# Wanted: Ruby/Rails Genius. Offered: The Opportunity to Devel

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**Created:** [January 24, 2006, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/wanted-ruby-rails-genius-offered-the-opportunity-to-devel/96626 "2006-01-24T16:54:45Z")\
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Hello All,

Are you interested in using your Ruby/Rails knowledge to create a  
_killer_ application and just maybe make some money out of it, too?

Noumenaut Studios is looking for a uniquely talented Ruby developer to  
help us to develop a content management system for Skribe, our  
forthcoming high-end blogging application (being developed using Rails  
and Flash).

There are three of us, including the award-winning Irish web designer,  
Matt Hutchinson, and we’re looking to add a fourth. If you’re  
interested, you can read about our goals in our project charter below.

We’re looking for natural talent. Matt could turn a collection of tin  
cans into high art. (Don’t believe me? Write me and I’ll prove it to  
you. 😉 ) We’re looking for the same on the Ruby/Rails front. If you  
have that natural talent and want to build an application that people  
will _use_, if you care about more than writing code, but making our  
world a better one, and if you believe that software means not just  
choreographing the switching of logic gates but the unleashing of the  
creative inspiration (and desperation) of the human soul,  
maybe–maybe–you’re the one.

Write or call and let’s talk.

Thanks!

Steve Jovanovic  
Director of Engineering  
Noumenaut Studios  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid  
(608) 225-2073

OBJECTIVE  
The purpose of this project is to create the first release of what is  
intended to become a revolutionary, market-defining blogging  
application. The aim of the first release consists of both business and  
technical objectives.

Business

1. Launch Skribe 1.0 no later than 1 Jul 2006.
2. Pilot Release 1 to a community of up to 100 users for six months  
after launch, providing 95% uptime;
3. Provide free accounts;
4. Minimize dependence on commercial software to reduce expenditures;
5. Grow a loyal user community from which to solicit ideas for  
subsequent releases.
6. Evaluate the market potential at the end of the pilot period to  
assess the economic viability of launching a business to generate  
profit  
and sustain future development work.

Technical

1. Create a front end with the best usability and aesthetics of any  
blogging application on the market;
2. Create a supporting back end content management system (CMS) to  
store  
and deliver content, including audio (podcasting), video, text, and  
possibly other  
formats.

ANALYSIS

The blogging market is enjoying exponential growth. As the population  
grows, the market is expected to expand even further.

Existing blogging applications are primitive, relying on HTML and the  
mainstream form-based request-response model for submitting and  
delivering content. The usability of these products is generally poor.  
Some work well, but at the expense of a rich feature set and pleasing  
aesthetics. Others deliver a plethora of unnecessary features, creating  
confusion and user failure by making setup, administration, and usage  
difficult. Some try to be all things to all people, combining elements  
of online dating, music, and social networking sites so that the  
purpose  
is lost, which can lead to rapid user attrition. All existing  
applications suffer from a weakness in allowing users to find the  
information that they’re looking for, be it a person or particular  
blog.  
Many applications are highly insecure, which threatens the integrity of  
user data and user privacy.

There appears to be a market for a high-end blogging application that  
transcends the traditional form-based model, provides unparalleled  
usability, unprecedented aesthetics, and offers extensive searching  
capabilities, security, and anonymity, if desired. No high-end  
applications exist that don’t belabor users with unnecessary  
complexity,  
thus lowering the probability that the users will succeed in creating a  
blog that they will use.

INTENT  
Our intent is to fill that gap and create a profitable business thereby.