Hi, have you ever bought various scripts from codecanyon to help get your web app built by a developer or to build it yourself this way? Things like login and user management and other parts, kinda like having things bolted together, i know theres a bit more to it than that but you probably know what i mean. Im quite attracted to using this approach, im not a developer but i would like to get it done this way, especially as i have an idea for a web app and when testing things very early on, like when getting feedback from users i think it would help me get something built sooner, especially as i intend to start off with having an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) to test with my target market.
After over 30 years of writing code, and over 10 years of writing websites, I use the code I've already written. If it's something I've never written I write it. I've never bought code from anyone, and I probably never will. A non-developer buying code is something like a non-doctor buying a stethoscope to diagnose an illness. The code you buy won't be exactly what you want and if you can't write code you can't read it well enough to modify it. (Reading someone else's mind - which is what reading someone else's code is - is more difficult than writing code.)
I can understand that you wouldn't purchase code if you have that much experience. Regarding myself buying code, if i do, i dont mean that i would try and do something with it myself, also i wouldn't expect a purchased script to be exactly what i want, but if it saves a little time, and if it was a feature or part of a feature of a web app that was 90% of what i was looking for included within the code then it would make sense to me to purchase it rather than having someone code something that already exists and is quite close to what im looking for.
You have to understand something. A function like "login" isn't something you can buy and drop into your site and have it work. You have to modify some code in what you buy, and some code on your site, to get them to work together. It's like buying a Chevy carb and making it work with a fuel-injected Ford engine. Bolting it on won't accomplish anything. You can buy a script for a working site. You can't buy pieces of different sites (which is what buying a login script would be) and have them work together without changing the code in all of them. (A login script involves a database - do you have a database of the right name, with tables of the right names that each have fields of the right names? Can you read the code well enough to determine what those names are so you can create the database? And change the code to tell it where your database is and its login and password?)
I understand that, i understand that changes would need to be made and extra code written and im not talking about buying a handful of scripts and building a site that way but if a few things were purchased. I shouldn't have said "kinda like having things bolted together" i think this is leading to you taking what i say too literally, while i cant code or design etc im not ignorant about what goes into creating a web app, i also understand that some developers hate trying to work with other peoples code. With your years of experience i imagine that you might not be the type to want to work that way. I do understand and expect that code would need to be changed within the scripts and further code written to create a web app. Obviously if the time and work that would go into it to try and peice a few things together with more code would take longer than a developer to do the whole lot from scratch then it wouldn't be ideal. To quote you "I use the code I've already written." while i understand thats different from what im asking about, if someone comes to you and asks you to develop for them then you yourself can save time by using code you already have but not mention that to the person paying you for it.
Im not looking for that. I will buy up a load of ready made scripts and send them your way, you can bolt them together for me yeah? i was told its just like building with lego, lol