I’m trying to put together a site that’ll do a number of different things. I’ve got a Scoop installation running on a server, got someone looking at the actual design and so on (ie look etc). And now I’m facing the problem that I don’t know enough about Scoop (or any other form of programming) to work on the structure.

What I need is not someone to do programming (anything that can’t be done within Scoop as it is won’t be done) but to structure Scoop so that it’ll do what is needed.

This will turn into a paying job: advertising revenue will be spent on more programming, more structural changes to increase the functionality of the site.

So, if you know how to use Scoop, or are interested in learning how to do so, please drop me a line.

The things I want it to do.

1) I’ve got a small blog called the 419er blog. I’ve just posted up a hundred odd of the various scams I’ve received in my email, along with very brief descriptions of what the scam is and why they should be avoided. I’m getting a few hundred hits a day and three or four emails from people asking whether something really is a scam or thanking me for pointing out that it is before they send off any money.

I want to expand this. So that you can add anything you come across, and link to the description of how that specific scam actually works.

2) Reviews. Amazon takes forever to add reviews and most don’t actually get added at all. So a simple database of reviews of whatever people want to review.  Submit what you wish. The only major difference between this and any of the other sites will be that the reviewer adds the Amazon (or any other affiliate site) link to their own account, not the site’s. Once a certain level of traffic is reached we expect to get things offered to us to review. I already get books sent to me on the basis of my, by world standards, low traffic levels. We’ve already got a system in place to handle this.

3) There’s a series of other similar things bubbling away in my mind. All depend upon reader or blogger submitted material (I assume that it would be cross-posted, not exclusive material), upon Scoop’s multiple levels of authorisation and the possibility of building almost an open source newspaper.

4) I’ve already got an agreement with a syndication service (photos to begin with, text to follow) for material from such a site to be offered to newspaper and magazine editors. It might be interesting for those bloggers who want to sell their work to use such cross-posting as an advertisement: certainly, we expect editors to be interested in knowing that there is one site  they can look at to find those wishing to sell.

5) We’ve got several people round the world (Far East, US, UK) and in certain vertical sectors (technology etc) interested in pushing this. Sorta like section editors or perhaps evangelists to their readers. Current daily page hits of those involved is around 50/60k.

So, anyone out there interested in a bit of freebie work?  Scoop already has all the functionality we need built in. What is needed is simply to work out how it works, get that functionality actually, err functioning. As soon a there is revenue it’ll be used to pay for more work to keep the site expanding and growing.

Well, anyone?