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A developer can really get screwed jumping into someone else's idea on faith. If you really believe in your idea then pay to outsource a prototype, then (since you are not a developer) show you have the business chops to bring it all together. Once you do, developers for your idea will be a dime a dozen.

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Oh cool, interesting, thanks. Say the idea entailed having a portal, which, in a first cut, would take uploaded xml files, parse them into business objects, process these into some other form, and output them into say, excel? So, input xml --> parse --> compute --> output excel to the user. Could I pay like some India company to whip up a prototype portal for this on the cheap? Like in the range of 1 or 2 K ? Thanks much.

ha, good luck with that. you will really need it.

I don't know the cost... but I do know that parsing xml and outputting excel is not all that sophisticated. However you'll need a more concrete application of the process to get some bytes built. Hit craigslist software developers up for some quotes to get a better idea of what you need to move forward (dont hire anyone yet!). And start reading: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/11/09/rexml-processing-xml-in-...

Good luck.

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