Cost/Effort for website?

[david123]

Hi guys,
again, I have some small business idea, related to BTC of course. What gives me the biggest headache is how
to build together some website. In design and complexity, it should be similar to one of the many mining oulets,
e.g. hashflare.io or genesis-mining.com, but I expect a much smaller load (at the beginning at least^^).

In particular, I need
- a customers area with login, 2-FA, a nice dashboard, ability to reset password and sometimes
automated notifications via email (so I guess I will have to run a mail server)
- a database in the back, where some (not much) customer's data is stored
- some automated BTC-adress generation (for deposit adresses) and transaction generation (for handling
withdrawal requests from customers) and querying balances, stuff like that...

Can someone advise me how difficult it is to get such a thing running? (I have some background in IT, but
mainly oldschool stuff. Like C++. Never tried webdesign..)
How costly would it be to have it done externally? (I don't like the idea so much, but if it would be too much
of a hassle...)

I want to add that I don't want to set up a cloudmining site nor an exchange, nor sth illegal. It's just a small
idea which would mainly cater to btctalk-members and would almost certainly not yield a lot of profit.
Another reason why I don't want to spend a lot of bucks for some professional webdesign company 

Thanks

[spiker777]

Hi guys,
again, I have some small business idea, related to BTC of course. What gives me the biggest headache is how
to build together some website. In design and complexity, it should be similar to one of the many mining oulets,
e.g. hashflare.io or genesis-mining.com, but I expect a much smaller load (at the beginning at least^^).

In particular, I need
- a customers area with login, 2-FA, a nice dashboard, ability to reset password and sometimes
automated notifications via email (so I guess I will have to run a mail server)
- a database in the back, where some (not much) customer's data is stored
- some automated BTC-adress generation (for deposit adresses) and transaction generation (for handling
withdrawal requests from customers) and querying balances, stuff like that...

Can someone advise me how difficult it is to get such a thing running? (I have some background in IT, but
mainly oldschool stuff. Like C++. Never tried webdesign..)
How costly would it be to have it done externally? (I don't like the idea so much, but if it would be too much
of a hassle...)

I want to add that I don't want to set up a cloudmining site nor an exchange, nor sth illegal. It's just a small
idea which would mainly cater to btctalk-members and would almost certainly not yield a lot of profit.
Another reason why I don't want to spend a lot of bucks for some professional webdesign company 

Thanks

Hi,

I can build something you described above but I have some questions about it. I've sent you a PM.

Thanks.

[BitcoinNewsMagazine]

Consider doing it yourself with Wordpress and WooCommerce. Check out WooCommerce to see if it has plugins sufficient for your needs.

[sweetdesirez]

Consider doing it yourself with Wordpress and WooCommerce. Check out WooCommerce to see if it has plugins sufficient for your needs.

Agreed, whatever the op asks for can be achieved in WordPress except the auto generation of btc address for deposits, which can be achieved by third party plugins or can be incorporated using some custom integration of bitcoin configurations.

[avatar_kiyoshi]

- You can use website template for the website interface.
Add 2FA, reset password with email confirmation can be found if you googling more, for example Add 2FA for your site.
- Use asp.net web page to create the database or you can store the data without database with HTML5.
- To create automatic bitcoin address, you need jsonrpc interface: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/API_reference_(JSON-RPC)
PHP example: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/PHP_developer_intro

I think you need to learn more about web programming, try w3schools or codecademy.

[david123]

Thanks for your advises, I thought that templates are not sufficient for such a
project, but as you all say otherwise, I will check out wordpress and woocommerce then.
I thank kiyoshi especially, these keywords give me a hint where to start with
further research. I agree that I need to spend some time learning the basics of
web programming first..

I will keep this updated if I make progress, maybe I'm not the only one around interested
in starting such a project

[R.Hasan]

Download programming course html5 and css3 and java script3, in 2 weeks you will know how to make a very beautiful website and you will only need 20 $ or less to pay domino and hosting, then you post articles about Bitcoin and enter Adsense, you can advertise your site here and you can partner with many great sites. You do not need a lot of money to do this, you need the courage to never give up

[david123]

Yeah, I think the same, but this takes time, and I'm currently reading into this. As per avatar_kiyoshi's advice,
I'm starting with codecademy.com for the moment.
However, I'm not interested in a news site for bitcoin. There are so many already. Pheeew..

[valentinbora]

I am not entirely sure what the purpose of your website is, and what kind of traffic you expect over time.

Could you maybe elaborate on these points so I can get a better idea of your goals and ambitions?

A website can range anywhere between $400 and upwards of $20k.

[david123]

Yeah, I think I should have said more about it. I wanted to automatize
the escrow process which is handled on a case-by-case basis in this
forum.
In the meantime I found a site (called escrowmybits) which is very similar
to what I thought about. So maybe there is no need for a second version.
Not sure anymore...

[valentinbora]

I suppose whatever you intend to do, there's always going to be competition. If there isn't any, your idea might be too obscure and hard to market.

In general, if you can bridge a gap in the market, you are likely to have a successful product. Cryptos themselves have competition, yet they still march forward with their goal. I'd say don't get discouraged. See if there's one killer feature you can bring to the market and you have a winner, assuming you can execute properly.

[Vod]

Yeah, I think I should have said more about it. I wanted to automatize
the escrow process which is handled on a case-by-case basis in this
forum.

I often thought about developing this.  But I couldn't figure out a way to automate it completely.  

escrowmybits looks like a nice service, but it's not 100% automated.

[starsoccer9]

Yeah, I think I should have said more about it. I wanted to automatize
the escrow process which is handled on a case-by-case basis in this
forum.

I often thought about developing this.  But I couldn't figure out a way to automate it completely.  

escrowmybits looks like a nice service, but it's not 100% automated.

Assuming there are no issues, the processes is completely automated. The only time human intervention is needed is when a dispute occurs.

[Tomjames]

Hi guys,
again, I have some small business idea, related to BTC of course. What gives me the biggest headache is how
to build together some website. In design and complexity, it should be similar to one of the many mining oulets,
e.g. hashflare.io or genesis-mining.com, but I expect a much smaller load (at the beginning at least^^).

In particular, I need
- a customers area with login, 2-FA, a nice dashboard, ability to reset password and sometimes
automated notifications via email (so I guess I will have to run a mail server)
- a database in the back, where some (not much) customer's data is stored
- some automated BTC-adress generation (for deposit adresses) and transaction generation (for handling
withdrawal requests from customers) and querying balances, stuff like that...

Can someone advise me how difficult it is to get such a thing running? (I have some background in IT, but
mainly oldschool stuff. Like C++. Never tried webdesign..)
How costly would it be to have it done externally? (I don't like the idea so much, but if it would be too much
of a hassle...)

I want to add that I don't want to set up a cloudmining site nor an exchange, nor sth illegal. It's just a small
idea which would mainly cater to btctalk-members and would almost certainly not yield a lot of profit.
Another reason why I don't want to spend a lot of bucks for some professional webdesign company 

Thanks

Heyyy how's this project going on now ?