Portal Concept in PHP

**Michael Phipps** · Aug 11 '05, 07:15 AM

Re: Portal Concept in PHP

>I have this concept I throwing together. It is not professional or[color=blue]
>anything, just something I thought might be interesting. The concept is
>business(me) - to - consumer. It is, What did you buy?. You log into this
>site and describe purchases you might have made over time.[/color]
[color=blue]
> Whatever...you submit that and you get to analyze this stat against
> other's user's Tommy purchase for example.
>
> What do you think.
>
> http://newspiritcompany.com/buydesign01.html[/color]

I think I'd be more interested in finding out how much I should pay before I
purchase, rather than finding out I spent $20 more than I should have after
I purchased.

Hardest part would be getting enough people's spending data to make the
stats useful. Some people don't like having the purchases tracked. Other
people will mispell brands, names of items - how are you going to teach the
computer that two differently spelt items are the same thing? Sounds like a
lot of maintenance...

And with all that time you're going to spend collating and maintaining that
data - how is it going to pay you back? There's no point getting obsesed
with something like this that could easily take all your free time, if
theres no money (which you'll need to pay your bills)

**Ramza Brown** · Aug 11 '05, 12:15 PM

Re: Portal Concept in PHP

Michael Phipps wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>>I have this concept I throwing together. It is not professional or
>>anything, just something I thought might be interesting. The concept is
>>business(me ) - to - consumer. It is, What did you buy?. You log into this
>>site and describe purchases you might have made over time.[/color]
>
>[color=green]
>>Whatever...yo u submit that and you get to analyze this stat against
>>other's user's Tommy purchase for example.
>>
>>What do you think.
>>
>>http://newspiritcompany.com/buydesign01.html[/color]
>
>
> I think I'd be more interested in finding out how much I should pay before I
> purchase, rather than finding out I spent $20 more than I should have after
> I purchased.
>
> Hardest part would be getting enough people's spending data to make the
> stats useful. Some people don't like having the purchases tracked. Other
> people will mispell brands, names of items - how are you going to teach the
> computer that two differently spelt items are the same thing? Sounds like a
> lot of maintenance...
>
> And with all that time you're going to spend collating and maintaining that
> data - how is it going to pay you back? There's no point getting obsesed
> with something like this that could easily take all your free time, if
> theres no money (which you'll need to pay your bills)
>
>
>[/color]

Just a fun project. Yea, at first it sounds kind of silly. But, if you
look at the tagging sites that are out there, for example technorati.
The misspellings and all that are irrelevant, because you have thousands
of other queries.

And for security issues, I hope people don't want to enter exact
information. Like, "I bought some condoms for $4.00 for my nightout
with a hooker".

I want something that normal consumers might be interested in. I may
have to tweak my concept a little bit.

I am just doing this for fun, right now, I have put in zero resources,
so I am not worried about time.

--
Ramza from Atlanta

http://www.newspiritcompany.com

**Ramza Brown** · Aug 11 '05, 06:05 PM

Re: Portal Concept in PHP

Ramza Brown wrote:[color=blue]
> Michael Phipps wrote:
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> I have this concept I throwing together. It is not professional or
>>> anything, just something I thought might be interesting. The concept
>>> is business(me) - to - consumer. It is, What did you buy?. You log
>>> into this site and describe purchases you might have made over time.[/color]
>>
>>
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Whatever...you submit that and you get to analyze this stat against
>>> other's user's Tommy purchase for example.
>>>
>>> What do you think.
>>>
>>> http://newspiritcompany.com/buydesign01.html[/color]
>>
>>
>>
>> I think I'd be more interested in finding out how much I should pay
>> before I purchase, rather than finding out I spent $20 more than I
>> should have after I purchased.
>>
>> Hardest part would be getting enough people's spending data to make
>> the stats useful. Some people don't like having the purchases
>> tracked. Other people will mispell brands, names of items - how are
>> you going to teach the computer that two differently spelt items are
>> the same thing? Sounds like a lot of maintenance...
>>
>> And with all that time you're going to spend collating and maintaining
>> that data - how is it going to pay you back? There's no point getting
>> obsesed with something like this that could easily take all your free
>> time, if theres no money (which you'll need to pay your bills)
>>
>>
>>[/color]
>
> Just a fun project. Yea, at first it sounds kind of silly. But, if you
> look at the tagging sites that are out there, for example technorati.
> The misspellings and all that are irrelevant, because you have thousands
> of other queries.
>
> And for security issues, I hope people don't want to enter exact
> information. Like, "I bought some condoms for $4.00 for my nightout
> with a hooker".
>
> I want something that normal consumers might be interested in. I may
> have to tweak my concept a little bit.
>
> I am just doing this for fun, right now, I have put in zero resources,
> so I am not worried about time.
>[/color]

Ok, I am changing a little bit, "Where are your numbers?" I will make
it a little bit more generic.

--
Ramza from Atlanta

http://www.newspiritcompany.com

Portal Concept in PHP

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