Lead developer for a new startup

== Please only apply if == - you can work at least 30 hours a week - you can work during 9am-1pm PST timeframe (the rest of the time you could work on your own schedule) - you are independent contractor - you have experience being a lead developer on non-trivial projects == To apply == Respond with either a quote on how much the prototype described in the following lines would cost, or with questions that you need to ask before giving such estimate. All responses without either a quote or a specific question ("can we talk on Skype?" is NOT a specific question) will be IGNORED == Initial task == We need an API that will power the mobile app used to bookmark websites and group them into groups called 'clustirs'. You would start by creating a very simplified version of such API in your favorite PHP framework, that would support the following 4 methods over JSON: Create a Clustir This method will add/create a new clustir in the database when given the following: Inputs: • Clustir Name • Clustir Description • Owner Id • Subdomain • Icon • Privacy (Public/Private) • Topic Id (folder/location where clustir will reside) Outputs: • Clustir id • Subdomain (returns the same subdomain entered if this subdomain is unique) • Date Clustir was created Add object to a clustir When using this method, there are two scenarios: - you're adding an object to an existing clustir - the clustir doesn't exist yet, so you have to call the other method "Create a clustir" before adding an object This means “Clustir id” (wherethat object will be "connected to") is required for an object to be created. Inputs: • Clustir id • Object Title • Object Type (website, app, post, photo, audio, video, post, book, Q&A) • Object URL (for websites, and apps, posts, photos, audios and videos, books, Q&A found online) • Object File (for posts, photos, audios, videos, and Q&A uploaded from the phone/browser). • Object Description • Optimized for Mobile (boolean value whether website is mobile-optimized) Outputs: • Object id • Date Object was created Search/List existing clustirs This method will display a list of public clustirs and relevant information to each one. Inputs: • Search String • Token (only authorized/logged in users can perform search) • Scope (all clustirs, person's clustirs) • Sorting (alphabetical by name, chronological by most recent date, numerical by most number of objects) Outputs: • Clustir Name • Description • Clustir's Subdomain • Owner Retrieve Objects from Clustir This method lists all objects (and pertinent data for each) belonging to a clustir. Output is a multi-dimensional array/nested JSON: Inputs: • Clustir id • Auth Token (if clustir is public, auth tokens can be from any registered user, otherwise, if it's private, only the owner's auth token is accepted) Outputs: • Object id • Object Name • Object Description • Object Type • Object Icon • Number of Comments • Number of Likes • Popularity