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Hire someone to do it in wordpress or any decent PHP framework for you. If you expect to make money on it you should expect to pay for the labor of making it, after all. What you're proposing is a complex implementation. Just because you consider it a side project, doesn't mean it would take any less work to pull off.

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Do you know of any providers that would charge a monthly fee instead of setting it up from scratch? Maybe I've misjudged, but this (searching data added in by users) is something common that a web service out there would already offer.

There are services which would charge for hosting, and provide a general purpose UI for a database backend. You could check out Wordpress' hosted service or Adobe's Business Catalyst, maybe, but if you're looking for a turnkey solution which won't require any real effort to pull off, you're not going to find it. Unless you want what basically amounts to a blog and some static pages, someone's going to have to build it from some value of "scratch."

Thanks. I'm a little surprised by the answers in this thread. I guess I run into what I'm kinda looking for so much I thought that it wouldn't be a big deal to find a turnkey solution. Everyday I use mobile apps that show me where things nearby are and how far away and allow me to search product listings. I dunno, I guess I thought it would be a thing I could set up in 30 minutes like Shopify because it seems so ubiquitous. The fact that I couldn't find a solution after Googling should have been a hint, but I figured it was just hiding and HN would know. Thanks again.

Simplicity isn't easy. Chances are if your idea hasn't already been implemented elsewhere, and it's any good, then it can't be whipped up in half an hour. Good luck.

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