[thelist] AUCTION SOFTWARE

> >I actually have a fairly promising auction program in the shelves right
> >here. It is a Perl/MySQl based auctioning software project and I worked
on
> >it for quite a while for some company but then they blew off the deal and
> >thanks to the contract I had some apparently bad lawyer set up, I
couldn't
> >cash in on my work. It has some nice features that even eBay hasn't, but
it
> >also lacks some other features eBay _does_ have.
>
> give it away
> give it away
> give it away
> give it away now

from "All around the world" by the RHCP If I'm correct.

> michiel, i am not suggesting that you give it to evolt if you think you
can
> still sell it and/or your services to implement it elsewhere...

Well, I'm not going to give it away completely but the plan I had was
selling the license for a lot of money or sell it for just a few bucks and
then making the customization the part where they have to pay. I could also
give it away for free and then still make money off of customizing it. Any
tips on cashing in on something like this are more than welcome, because I
did intend to either sell or license it to compensate for the time and money
that I put into it.

> could you write a tutorial about some part of designing it that might help
> someone else undertaking to build/customize an auction site?

Yes, I could just start "re"writing the docs. It's a really exciting
undertaking and absolutely not easy to implement, but the structure I have
(had) can certainly be useful to others.

Then on the other hand, if there are any patent guys on the list?

It has a certain feature that's very new and I haven't found a single other
auction site, even though it's fairly obvious. I know it's bad netiquette,
but just releasing this feature to the public would make my lose my main
advantage. That's why I would need to put it in a separate professional
edition or something. I would be willing to give it away for free and even
start incorporating templates which it currently lacks ( intentionally done
so regarding the customization idea ) if someone could help me out with my
idea.

Well, I'll start working on the tutorial sometime soon and I'll see about
the rest.

BTW, merry christmas to whomever reads this, as this list has been _really_
quiet the last 12 hours.