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Firstly, I'm not from the startup world, have never been in one, and dont know all the standard models, so forgive me if this sounds naive.

But I'm working on a startup idea. I'm looking to bring on some contributors to help with content and business development and I can't pay unless I get funded which I'm hoping to avoid for now. Offering equity feels like overkill for the type of work. I'm basically looking to get some freelance contributors to work on a risk basis, but with an overly generous upside if the business works.

I'm envisioning something like a revenue share type agreement.

Needless to say the contributors would have to strongly believe in the idea in order to take this risk. But if we could put that aside for a moment, I'm asking if there are existing models in the ballpark of what I am describing so that I don't have to try and reinvent the wheel.

I subscribe to the sentiment that a good way to learn development is by taking on a project. I have a few projects in mind for online directories similar to nomadlist.com.

So far I've been building them in Wordpress and hiring freelancers to do the bits that the plugin does not allow natively. But I cant seem to get the right kind of filters and cutomisation that I would like and have contemplated what it would take to learn to build it myself.

If my desired outcome was a directory site such as nomadlist.com with lots of filters, good performance, and a CMS, and assuming I was willing to take on a few months worth of learning, what would be a good learning path?

One option I suppose is to learn PHP and Wordpress so that I can take on the customisation of my wordpress site.

But I would prefer to give myself options outside of Worpdress and to learn to build a site from scratch.. Would love to hear some thoughts from the dev community.

The wordpress option is probably more realistic given my timeline, but I do know CSS and HTML already so maybe it is possible to learn something more advance? You tell me

Note: I could have asked what languages were used to build nomadlist, but I purposefully phrased the question differently because I presume that the languages he chose might night be the best/recommended languages for a newbee trying to reach the same outcome.

Since I've always been forces to use outlook for my work I've never really had to dig deep into an alternative.

I have a PC and an Android Phone.

I've just become self employed and am looking to set up a workflow outside of Outlook that involves a calendar with tasks that syncs across devices.

I'm shocked to see that google tasks does not work on mobile (except for in the browser). Google have introduced Reminders into their calendar but this is only working on mobile for me, not on desktop.

I dont see any To Do apps with a smooth integration into google calendar (presumably because google calendar does not have a coherent task/reminder feature which would facilitate an integration).

So how can I have tasks/reminders and a calendar all in one that works on mobile and desktop?

It never even occurred to me that something so fundamental could be a problem. Has anyone solved this? This seems like a massive problem to me.