I've been toying around with a couple of ideas recently and I have a couple of projects in the works but taking these on alone may not be the best option given the work involved and being freelance, I don't have any colleagues to share with. I'm also looking for new opportunities to collaborate with others within the industry. Let's start with what I'm doing.
For a while now, I've wanted to start producing Wordpress themes and I'm always looking for some unique approach to pushing them out there, something different to what everybody else seems to be doing. If I was going to give them away, I would want them higher quality than the other free ones out there, on par with the 'premium' ones available. In that scenario, I would need some other way of possibly monetizing the project further down the line without completely giving up on the free idea. If I was going to sell them, I would most definitely need a unique selling point besides theme quality as the majority out right now claim to offer this 'premium' service but very few follow up on that promise.
Setting up and running something like this would take a fair bit of work, especially to get the initial amount of themes ready for download. Something that I would want to share with one or two others rather than attempt on my own. I'm not looking for some initial help, more so a couple of partners that are interested in the long term running of the site or service.
The other project I have started is an online community for designers and developers. This may not be so easy to get some help with as I know most of you are too busy to spare the time that is required in running something like this. I am currently in stages of theme development for the software and have already got the majority of the site set up. In this case, I'm looking for one other person to run the site with me as an administrator. Bearing in mind there is a fair bit of trust involved in handing over this kind of access, I will be looking for somebody that I know to a certain degree or somebody that I at least know I can trust. Community experience would be the main thing I looked for but above that are more importantly, interest in the community. There would be no point in having somebody with great experience that simply doesn't believe in the idea or doesn't want to become part of the community.
If you are interested in anything I've talked about above, please contact me for further information and I'll get back to you shortly. With my requests out of the way, I want to know if you are doing any interesting projects and if there's anything I could possibly help out with? I'm always happy to work with new people and help push new products out there so let me know if you think we could work together on something. I'm not looking for paid work here, just offering my help to those that feel I would be a good fit for their projects.
That about wraps up here and from now on, I'm going to try and keep to a weekly schedule for updating the site as I tend to let it slip from time and time and want to bring back some consistency. So get in touch and let's start building some stuff!
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