Hello there,

after some time i want to take a second attempt to start a successful forum.
My idea was the following: A forum that allows for uncomplicated communication of ideas and allows users to sell their ideas to other foum users.

I set up my page with the help of a friend: my forum

I didnt take into account the problems to get the ball rolling; means I have no users

Note that there is no payment method right now, it is prettmuch only a normal forum.

Now to what i have planned to be the "second attempt" version:

In the region where i want to start, there is a company called Tobit that developed a software named "chanys".
One reason for me to use it is the adaption in my region, id guess atleast 70% of the people in a distance of 20 km have this app on their smartphone.
It is also adapted further i think they have serveral million downloads of their app.
It has imo also alot of features that will be helpful to my project for example:

-Accounting
-verification

• payment

Note: the "cayns" project is also open source.

"Cayns" offers also a website building tool to easily implement their features "chanys".
My easy hack (that describes my lvl of programming skills) would be to do an iframe onto my forum ^^.
I know thats really bad (and it doesnt work without changing settings).

What are other ways to make a better MVP?
Thank you!

@dave1904 maybe it is better to say x hours per week ?

Hi,

i am interested in employing a Softwaredeveloper that has what it takes to write plugins for NodeBB.
I am asking here, because I dont want to pay some party in between a ton of money.
I want to employ you directly as a parttime job. In germany this is more optimal for tax reasons etc. You should live in a EU country to make a deal more easy.
I plan that everyone can use these plugins, since this is an open scource project.

Pay would be 520€ per month, with meetings when needed. I will offer requirements lists to make the working experience more effective. Ofc the whole thing would be remote and in the end primarly the working plugin counts, not the woring hours.
If you are interested, contact me in this thread or per dm. Have a nice day

Hi, @phenomlab and @crazycells and @DownPW . Has someone time and the expertise for this that you know? My programmer is pretty buissy and a bit slow

@crazycells hi crazycells. Can you programm this? Im searching for someone!

Hi,

firefox and chrome offer in browser translation.

Thankx guys, i will link this thread to my programmer !!!

Hi everyone,

my goal is to have a plugin to get the average user opinion out of multiple polls.
The goal is to build up a community that stops the dividing of opinions and also to pressure the mainstream media into inviting people out of this community into talkshows.
They would then have a direct representative of the public opinion in a talkshow.

How it should work:

• 10 questions on current topics (politics)
• ranking of the people that voted based on how much they hit the average opinion
• contact the first 10 people (optional, could be done manually also I think?)

There would then be a request to the users to contact media outlets etc. to get one representative into talkshows for example.

i already forked the poll plugin.

github link

But im a very inexperinced programmer and I dont know if my time shedule allows for me trying to programm this.

Ofc I would pay, my goal is to have it up and running until 10th october 5 am CET.

@julian idk I didnt look at the profile, for me it is okay if this post gets deleted

@phenomlab okay I understand. Thanks again for the clarificaton. I might contact you again in the future if you are opend to that, for now i got some work to do .

@julian thank you for your answer. As phenomlab said the NDA would need a signment. If only the idea user has to sign the NDA, this would be an option.

So to speak email verified users can post into the „secure idea discussion“ category and only NDA signer and therefore passport verified users can look into the topics in this category

Is it possible to hide the content (from other users) in this category from the idea poster but allow them to post? I dont think there is this option in the admin panel.

@phenomlab i will have to look into the whole GDPR thing.

I would rather have a one sided NDA on the side of the idea user if thats possible, the tought behind that would be that the ideagiver of a good idea then has multiple people trying to make that idea a reality. Imagine there was a very good idea and the first person that stumbled on the idea would do a twosided NDA but is not capeable of realising that idea. This idea would be lost, since the ideagiver can not present others the idea. For me it would be optimal, if the ideagiver has the possibility to present the idea to multiple people (thats why i use a forum software).

Im not sure if there is a way to not store the passport data
What if the passport data can be written into the NDA and after that deleted on the forum server? The ideagiver would get the NDA document. I dont know if there needs to be a signment from both the ideagiver and the idea user. If thats the case I need to store the data. An argument for storing the data would also be usability

@phenomlab yes thats true with the GDPR. I havent put much thought on that but it could be an issue. The service i want to use encrypts the data and sends it to their customer (in his case my forum). Then it would be my duty to protect that data. Another way that comes to my mind would be that only the two contractors get some kind of digitaly signed document, so that the forum does not have to store this information.

@phenomlab for the specifics of a NDA i will have to consult a lawyer anyways. The good thing about the signiture with the passport would be that everyone in the EU has one, and that it resticts the usage to the EU also (i think it is hard to sue someone in china that used an idea without permission/paying). The bad thing about using the passport would be that atleast in germany it has to be activated via a mail by the authority. But adoption is rising since it is one way to do the tax return online.

I looking to use this process for digtal signature: https://authada.de/en/sign-sign-digitally/

@phenomlab Okay, so a digital signment would get the job done also, since it is legaly equivalent in the EU. I planned on doing a master sheet for the NDA that would have fields that can be filled with the relevant data for each case. This would be shown before the user loads a topic in the "secure idea discussion" category. Verification would be necessary for using this category.
It still isnt optimal because users can see the topic names when they are opening the category. But i guess that is also required for filling the fields of the master sheet.

I am indeed a bit worried about the whole legal thing since it has the potential to be a big as you say minefield.

@phenomlab this is very valuble advice for me. I didnt know that you would only need a ceckbox to have a legaly valid NDA signment. I will have to check that for the german law. Btw what if you make a NDA with companies from different countries that have differnt laws on this? Is there some international law? 🤨

@phenomlab thank you for your answer. How are the users in the verified group verified? I thought about using the passport verification because with that you would have a legal way to go after people that stole ideas because they are verified and digitaly signed the NDA. I think this feature would give users some security to post ideas. I am not sure if I understand you correctly with the manual addition. Do you mean that users could apply to get into the verified users group?