netppl.de/mike

Anyway, it was more meant like a joke.

Soeben ging die Auktion auf Ebay zu Ende, der Endstand: 43.208,00€
Na, eine ganz schön stolze Summe, aber natürlich nicht zu vergleichen mit den Verkäufen der Web2.0 von Übersee.
Bei anderen Seiten wird schon heftigst diskutiert.
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to create a new twitter clone?

do you think that make sense?

I guess Jesus is too busy.

- they have no active users

and
i would build this site excl the design in less then 24h too (and iam not jesus ) based on a my own user-management framework

so 15k is much too much

So I can understand the point of developing but not starting the project live.

http://twittown.com

Not every project has to be available in English to be profitable. On the other hand, it should not be too difficult to develop the project with internationality in mind. However, for a small team it can be right to start smaller (seems like there are only 3 of them).

Not everyone has the money to invest too much in such a project.

But, I can’t understand how someone can bid 15.000 Euro for such a project , which has not been launched yet and you can’t see the code. Especially the fact that they are selling on Ebay seems very strange to me.

I think that this was built by a bunch of students and now the project is to expensive (beside private reasons, that is what they state).

To me this auction does not make a very professional impression. The way how they try to sell this is just ridiculous. Some passages sound very funny:

- “dukudu.de ist wesentlich besser durchdacht, geplant und umgesetzt.”
–> Yes, of course! Or would anyone tell that the website is worse than twitter?

- “Das System wurde von einer professionellen Agentur, die viele Jahre Erfahrung mit großen Projekten und Skalierbarkeit hat umgesetzt.”
–> A professional agency? Hmmm, I couldn’t find much about this strange Ranaro GmbH. Seems like they do not have a website…

- “dukudu.de wurde noch nicht offiziell gestartet und beworben. Wir haben lediglich eine öffentliche BETA-Phase durchgeführt. Bezüglich Bewerbung und Positionierung stehen Ihnen also noch alle Möglichkeiten offen.”
–> Nice try to sell the fact that this website is still in closed BETA as something positive.

- vom Anwalt erstellte AGB und Datenschutzbestimmungen
–> Yippieee, they are selling their terms& conditions plus the data protection info (it was made by a real lawyer!!!)

Well, we could go on with this…

If they would have put just a little bit more effort into the auction text…

@Jesus: Just come by. I have a few projects for you, which you can program for me. If you can do this dukudu thing in 25h you are my man.

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Having said that, I’ve made exactly the same mistake in the past. I developed a fairly major site and focused on building up a user base in my home country. Unfortunately it didn’t take off in a huge way. I had a couple of interested parties contact my about licensing the site for use in their home (non English-speaking) countries, but without that technology built right into the platform it was not a feasible proposition.

The slight effort it takes to prepare for a multilingual audience when developing a site greatly increases your chances of reaching critical mass *somewhere* in the world. Orkut is the classic example of this.