Website Building Advice/Price (big project)

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Hey all,

I'm currently looking to start a new project that really has the potential to explode. I've done most of the basic prepping for a web developer, such as the basic purpose, features etc.

I run multiple websites but I've never been the type to build them, as such I'm never sure of acceptable pricing. This isn't a hit and run kinda thing, I'm looking to pay for quality, reliability and service.

The main element of the website would need to behave in a similar way to Woocommerce. We will be selling a lot of digital products but I expect a lot of custom work would be required. Certain users need to be able to upload files and enter various parameters as well as assign tags and such before requiring approval from an admin to appear on the website.

Other registered members will also need to be assigned varying levels of accessibility. The easiest way to explain it is that some individuals should be able to post a digital item on a private page only accessible to another particular group. So a general market for 1 group of users, and then a second between an individual and another type of group. Sorry, I realize this is not the best description lol

Outside of the Woocommerce features, we're also looking for someone very experienced with the Twitch API as it will be heavily involved in the website including register/login, adding a personal page to an account and also tracking specific stats of certain channels and broadcasting messages across a bot network on command.

There's a LOT more to it but I've tried to highlight the aspects I feel would be more expensive/time consuming.

On a side note, does anyone know of a really good source of legal advice? I need someone experience with the internet that can read through privacy and usage documents and then tell me if X or X is allowed/possible.
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  • Profile picture of the author ghoulryan
    Hello SoloSmith,

    In what way would it require to behave the same way as the WooCommerce website? Are you intending to use wordpress as a framework? All I can gather is that you require a website that requires the upload and download capability between different groups. For example, video members can share and download videos and music members can share and download music between each specific group only?

    To be honest I believe a reasonable developer, if you have already done the requirements specification, they would remove it from their hourly charge and then they would Gantt chart the rest of the steps based on previous knowledge of the time it takes and provide a price based on their hourly rate of all steps that the Gantt chart calculated, including assets required.

    You should provide a list of all features that you intend to implement so they can all be calculated. Any cost of required commercial plugins could also be added onto the cost as required assets.

    I would not concern yourself too much with finding a Twitch API expert, but more with finding an expert on the type of technologies that the Twitch API utilizes.

    That being said I believe you need:

    A framework such as Wordpress (I am not recommending)
    An access control list plugin
    A role management plugin
    A file upload and download plugin
    A good theme and a twitch plugin

    Then ask a developer to connect them all together to your needs.
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  • Profile picture of the author SoloSmith
    Hey Ghoul

    Thanks for your thorough reply! My next question was going to involve the delivery of the idea to the webmaster as I'm not sure where they would start. I meant the buy/sell aspect of Woocommerce, sorry if I was unclear.

    Other than Wordpress, is there anything else you think would be a good fit? Also, would you happen to know what kind of skill I will need to look for in a webmaster that can use the Twitch API and program an mIRC bot?

    Thanks again!
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