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Re: "Website like Amazon"

#31

... for $1,000 do you want it to scale as well or do you just want something faked that'll work for 1 concurrent user? Do you need full reporting and analytics? Load testing? Unit tests? etc.? Ridiculous.

You almost make it sound as if it could be done if you didn't care about scalability and "nice to haves". Make me the site he described, and have it work for only 1 user, even half the time, and I'll give you $1000 gladly.

Re: "Website like Amazon"

#32
post #5

I think this highlights the interesting lack of fundamental understanding by the general public about software and how complex and expensive it is. Intuitively people understand things like cars and laptops are expensive, time consuming and difficult to build requiring complex tools and machinery. This is not the case with software, where we see time and time again requests like "same as Facebook..." or "Same as Amaz…

I think this highlights the black market.

Re: "Website like Amazon"

#33

... for $1,000 do you want it to scale as well or do you just want something faked that'll work for 1 concurrent user? Do you need full reporting and analytics? Load testing? Unit tests? etc.? Ridiculous.

So the lack of consideration for the load testing was the part of that post that stood out to you?

Re: "Website like Amazon"

#34

... for $1,000 do you want it to scale as well or do you just want something faked that'll work for 1 concurrent user? Do you need full reporting and analytics? Load testing? Unit tests? etc.? Ridiculous.

No, no, no, no and no. This guy wants "Amazon" not "load testing". Do you honestly think he knows that load testing is?

Re: "Website like Amazon"

#35
wget --recursive --no-clobber --page-requisites --html-extension --convert-links --domains amazon.com --no-parent http://www.amazon.com/

There you go. 30.23.35.463, or 1J5dzkNu3SqPUSjerA1JSjvBjXgKktcz5Z if you prefer btc.

Thank you very much for your contribution.

Now all you need is some cheap hosting and you too can have a website like Amazon.

Re: "Website like Amazon"

#36
post #5

I think this highlights the interesting lack of fundamental understanding by the general public about software and how complex and expensive it is. Intuitively people understand things like cars and laptops are expensive, time consuming and difficult to build requiring complex tools and machinery. This is not the case with software, where we see time and time again requests like "same as Facebook..." or "Same as Amaz…

Agreed, developing software is complex and expensive, I think sometimes we jump the gun in thinking we do actually have to expend that effort.

Not referring to this request specifically but sometimes people just need pointing to something like webstore.amazon.com. This may well be a sufficient MVP for a customer who needs an e-commerce presence.

Re: "Website like Amazon"

#38
These roll through Stack Overflow pretty frequently too. I saw these just the other day:

"I am planning to create a site almost similar to freelancer in Dot Net. I was hoping to use some kind of open source if available also I am open to you suggestion for the same...."

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14868403/looking-to-creat...

"I really don’t know enough about web technologies to know the trade offs involved in using one language over another and I’m looking for some guidance as to how to go about developing what I need. I will actually be outsourcing the work but I want to be sure that the developer will be using the best mode possible and I will probably dictate the language to use."

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14863070/language-to-buil...

People are assholes.

Re: "Website like Amazon"

#39
Meet this all the time And people saying we have this big idea, we can't say what is is because we are afraid that you will take it (its that good). But how much does it cost us for you to create it?
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