Real Life intrudes.....

Real Life (or Tiling the bathroom, kitchen next) tends to get in the way. You have an idea, in this case creating a project management web application for people involved in a cgcollab - Computer Graphics Collaboration.
I've long had a fascination with 3d modeling and rendering, it comes from being into games development (albeit at an amateur level). And after reading an article in an issue of 3D World, I figured creating an app to make the life of these collaborators easier would make an excellent exercise in coding a PHP web site. www.cgcollab.com
Anyway, I have managed to get off to a flying start, planning sections like storyboarding, concepts, asset management and tasks. Hell, I may even build in a way to publish a web site from the project, and as I'm also a web host......

Its going to take a dedicated server and plenty of bandwidth though. Maybe a few servers if it takes off. How to fund it is starting to nag at the back of my mind. I had envisioned a free service at one point, but that would just wind up being abused pretty quickly, not to mention costing me a fortune. Maybe advertising, but no, that's too annoying. I may just limit access and manually approve projects, thus try to ensure that only active projects get a go. But then again. Maybe a nominal fee, it would put off casual users, but shouldn't deter those who intend to use it.

Of course charging means it has to be worth the cost to the end user, or they simply wont stump up any cash. I think I have that covered though. My design is pretty comprehensive, and actively aimed at the target audience.

Oh well, I may as well get back to it.