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I am a successful NYC based serial entrepreneur starting a niche social ecommerce website with enormous profit potential. The site is already fully designed in photoshop files and I have detailed storyboards demonstrating exactly how the site will work. Your pay to build the first version of the website will be $10,000 USD and/or generous % ownership of the website (plus an ongoing monthly fee for you to perform any necessary maintenance on the site and make sure is remains up and running smoothly). This is a freelance/contract position.

As the site's CTO/Developer, you will be entirely responsible for taking my PSD files and storyboards and then building them into a fully functional website. I’m open to discussing a larger budget if you feel you can’t program everything yourself and need to outsource some of the grunt work to additional onshore or offshore developers.

From a pure tech POV, my site is a clone of overstock.com with some niche/clever/profitable social features built on top of it (and of course a totally different design). By a overstock.com clone, I mean that when a user clicks on a product they are interested in buying, my site will give the user the option to buy it directly from my website AND also show the user prices that other ecommerce sites are selling the same product for. Please see this overstock.com screen shot for an example= http://bit.ly/dVFmCY

When a user buys an item directly from my site I plan to use services like doba.com and other drop ship suppliers to instantly supply and ship the item (allowing my site to keep a totally “virtual” inventory of physical products). To let users compare prices other sites are selling a product for before buying the product directly from my site, I plan to use the API/affiliate-programs of large ecommerce sites such as amazon.com, bestbuy.com, ebay.com and so on.

I am guessing the site could be built pretty quickly using a combination of Ruby on Rails, Magento, Lucene/Nutch, Java and/or Javascript, MySQL and more. HOWEVER, I will use whatever programing language, open source software, licensed software and so on that YOU the CTO/Developer feel is best for the project. Getting the site built as quickly as possible and the ability to make quick/agile changes on the fly (without having to sacrifice code quality or scalability) is very important to me.

Although this is a freelance/contract position, I will give you the option to come on full time at a later date if you absolutely fall in love with the project. Look forward to hearing from you (and totally blowing your mind when you see the full idea, storyboards and PSDs !!!:)

Developer requirements are as followed:

1. Web firms please don't apply. I am only interested in hiring a single freelance CTO/Developer.

2. Must be based in or near New York City.

3. Must have understanding of how to technically integrate with drop ship suppliers. (Experience working with complex ecommerce related Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) systems is a major plus.)

4. Must have understanding of how to combine the APIs/affiliate-programs from many different ecommerce websites into a single “mashup” on my site.

5. Must have technical understanding of Facebook and Twitter integration.

6. A major plus (but, not a requirement) would be experience working at an ecommerce website carrying over 100k different products and/or “virtual” drop ship inventory.

Cheers!

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