I'm aware of at least two people working on an update to BrickStore on their own. Being a programmer myself, I would love to contribute to such a project, but I frankly don't know where to start. We already have BrickStore which we could update (despites its numerous flaws, obsolete QT3, no documentation, etc.). Instead, I believe we should pool efforts from various people into an open-source project, and sellers could support the programmers through donations. Someone taking the lead and writing the software on his own, to later sell licenses, would be an option. I don't think sellers would manage to pool that together, for an uncertain outcome. Hiring a programmer to do so, that would minimally be a 2-3 months full-time effort, meaning $16000-24000. Writing such a program from scratch is a lot of work. What kind of costs are we looking at to have someone rebuild it? Is there anyone here capable and willing to do it? What will you charge?Īny ideas about getting a pool going to provide financing for the project? It also needs to be able to import from Brick Owl as currently there is no working way to do so. The main need for me as far as BrickStore goes is the ability to decipher and keep stockroom items in the stockroom when uploading. I will start.įirst if I understand BrickLink's TOS properly, building the program to work with BrickLink and Brick Owl is okay providing we don't use their info, correct? If this is the case, Lawrence are you okay with us finding someone to build a program around Brick Owl that uses Brick Owl's info that will also upload to BrickLink and other venues? This should be a good spot to give ideas, ask questions, find someone to do it, etc. I figured I would start this thread to see if we can get the ball rolling on a replacement. I am no programmer but I as well as many other sellers need a dependable program similar to BrickStore that will work amongst both venues as well as others.
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