pm
No thought of going the Rentacoder route?
Molly
July 28th, 2006 at 10:35 am
Molly. I’ve thought about it, and still not ruled it out. The main issue I see is the quality of work, which could have severe scalability issues. I wouldn’t want to have the service taking off, and falling over because the code wasn’t optimum.
Having said that, has anyone had experience with rentacoder or similar services?
Rich