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hello, i hv an idea of making a website using PHP and MYSQL which will maintain a list of all shops and services like plumbers, carpenters, interior decorators etc.(from now on referred to as workers) in an area. Just like ebay sells products, i intend to help the forementioned people (workers) "sell" their services. I am planning to do this using a website in which the user can put up a notice that he needs people mentioned above for some work. This notice can be forwarded to such people on their mobiles through sms and they can respond if interested. This way a person won't hv to go searching for such people, and these workers would get jobs to do. I also plan on letting the user's comment on their work, so people would know who the right person is... I also intend to show the shop locations using gmaps.. i am putting in more thought on new features as well.. This can be extended to practically every city in the world...

is this good enough for final year project.. i could use your valuable suggestions and views on this..... any recommendations for some other topic are most welcome..

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Sounds like a pretty decent project. It has been done in some fashion or another before. Perhaps check out guru.com. This is a site designed to help developers sell thier services and help employers find developers for thier solution. Its not exactly the same as what you are talking about, but I believe this site might give you some good ideas

John Hartsock
Or better yet, check out elance.com. It's just like guru.com, except it doesn't suck.
Mike Mooney
lol.Good point Mike.. I guess I gave a weak reference. Yes elance.com is a good site to pull ideas off of.
John Hartsock
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This is more than enough work for a final year project, and it is a nice technology show case! I presume that the point of this project is not to go live, so it doesn't matter much that it has been done before (similar or exact). I say go for it :D

Nikola Markezic