Calling all Development Demigods

This page gives a little techy-weighted info on the Hubspace vision and current situation. If you're a developer with any of the skills/interests listed below, and you like the look of what we're up to, please follow the link to get in touch.

The Hubspace Vision

Hubspace is a hosted content management system with a world dominating vision (mwah hah hah hah) to provide customers with "so much more than a website, the hub of your online world". That means:

1. To be a multi-portal service with the ability to syndicate and aggregate data across the portals in a variety of ways. For example, for an organisation with multiple offices nationwide to be able to aggregate news items from the local offices in to a central feed.
    
2. To integrate deeply and seamlessly with multiple third-party "web 3.0" services - form-building / data collection, commenting, e-commerce, ticketing, resource booking, CRM, e-marketing, forums, subscription management.
    
3. For each portal to act as a hub for social network syndication and aggregation - blogging, micro-blogging, status updates, events and so on. 
    
4. Working as effectively on mobile devices as it does on standard browsers.

The Current Reality
 

1. Hubspace is a well-structured CMS application with a nice and extremely simple to use UI serving around 15 self-managed small business sites, with each site owner paying a subscription. We also have a multi-site job in development for an enterprise client with multiple offices nationwide.
    
2. All current Hubspace clients are very happy with us.
    
3. We have some integration with third-party services in place (the Echo commenting engine, the Amiando ticket shop), but minimal compared to the vision.
    
4. Via the Echo commenting engine we have a little social network aggregation (but nothing compared to what it could be). The planned first stage of social network syndication (advanced integration with HelloTxt) is close to completion.
    
5. There are two of us - a fairly junior developer who's been working on the project for a year or so, and a project lead / would-be CEO with a high-tech entrepreneurial background.
    
6. The multiple sites/portals already come off a single database and the system is already structured to syndicate and aggregate data between sites, but there’s not yet a UI for this.
    
7. All sites share a core HTML and CSS structure.
    
8. The UI for managing sites is fairly well-developed. The UI for building sites (so making the turnaround on their creation reliably profitable) still requires some work.
    
9. The HTML/CSS is structured in such a way that tailoring all sites to appear optimally in mobile environments should be fairly simple, but this hasn't yet been completed.

What We're Looking For

We're seeking to get to know web developers, particularly in and around the Bristol / Bath area, who have any of the following skills:

1. C# dot Net.
2. MS SQL Server.
3. HTML / CSS.
4. Javascript / JQuery.
5. UX design.
6. Web design.
7. And such like.

This is in relation either to collaboration, future freelance work (there are a few potential opportunities in the pipeline that will require us to scale up fast if they come off) and/or one potential full-time position.

We'd like to talk to you whatever your level of interest and experience (so not necessarily a "demigod" in fact!) - you might be a student seeking something interesting for a project, a freelancer, a full-time job-seeker, or someone in full-time employment seeking an interesting side-project to work on.

If you fit any of the above categories, please introduce yourself.

Also, we're looking for a senior dot Net developer who might be interested in joining the company as CTO (hands on at first). This would most likely involve investing a year of time in return for a shareholding and include mentoring the current junior developer.

Again, if the above might be you, we'd be delighted to hear from you.