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Maybe if they do a good job on the app...we could outsource the entire game to them? Or atleast a massively improved version of it.....

Haha, wishful thinking ;)

I have a friend who is involved in some venture capital businesses, maybe I should ask him to invest in this game :D

I don´t think that buying out is what users should worry about, really.

I agree.
Only legit question is what kind development is planned for the site I guess. Regardless of how.

I guess there are no plans - just another decent idea, going nowhere...

As a facebook game I think that it would be dumb down and ruined on some level. The balance of this game is pretty good and you really have to be careful about making any major changes to it.

The mobile app idea is very good though and something i would pay for

As RiP already noted, indeed there were some discussions about this before.

I think there are some nice ideas here, but as you know development costs are high - always. You'll have to make a tradeoff between quality and costs, and without offending anyone - BB is a complicated system that unfortunately often requires some basic level of quality of which I don't know we can expect from some of the emerging SE-Asia economies at the pricelevel that would be correct.

What features would you suggest to be the core of an application? Of course, there may also be another option of the project trying to fund itself, by releasing a very basic version of the application that offers just the core essential functionalities and if this app could raise revenue through ads - or maybe even through a small price in the appstores, functionalities may be added later.

Seeing the numbers in this topic, though, I do think most underestimate the price of such applications. You cant expect much for the $3-5k you mentioned earlier, even if completely made and managed in India.

Last edited by BB-Patrick at 4/6/2012 5:52:31 PM

Seeing the numbers in this topic, though, I do think most underestimate the price of such applications. You cant expect much for the $3-5k you mentioned earlier, even if completely made and managed in India.

The sum was a rough estimate given to me by a friend who has a small software company, however she is specialized in different areas so this number might be inaccurate.

I was thinking that significant parts of the development could be done by users of our community and only part of the app should be coded by a third party, thats the crowdsourcing part of the app - maybe a team could provide the graphics, detailed layout, whatsoever... I have no clue about IT...

I like the idea. I resent the notion that I don't know what an app is, though, especially since you didn't mention the word "mobile". Now that I pushed that out of the way, on to the specifics...

$3-5k could be enough for a basic app, depends on the features. I guess the most important parts of the app should be the abilities to check your finances, search the TL and bid on players, set your next lineup. I'll leave the specific feature list to you guys. Since I don't have outsourcing experience, I can't really say for sure it would be enough.

On the development end, we'd have to do a substantial amount of work on our part. We can't outsource the db queries which are needed for the project (since it's critical to have them optimized and we don't want to give DB access), but I'd be happy to put in the work from our side. It's a valuable project and I think it's worth it. Also, that means that the overall price for the project could be substantially lower, since a lot of work would be already done.

The bottom line - you have my support.