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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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Access is shit. If I were doing this, I'd probably go with Mongo. Less problems if you have specimens that have different field requirements, etc.

A notes field directly in whatever DB solution you use wouldn't be ideal unless you included some way to futz with it in the app. A better way might be to tie into Jira or some other task tracker, though I'm not sure how feasible that would be... you'd want it to do task lookup based on QR and user, presumably.