Web Development

Do you have any relevant experience or notable past projects? Are any past employers willing to vouch for you? Do you have a personal website and/or code repository such as github or Codeberg?

Versions and categories. Does a category mean a comic, and a version mean a language? Are files uploaded in bulk?

So, the comic is an anthology and there could be categories for each: writer / lead artist, available language, and storyline. For example, Chapter 1 on the site (or rather, Issue 1) is the first chapter in part of "The Tabula Sophonic" storyline, the lead artist is FiniteBanjo, and the available languages are English and German. Issue 2 is a standalone chapter for "Head of the Company", lead artist is someone else, available languages are also English and German. This information should be visible to users browsing the archive and there should be a database table or perhaps a simple file storing this information about every chapter. Uploaded files are images named number 1 through X, generally uploaded in bulk and ideally should be stored in separate files.

Blog and news.

Blog doesn't require images and includes long form posts from the team about whatever they feel like talking about. News entries require thumbnails and are short but important updates such as upcoming deadlines, schedule changes, collaborations, team members joining or leaving, licensing changes, etc.

Achievements.

Well, nothing really required, but I guess chapters owned, chapters read, time spent reading, comments made, upvotes on comments, Patron status, user found the hidden page, user tried to break the rules by accessing something they shouldn't, etc.

Access control.

You understood it well. I could probably help out a little bit with the Parteon API if you have any trouble with the implementation, but I've confirmed the necessary capability is there: check patrons, check patron emails, send patron messages individually. This should hopefully be the only API we have to worry about on this project.

Appearance. Do you have mock-ups, particularly for the landing page and the about-us page?

Me and the team are mulling over our options currently, but it's vitally important to get quotes now and begin the fundraising process with which to fund the development and the fulltime artwork in a few months time. While we certainly COULD proceed without that, it would put us at a pretty big personal risk.

We probably want a sort of modernist approach where light mode is clean white with black boxes and text, sharp edges, and dark mode would be a grey with white lettering and perhaps teal boxes. We do NOT want to sacrifice utility / usability for visuals. Some of the site will utilize a proprietary font that I own, but for the most part Atkinson Hyper-legible will be used.

Mobile and Firefox. I daily-drive Fennec on Android, Firefox on Windows and Falcon on Debian

While it's not exactly as accurate, there is a firefox tool in the hamburger menu under more tools > Responsive Design mode that allows you to emulate various device ratios such as iPhone, Laptop, Tablet, Pixel, etc. so as far as visuals we should be good on compatibility. Would you be able to add a banner and notification if a user accesses the site from Chromium to tell them they're in an unsupported browser?

I know that developers of many libraries and tools do allow AI contributions, for example it’s in Valibot and Vite, to which I don’t know good alternatives.

I'm okay with library dependencies using it, although I'd be willing to search for a better solution but I don't think it's really economically feasible at the moment to be limiting our options. I am really interested in Fresh from UseFresh.dev but idk anything about it aside from being similar to a React.js project that I've worked on in the past but I gave up on trying to build it myself after a while. EDIT: Fresh uses Vite as well.

My ballpark estimate is 120 hours for the initial release with the features you mentioned. Programming further updates to the website can be negotiated as needed. From what I found $58/hour

EDIT: Other quotes I've gotten are $5,000 / $14,000 / $15,000 / $38,000 so the $7,000 estimate actually seems really low by comparison. Clearly the amount of features I've requested are quite challenging.

Almost $7,000 then. Might be doable, we'll keep this number in mind when we launch fundraising. We'll probably have to put forward our own money to make it happen, most successful crowdfunding campaigns are less than $9,000 total and we're already way over that amount with just the artist team's wages for the first couple of chapters.

In case the website ever shuts down, can you then release the code with a free software license?

100% I'll be sure to put that in writing when we decide on a contractor.

For further contact

You can reach me at finitebanjo@yahoo.com for now I'd appreciate you and other users from this post reach out to me there for future inquiries. If you need an encrypted communication app as a hard requirement then I can look into DeltaChat but I've never heard of it before today so I'm not really sure about it just yet.

Nah, I'll sit idle and fucking die before I use it. Never shall I ever hire a soul who has drunk from the well that is AI for anything requiring thinking. I've declined 9 proposals for simply saying "AI is a tool with specific uses" lmfao nope.

You have to understand, here, I'm placing myself and my team's jobs and aspirations in the hands of a developer, if they failed to deliver competent well made product then it uses our limited resources up and leaves us with nothing. I have to set bare minimum standards.