[eluser]Ollie Rattue[/eluser]
[quote author="regal2157" date="1306554690"]Sorry, I will apologize firstly for not reading all the prior posts. I read a few, and they pointed out good points.
First and foremost, I feel us as developers, most likely have already built a basic user system and such, which we usually switch over with out own projects, but I'm sure members have already expressed their opinions here about making their own system. I wanted to bring up the other end of the deal. The client who will receive this code. The client may want a custom application built from the ground up, or has certain standards that the web app must be built off of, or other things. For example, I am currently working with a very large company developing internal applications using CI. The user system for them is on a huge complexity level of access rights, clearances, and database connections. I consistently use LDAP, and Oracle for authentication purposes.
Sometimes I feel that if you're even buying a pre-made system, you're going to spend at least half the time it would have took you to code it to learn their system, and even longer to suit it to the clients needs. Clients have to understand, and as a developer, you should warn them, that well built applications are not built in an hour. I know trying to learn other peoples systems to help them debug it sometimes takes me longer than it does to code my own. Since not everyone codes the same, and one thing no two applications have alike are logic. Everyone has their own logic behind processing data.[/quote]
Hey, thanks for joining in the discussion.
There seems to be a bit of a misunderstood as to what this 'kit' provides and who it is for. It is perhaps my fault for not defining the intended market and use properly. This shows that the 'kit' would need to be branded and marketed very carefully to get the point of the product across.
The kit is designed solely for developers starting their own SAS (software as a service) company (think basecamp, createsend, freshbooks). It is for micro-entrepreneurs who are bootstrapping their first for sale monthly subscription web application.
This 'kit' is not designed or intended to help developers with client work, which I agree is bespoke for every project based on the client's unique business needs. For client work CI is a brilliant starting point. For monthly subscription web applications there is a lot of extra 'nuts and bolts' functionality required. This kit fills this gap.
