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I work in the sciences, and have an idea for a program/tech solution to a common problem animal researchers run into, and my old lab griped about daily. I have the problem defined, and I have several ideas about a solution; my skill set doesn't include programming and my University doesn't care about developing "programs" only biotechnology ideas.

I'd like to pursue this, but getting bogged down trying to get started.

As I see it, I can fund this out of pocket and hire programmers to build this piecemeal, or find a partner who's willing to take a risk and work on this.

It's a long shot, but any helpful advice?

Sorry if wrong sub.

I work in the sciences, and have an idea for a program/tech solution to a common problem animal researchers run into, and my old lab griped about daily. I have the problem defined, and I have several ideas about a solution; my skill set doesn't include programming and my University doesn't care about developing "programs" only biotechnology ideas. I'd like to pursue this, but getting bogged down trying to get started. As I see it, I can fund this out of pocket and hire programmers to build this piecemeal, or find a partner who's willing to take a risk and work on this. It's a long shot, but any helpful advice? Sorry if wrong sub.

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I'm a webdev student. You might be able to do this easy by running a raspberry pi serving a webpage that interacts with a MariaDB (SQL) database. I have a pi hooked to a wifi router that acts as a private server, you could do the same and just visit the website to insert/query the database and print reports.
I'd be glad to help develop it, if you don't mind that my schoolwork takes first priority (in final semester). After the page is tested, the total hardware cost would be under $100. 1 Rasp pi, an ethernet cord, a wifi router.
<edit> Student to student, I think it would be a fun project and a great addition to my portfolio we're making for graduation. I can do SQL (databases) or MongoDB (different kind of database) and HTML/CSS/JS/PHP for the webpage, and I'm okay at Linux/Debian SysAdmin. I serve webpages with Apache2 and PHP, but I know the MEAN stack too if your app needs more (I doubt it) and can set up Fail2ban and UFW firewall.