Originally by: Nobues
If those who are worried about licensing issues (only while hosted under me will I give you a copy of VBB), I will make it workable using a free forum, like phpBB.
This would probably be an ideal solution. As a programmer I'm sure you understand the value of respecting the intellectual rights of other programmers. After all, they are not out to give their work away for free either. Speaking of which...
Originally by: Nobues
While yes I am out to make isk out this project, no I won't give it away also, I program for a living, and well some people rat to make isk, some people sell time codes to make isk, while I love to mine to make isk, but due to my job in real life I do not have time to do so, so I program to make isk (and let me say its more than I can mine per hr doing a 8 hr sift mining).
When I said do this for community donation I was suggesting what, to me, might seem the quickest and surest way for you to make a profit on your efforts. While you are trying to leverage your bestest ability and skills to create isk revenue you are still slave to the market that exists. You need to consider, especially with this forum, "your market".
Your market is currently well stocked with suitable tools that don't do everything you are programming but have been tried, tested, and proven true for many many many months and/or bug fixes. Though having a one stop multi-faceted all-in-one solution often sounds great "one-shot" solutions that are free trumps the "all-in-one".
(Also I tend to hate all in one solutions away from the workplace as you often get feature sets you don't need but can't get rid off. Since the last sentence is truly subjective for each person you have "all in one" annoyance not an "all in one" application.)
So please don't think I, and in review Mephi, were taking shots at you or your work or anything. Just mostly friendly pointers towards likelier success (in our minds from our perspectives) then a more frustrated path of success.
Ironically you can use the example of vBulletin and PhpBB to see what I'm talking about. I'm sure vBulletin generates some revenue for the owner(s) but you can't spit sideways, diagonally, and/or through some sort of inverted time/space butt plugged portal without hitting a couple hundred thousand PhpBB boards.
If only a fraction of those boards donated time, testers, and/or cash at the developers...
True success for new comers comes from making a "movement" not from making a singular thing. Various applications, stand alone or web based, have come and gone and only a very few remain. (EveMon is pretty much the oldest survivor, all othes are much younger.) The trick you really need to do is to start working on helping the community work towards common standards. (I.e. Create a coding community akin to the PhpBB community.)
Of course this would make it easier for entrant coders to step on your shoulders to some success but in Eve it is fame/infamy that can generate you more isk/resources/power then just this one application could. That's just my small opinion of where success might be grabbed. I don't code for a living so I could be very wrong. Only time will tell eh?