build a simple text-based ad exchange

Needed a person or team to build PlainTextAds.

this tool needs to have a serverless backend.

in order to be considered, please answer the following questions:

1. what serverless technologies have you used and why?
2. what front end frameworks/tech would you use for this project and why?
3. what ci/cd services would you use and why?
4. what backend language would you use / why?
5. what is your philosophy on commenting code?
6. how long would it take you to complete this project?
7. how much $$ would you charge?

if you dont provide answers to each question, your response will be ignored. thank you for understanding.

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Plaintextads is a service that matches a Marketers text-only ads with a Publishers text-only ad space.

MARKETERS

Marketers post an AdPackage:

AdPackage:
- ad text - must include a url
- keywords or phrases
- BPC (bid per click)

links will be converted to tracked redirect urls with a service like bitly, or custom implementation.

If the ads link is visited, the Marketer pays a ClickPayment of 1 cent more than the next-lowest bid among the ads that matched the given Publishers keywords.


PUBLISHERS

A Publisher will submit a request for an ad. This request will contain at most 10 keywords. The Publisher will pay network fees to buy this potentially income-generating ad (like $0.00004, the roundtrip cost for an AWS lambda request).

the Publisher is responsible for properly formatting the Ad to match the given medium (webpage, command line terminal, markdown document, etc). Some media support hyperlinks (iterm2) and some do not (apples Terminal). The Publisher decides (i) whether or not to display the url as a hyperlink, and (ii) how to display the url for non-hyperlinks (after a specific word? after the entire ad?).


example ads displayed without hyperlinks
the Publisher receives 80% of the ClickPayment. The rest goes to payment fees and plaintextads revenue.


PAYMENTS

- stripe


COMPONENTS:

- mobile friendly website
- signup
- change email/pw
- add payment info
- marketer
- ad submission
- supports emojis, bold, and italics
- simple analytics / payments history
- publisher
- api information, api keys
- simple analytics / payments history (ad revenue and network fees)
- admin (me)
- list of all marketers and publishers
- ability to cancel/terminate their access
- ability to log in as any user
- set custom commission per customer (could be totally free -- no stripe fees or anything)
- summary and history (graphs) of payments and website revenue, costs (like stripe and bitly fees)
- API
- aws lambda endpoints for returning ads to publisher - will accept keywords
- user can specify what version/syntax they want the add in: html, plain text CLI, rich text CLI, markdown, or no formatting (url after keyword or after entire string)
- keep track of number of requests per publisher - because publisher gets charged per request (AWS lambda fees)
About the recuiter
Member since Nov 11, 2022
Partha Sarathi
from Ontario, Canada

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