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Originally Posted by Trev
Quite the opposite, someone who knows vbulletin well could clone xpeeps with ease.
Making it as successful as xpeeps is another animal altogether though.
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Actually, Trev is correct - anyone could build xpeeps, or something similar. Having the relationships and the branding to make it work is an entrely different story.
"With ease" - is a little light on the reality.
Just for fun, xPeeps has so far involved 4 programmers working full time, plus other people in marketing, IT, etc, and we're looking at around 20,000 man hours so far. There's probably another 5,000 man hours until we get it exactly as we want it.
It's more than just some templates and some DB changes - we've ripped out 90% of vbulletin core code because, frankly, it sucks ass for anything other than a message board. Non-relational data storage, inclusion of *everything* on every page, etc..
But yeah - creating an
application like xPeeps is not terribly hard. Creating a
product like xPeeps is pretty freakin' difficult!