Price of HQ's Fundraising Ticker

[Ronin]

Any web developers have any idea how many hours it should take to make a ticker similar to what the campaign site has?

 

[nate895]

They were probably already paying them anyway, it probably wasn't much.

 

[rvkpa]

You could probably get it done for about 6 hours at $100 an hour if the developer has prior knowledge of the paypal payments API. For someone without experience, it'd probably be 24 hours at a lower rate and cost more. If you have additional reporting and administrative requirements the price/hours go up. I have resources at my company with the knowledge to deliver on that first estimate. I'm sure it's a fairly common request. If you want it REALLY cheap, ($12 an hour) you could offshore it on rentacoder.com or a similar service.

 

[Ronin]

PM sent

 

[nullvalu]

I am a professional web/app developer and could tell you that would take well more than 6 hours to develop. I'd guess closer to at least 20 hours for full paypal integration, flash development & database work. Add a couple more for deployment & integration into an existing website.

 

[nullvalu]

Then again, it looks like someone from our site has one on their website, Brent Sanders: http://www.joinsanders.com, may want to follow up with his web developer.

 

[Ronin]

I am a professional web/app developer and could tell you that would take well more than 6 hours to develop. I'd guess closer to at least 20 hours for full paypal integration, flash development & database work. Add a couple more for deployment & integration into an existing website.

Most of the back end stuff I can do myself. I'm mainly interested in the flash GUI. I'm assuming the flash piece doesn't hit paypal directly but rather hits the web server.

 

[Ronin]

Then again, it looks like someone from our site has one on their website, Brent Sanders: http://www.joinsanders.com, may want to follow up with his web developer.

Thanks, guess I'll have to donate now

 

[nullvalu]

Most of the back end stuff I can do myself. I'm mainly interested in the flash GUI. I'm assuming the flash piece doesn't hit paypal directly but rather hits the web server.

Yep I'd guess there are backend scripts populating a database somewhere and the flash just reads from it somehow. I'm not a frontend person tho either.

 

[szczebrzeszyn]

Most of the back end stuff I can do myself. I'm mainly interested in the flash GUI. I'm assuming the flash piece doesn't hit paypal directly but rather hits the web server.

Yes, it's hitting the web server for a simple text data (sort of csv) to feed the widget
Pretty common practice

 

[Drknows]

Then again, it looks like someone from our site has one on their website, Brent Sanders: http://www.joinsanders.com, may want to follow up with his web developer.

Yes this is me.

I can do it but im tied down with 2 other projects at the moment.


You have a backend script set up already?

 

[Ronin]

Yes this is me.

I can do it but im tied down with 2 other projects at the moment.


You have a backend script set up already?

Don't worry, this project is months out. Just trying to get a ballpark. I don't even have a website yet, much less a payment system

 

[TruthAtLast]

Most of the back end stuff I can do myself. I'm mainly interested in the flash GUI. I'm assuming the flash piece doesn't hit paypal directly but rather hits the web server.

Yes. I'm very familiar with the PayPal API and that is the easiest part to integrate. The Flash design should be easy for any decent vector designer unless you want some more fancy 3D animations or something. But if you know the basic ActionScript calls to check the database for updates, that's all you need. The whole thing really is easier than it looks.

 

[jason43]

I actually recommended this, based on Howard Dean using something like it.

*pats self on back*

 

[me3]

Not to step on anyone's toes, but you can always put in a project bid request at Rent-A-Coder.


http://www.rentacoder.com

I've had flash work, by Eastern Europeans, done quite cheaply before.

The only thing you will need to be able to do, is adequately write out a spec, and provide examples.

 

[slamhead]

Here is the data feed for this widget.

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/webservices/REST/donation.stats

 

[Rhys]

I think we need to make an opensource widget. The frontend would be easiest. all it needs to do is animate the total minus say 2k. xml could handle the webservice and .net could make the webservice in about 3 minutes once you have the class.

 

[gregb]

I'm actually making one for a Ron Paul related site - I should have it done today (tonight) and I'll make it available.

 

[freedominnumbers]

You could always just work with the company who designed Ron Paul's campaign site. I forgot who it was, but someone already had a very similar site designed by them with the widget and everything.

 

[Rhys]

greg, did you have any luck?