Over the last several months, I have tested and validated a business opportunity in the legal space. Customers are very interested - 4 or the last 5 have asked to be part of a paid Beta as soon as possible. I'd like to get something workable into customers hands as soon as possible, but am hamstrung by my technical skills.<p>I'm by background and skillset much more business than technically oriented. I know enough Python/Django to be dangerous and have built a working proof-of-concept / demo. However, I know when I'm at the limit of my capabilities, and to take it from POC to working product, would like to bring on someone to help buildout a real product.<p>Some of the problems that need to be solved for (many of which I've been dealing with in one capacity or another):
- web scraping. Done mostly with BeautifulSoup to date + lots of custom regexes. There are a lot of corner cases to deal with.
- regularly scraping 10,000s of pages and watching for changes on those pages
- entity and person disambiguation. Pulling info on a number of entities and people. Need to figure out when Acme Corp. is Acme Corporation is Acme and John Smith is John P Smith, etc.
- advanced searching and alerting based on those searches (search agents?)
- transactional emails (alerts) based on search agents<p>My ideal partner here would be someone with the technical (frontent/backend) capabilities to take what I've done, and build a grown-up product. I'm very comfortable on the business side of this equation, and leading the customer development components.<p>If you're interested, let me know and I can divulge a bit more.