Fundraising is one of the latest trends over internet and for various organizations this activity has proved to be money-making method to raise funds for various projects. Fundraising for organizations includes fundraisers who raise funds pcrowrofessionally, organizations working for religious purpose, political campaign, public broadcasting, taxation and many more.
There are many Crowdfunding scripts available in the market such as Kickstarter Clone, Indiegogo, SecondMarket are some of the best example of fundraising sites that helps you in acquiring huge amount of money through website.
There are various activities that can be included in fundraising activities, but to raise huge amount your fundraising activities for your projects needs to be strong and trustworthy. All along the activity or event you choose for fundraising should be in such a way that everybody can participate, so that people can take interest in taking part and should be charged minimum. I would like to discuss some of the recent fundraising activities
Fundraise by Games
Indoor Games Tournament: – You can include various indoor games such as chess, carom, table tennis, cross hurdles, play with clay and many more with nominal participant fees so that they take it seriously for winning a price. Indoor games are more feasible for all people and can be played within small area and events can be for business meets, get together, office events etc.
Outdoor Games Tournament: – An outdoor game is one of the good ideas to organize and raise fund but there will be less interested people and participants. You can raise maximum amount of money from outdoor games by organizing various tournaments like Lawn Tennis, Golf, Cricket, Football, Soccer, Volleyball, and many other outdoor games.
Fundraise by Social Activity
Facebook Fan Page: – Creating a facebook fan page is also one of the fundraising activities, where you can raise huge fund using “Causes” application of Facebook. You just need to undergo small registration process filling questionnaire and can start petition, pledge or fundraiser. Facebook fan page can also be beneficial for creating brand awareness for your product and services.
Using Twitter: – When you are using twitter to raise fund for the cause you need to have accounts in Paypal for money transfer and Chipln to create wizard that shows current contributions. To achieve success in fundraising using twitter you need to increase as many followers as you can you should be in continuous interaction with followers with various activities.
Fundraise by Community
Generally this idea is used by Non-profit organizations to raise funds for various organizations such as charity functions, sponsored events, art exhibition, donation making events, musical concert and nights and many more events can be organized and funds can be raised.
One of the best and proven activities to raise fund for community is Coin Canisters that can be placed at local business shop with the label stating the cause on container.
Art auctions is also one of the community fundraising ideas that ask various artist to donate their art work to people charging some amount from beneficiaries and donating that amount to organization who organize this of community.
There are various other fundraising ideas to raise funds for your products and services. Create your own Crowdfunding Site Clones if you want to be a provider as a fundraising website by getting customized clone from NCrypted Technologies.
You might be aware of AirBNB, If not then than have a glimpse on it. AirBNB is one of the famous rooms and vacation rental websites, office headquartered in San Francisco and branch offices in 10 major cities, from where you can book rooms for vacations in more than 25K cities and 190+ countries. It includes various Yurts, The Eucalyptus, Big Sur Natraj Yurt, Etnohouse and many more. I would like to share some of the features of AirBNB and here are they?
1. You can search place – When you are planning for vacations tours and searching for hotels or rental rooms then it has become easy to find same using AirBNB. AirBNB which is a vacation rental website script, has become huge community service for travelers where you can search flats on rent, rooms, private villas, cottages at low prices that makes planning of trip easy sitting at home.
2. You can even add your own space for rentals – AirBNB offer property owners to rent their extra property and can earn some money from it. If you have property like room, villas, cottages then you can contact AirBNB for rentals and undergo with the procedure for same.
3. AirBNB Picks – This feature is useful in quick searching for Yurts, Marvels, Islands, Abodes, Wagons, Teeny Tiny Houses and many more. Through this you can easily find whatever you need, you don’t have to go through unnecessary options.
4. Wishlists (Recently introduced) – As you the concept of wishlist, you can have a list of favorite places of various users and even you can create your own wishlist and can be shared on Facebook. You can even see your friend’s wishlist.
These are the 4 main features of AirBNB and recently AirBNB had changed the design of their website with dashing background and new look. I would like to list out the salient features of AirBNB,
1. Unique Spaces for everyone.
2. Bookings & Financial Transactions can be done easily.
3. AdSense & Banner Advertisement can be used in clones.
4. Multi-language support.
5. Closer view of each photo.
6. FAQs
7. 24*7 Support
These are the standard features AirBNB, you can even get your own functionality that you need in AirBNB clone. As per your need you can change navigation structure, layout structure, modules can be added and that too using Content Management System.
Website Clones are also managed easy and efficiently using CMS and has many more advantages also, here are some of them.
Custom clone has unlimited functionality
You can have your own copyright & ownership for your clone
Traffic & ROI can be increased using fresh clone
Your clone would be unique as compared to 3rd party clone
Cost-effective solution
Direct support to social networking websites
Customized Reports
AirBNB is one of the popular marketplaces for people, through whom people can discover accommodation across globe and they can plan holiday trip efficiently. You can even create your own Airbnb Clone using this powerful vacation rental script from NCrypted, in which you can add customized functionality, can expect global presence and high ROI.
NCrypted Technologies has more than 8+ years of experience in providing website clone services and have served 1,400+ clients for all major and popular websites and projects. For more details on website clones visit our official website.
Creating website clones is certainly a popular and upcoming trend in the IT industry. Website cloning does not necessarily mean a copy-paste script of the reference site or a “me too” site. It is built with numerous enhancements and additional features and functions to the reference site. People have stepped forward and opted to create website clones of popular and in-demand websites in order to develop their own similar platform according to their custom requirements. These newly developed website clones have also received significant response from the diverse user base and generated considerable traffic on regular basis.
The most popular among website clones are clones which are rapidly being regenerated or brand new website concepts which are being shaped on the web by several business entrepreneurs. Amazon, eBay, ClubPlanet, Kickstarter, Elance, Groupon, AirBNB etc. are popular websites whose clones are being regenerated by web entrepreneurs. To name a few of the most successful website clones Airizu, Wimdu, Lashou, Ushi.cn, Hudong and VKontakte are hugely successful website clones which have made a remarkable web presence and generated considerable user response on the web. Even though being a replica of the reference top rated site, these clones have been successful due to the reason being they provide customized features based on the local culture of the targeted audience and provide significant utility out of the services they offer in the newly developed website clones to a broad range of user base.
Let us take a brief look at some of the more popular website clones which have been successful in making their mark on the internet.
Facebook – A Social Network Clone Hybrid of HotOrNot and Classmates
Consumers didn’t want to see another facebook when facebook either inspired or ‘borrowed’ the social networking idea from HorOrNot.com (Hor or Not), Friendster, Classmates.com and others. Facebook didn’t pioneer social networking but rather ‘cloned’ features of other successful social networking sites live and popular back then and added its own unique features to create a brand. HotOrNot.com was a significant influence on people who went on to create social media websites Facebook and YouTube. Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook got his start by creating a Hot or Not clone FaceMash where he posted photos from Harvard’s Facebook for the university’s community to rate. The name Facebook is also ‘borrowed’ from a student’s community program with similar name in Harvard.
YouTube – A Clone of HotOrNot for Videos
Similarly, HotOrNot is also a huge inspiration behind the creation of social media giant YouTube which is now owned by Google, Inc. In the December 2006 issue of Time magazine, the founders of YouTube stated that they originally set out to make a HotOrNot Clone for videos before developing their more inclusive website. YouTube, apparently in late 2005, before being acquired by Google, started a campaign where they asked hot models of Hollywood and around Los Angeles to shoot and upload their videos for others to rate. HotOrNot was known for the same stuff, but for photos. YouTube since has grown to become one of the largest and most trafficked social media website. No wonder there are many YouTube clone websites that got emerged post 2006.
Airizu – A Chinese AirBNB Clone
Airizu is a popular Chinese website which provides the service to find accommodations to people seeking vacation rentals and other short-term accommodations like rooms to rent for a short period of time. If there’s one indication that a Western company is doing well, it is getting cloned in China. Airizu is a clone of the US website AirBNB which is being cloned in China for wanderlust travelers to browse housing listings ranging from couches, air mattresses, or private rooms similar to AirBNB. According to Airizu’s co-founder Adrian Li, “Since we launched the service in June, we have had over 100,000 room nights booked,” said Adrian, “Through our service, people can book over different 40,000 apartments in 70 cities in China.” Airizu provides efficient service which makes it effortless to showcase the landlord’s space to an audience of millions, and to find the right space at any price point, anywhere.
Wimdu – An AirBNB Clone for the European Market
Another popular AirBNB clone is Wimdu which is a European BNB and vacation rental website and a competitor of AirBNB. Wimdu was founded by Rocket Internet, a company owned by the famed German “Website Clone Developers” – Samwer brothers. Wimdu is the central platform for all types of private accommodation and unites travelers with hosts around the world. Wimdu has been launched in 11 languages and in addition to Europe is active in Asia as well as North and South America. Wimdu has only been around for about a year, but it’s already a huge business. Its success is proved by the recent news which says that it has managed to irk the latter raising a whopping $90 million round within a short span of time. After one year, Wimdu’s website boasts 50,000 properties listed, in over 100 countries, making it by far the largest social accommodation search website coming from Europe. According to Wimdu CEO Arne Bleckwenn, there’s a big chance the European start-up will eventually be even bigger than AirBNB. The site even expects revenue to exceed 100 million Euros ($132 million) for the whole of 2012.
Citydeal – A Groupon Clone by the Rocket Internet of Samwer Brothers
Groupon got cloned by the Samwers in 2010, and the results were expensive for the group discount website Groupon itself. In November 2008 Groupon went live in Chicago and soon became one of the fastest growing Internet businesses ever. In January 2010 the Samwers launched a knockoff Groupon clone called Citydeal. Within five months it was the top “daily deals” website in the U.K., France, Spain, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and Turkey. Groupon could have fought Citydeal in the marketplace. It also could have filed an intellectual property lawsuit, though the chances of winning would have been slim. Companies can’t be patented, and trademarks apply only within the countries where they’re registered. Perhaps taking the path of least resistance, Groupon in May 2010 bought its German clone for 14 percent of Groupon’s shares. Rocket Internet now owns 6 percent of Groupon, a stake worth about $1 billion!
Lashou – Another Groupon Clone
The success of Citydeal, a Groupon clone being acquired by Groupon itself, inspired many entrepreneurs to kick start with their own line of groupon clones. Lashou.com, a competitor to Groupon in China, just raised the large sum of $110 million from venture investors. Similar localized versions of Groupon can also be created for local regions based in different countries as Groupon Clone has high potential to get instant success and very quick user base due to the attractive group buying offers and targeted audience.
Ushi.cn – A Chinese LinkedIn Clone
Another example of a popular website clone is of Ushi.cn which is China’s most popular business social networking brand. Since a beta launch in February 2010, Ushi.cn, which is in both Chinese and English, has grown to more than 200,000 registered members. In spite of being a LinkedIn Clone, it has been able to make a mark as a business networking site gaining even more popularity than LinkedIn in China.
It is interesting to know the trick why Ushi.cn took off in China. Founder Dominic Penaloza, a Chinese Canadian serial entrepreneur selected 100 influential business and tech leaders as charter members and informal advisers, then relied on these contacts to invite their connections to join. That is clever, right? The site, based in Shanghai, has attracted a solid mix of investment bankers, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, marketers, lawyers, accountants and recruiters as joiners. Last October, Penaloza raised $1.5 million for the site, which sports clone-like features from LinkedIn plus some local adaptations and innovations such as a virtual currency and a mobile check-in feature for business conference – a handy tool for finding out who else is there.
Hudong – A Chinese Wikipedia Clone Script
Hudong, the Chinese Wikipedia, is another example of a replica that has leveraged the China opportunity. Started in 2005 by western-educated returnee Haidong Pan, the Beijing-based Wikipedia Clone site has accumulated more than 5 million entries from 3 million contributors and is in both Chinese and English. Unlike the nonprofit Wikipedia organization, Hudong is a private, money-making enterprise. Founder and CEO Pan expects Hudong to generate $20 million in revenues and $5 million in profits this year. On top of that, Hudong is on solid financial footing, having picked up funding of $30 million in 2008 by venture capitalists DCM, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Northern Light Venture Capital.
This Chinese site has features that go beyond Wikipedia. Social media is baked into the site. There’s a knowledge club for sharing info about science, groups for getting acquainted with like-minded friends and centers for exchanging copyrighted images.
vKontakte – A Russian Facebook Clone
Similarly, vKontakte is a successful Russian social networking website which offers features similar to ‘Facebook’. VKontakte offers a striking similarity in design and functionality to its American rival Facebook, and as such has been described as a “Facebook Clone”. As of January 2012, VKontakte has over 140 million accounts and is ranked 43 in Alexa’s global Top 500 sites and is the 4th most visited website in Russia and the 3rd in Ukraine.
Indiegogo – A Kickstarter Clone
Then there are Kickstarter Clone websites such as Indiegogo and SecondMarket.com to provide crowdfunding and fundraising platform similar to the one offered by Kickstarter. Not only that, many new eCommerce start-ups are coming up with their own customized Amazon Clone, eBay Clone, Alibaba Clone for single-vendor and multi-vendor eCommerce and online auction clones.
This way, by providing custom features in addition to those already present in the popular reference site, the successful website clones offer much more utility to its users and this enables it to get a large user base within a short period of time. These Chinese, European and Russian copycat brands seem likely to have a promising future. Their launches are really only the springboard as China’s mobile and Internet markets – the world’s largest – continue to grow. With the founders’ know-how and their knack for tailoring features to the local culture, each may be able to keep the big multinational powerhouses from penetrating the wall even in the future.
The internet is full of readymade scripts available for sell at unbelievable cheap rates. Whether you are looking for a site similar to Facebook (a Facebook clone you might want to call), Groupon clone or any other popular website clone, there are readymade 3rd party scripts available for sell online by a variety of vendors. The price that are on offer for a ready-made clone of the most popular websites is so good to be true, that you will almost get convinced by the price itself to buy it and start dreaming of becoming the next social media czar! But, that dream will remain just a dream, at least, for another few months, with that kind of a script in your hand.
Look at this – A facebook clone for $1500 USD! A groupon clone for US$1000! Unbelievable, no? If you could make a facebook for $1500, what is Mark Zuckerberg doing then? What makes Facebook plan for a US$50 billion IPO and what makes Groupon worth over $8.46 billion US dollars today if their backbone on which they are riding, their website, can be cloned for a mere thousand bucks! Anybody telling you this is lying and is a cheat! You can get a very simple and outdated social networking script at, may be, $500 or $1000, well, but not a full fledged social media platform similar to Facebook or any other leading social media site for that matter.
Great work does not come for a couple hundred dollars!
However, I am not saying that 3rd party ready made scripts are simply bad coded and you should not purchase it at all. These are perspectives. It all depends upon what game plan you have and what is your business model and plan. You have to be careful here in selecting your ready made script as a vast majority of cheap 3rd party scripts aren’t scalable, robust and user-friendly. Merging and integrating different 3rd party website clone scripts is not an easy job. It is very much important for all of these scripts and modules to share the same platform and structure.
However, let us first go through when to go ahead with a 3rd party ready made module and when to go ahead with professional custom development approach for popular website clones:
When and why to go for a 3rd party ready made clone script?
1. When your budget is less than or around $1,000 USD
2. When you want to use the script ‘as is’ and have very little or no customization requirement at all – as majority of these 3rd party scripts come either with encryption or are so badly written that it makes very difficult for a new developer to alter and upgrade that code
3. When you are not planning to run that website for a long term
4. When you are planning to sell that website within 6 months or max. a year
5. If you are planning to test around and see how the initial response is from the market that you are targeting for your website – Now this can be tricky as if you wish to move ahead with a full version, that ready made code will not be re-usable at all and you will have to build another one from scratch; vast majority of 3rd party resell scripts are not scalable and robust and not at all user-friendly, you can guess that from the Demo UI that comes with these scripts yourself
6. Resell scripts come with a single domain end-user license only, which means you can’t resell that and/or distribute yourself since you don’t own that code; you don’t or can’t own copyright for that code as well – this can prove to be lethal if you are planning for an angel, VC or PE investment on your venture that was built on a 3rd party resell script
7. You have additional budget to indulge into legal battle with the site that you just cloned since the ready made script you purchased had copied graphics, trademarks and IPs! (I am sure none of us want to get into something like this)
Majority of clients that we get for our website clone services are the ones who have already purchased resell scripts and then want to upgrade it or customize it with further additional features. This can prove more costlier at that time and it makes complete sense to have some kind of future planning first before buying such a script as to whether any one of the following is true for you or not and if even one situation is true, it makes complete sense not to go with a resell script and instead opt for a professional custom development approach.
When and why to go for a custom development approach for a popular website clone?
1. When you are not looking for something to-good-to-be-true, such as a groupon clone or an airbnb clone for $500! Meaning, you have a sound budget for your venture and you are very serious about your business but still want to play within a defined budget
2. When you want a website developed that is scalable, robust, user-friendly and want to gain competitive advantage over your competition
3. Your plan is long term and want to rely on a sustainable piece of work
4. Your short term plan is to build a bankable and world-class beta version so that you can raise capital for your venture through an angel funding round or from VC (Venture Capital) or PE (Private Equity) fund
5. You wish to retain 100% copyright ownership over your website and the source code
6. You don’t want your site to slow down when more than 4-5 visitors visit it simultaneously – ready made scripts do not come with proven load and stress testing
NCrypted is the only professional company that provides genuine custom development solutions for popular website clones such as Facebook clone, Groupon clone, AirBNB clone, Elance clone, eBay clone, ClubPlanet clone, Yipit clone, Kickstarter clone, Delicious clone, Digg clone, craigslist clone and many more.
Isn’t NCrypted custom website clone solution going to cost a lot more than a readymade script?
Absolutely not. First of all, nothing is wrong in going ahead with a 3rd party script if it is scalable, robust and user-friendly, comes with a clean and professional UI and can compete with the best in the industry. Sadly, there are no such scripts that sells for cheap and yet provides the best platform around for a given website clone. This is when you require our custom development solutions.
The cost of our custom website clone solutions largely depend upon what all features you’d like to go ahead and with what kind of functionality as well. e.g. a standard login panel will take less time to build and hence will cost lesser compared to a login panel built with jQuery which prompts immediately ‘This user is not registered with us. Would you like to sign up with this username/email ID?’ if the user enters a username or email ID that is not in the database. This is where it costs more than a standard version, so it is up to you as to how you decide to go ahead.
Our costs, as you will see, is 5 to 10x lower than what it would cost to make a brand new fresh development for the same clone elsewhere. Our expertise in website clone and web development services so far helps us build websites at a faster rate than normal and hence provide you the same world-class quality work at very affordable rates.
Contact us today with your RFP (you can find the RFP form on top-right of this page itself or you can simply send an email to sales[at]ncrypted.com) to find out our approach and how much it would cost before you plan to go ahead with a 3rd party script! It won’t hurt just to find out first.
Disclaimer: The use of word ‘clone’ may be misdirecting. This is not an automated process of copy-paste of features and functionality of another website; NCrypted neither endorses nor encourages any such practice. Website ‘clone’ is how the industry refers to the service of building a website similar to another site. NCrypted offers custom development solution and will certify that all the source code, graphics etc. to be used for similar ventures will be completely designed and genuinely developed by us. No code, design, graphics or any other IP has been or will be used from any of the popular website mentioned in this article or elsewhere on our website. NCrypted’s custom development solutions enables you to run website which is similar to any other website that is to be cloned. NCrypted neither endorses nor is directly or indirectly associated by any mean to any website mentioned in this article or elsewhere on our website except for where explicitly mentioned so.
The present world is seeing terrific technological development on one hand and also facing the fear of global economic depression on the other. This contradictory situation has left people with very limited buying capacity on their hands. Today most people behave so economically that they will not spend a penny where only half is required. This situation raises fears about the potential customers in the product market. However, there is an online solution which helps to ease out this situation by providing a seller market and creating the customer base necessary to sell the products and services. It is in form of the ‘Groupon’ website which was launched in November 2008.
Groupon website is a daily deal based group buying website and has gained enormous popularity and tremendous response within a short period of time. The website offers huge discounts up to 50% to 90% on different products and services by presenting a new deal to the customers everyday. From haircuts to gadgets, there is nothing you can’t find on Groupon. Groupon puts up discount offers consistently for fun, local activities and delicious restaurants that you may not have known existed prior to exploring them, allowing you new experiences on your budget. Moreover, the site is extremely easy to work as you can choose to specifically see the deals relevant to you and your area.
This type of group deal is advantageous for the merchants and the customers both. The customers get huge discounts on different deals related to everyday products and services and the merchants easily get the required amount of customers for the product or service they have on offer and also get newer customers everyday. The reason being that customers not only benefit themselves by purchasing through group buying sites but also refer such deals to their relatives and friends who are in need for such products and help them get those products at effective pricing. Thus, it is helpful for the customers to save a lot of money in their budget and for the merchants to generate the required amount of revenue by getting the required amount of customers for their product or service.
On the other hand, this will also help the merchants to attract more and more customers to their products and services without spending much on advertisements. All that they need to give is a simple discount for the fixed number of customers who sign-up for the deal within the stipulated amount of time. The amount that they need to invest is much less than the money that they need if they are planning to put-up their advertisements online. Hence, the local merchants usually don’t mind giving large discounts for such group deals.
Also, Groupon.com and other daily deal sites have millions of customer email ids in their database. Emails which contain daily deal announcements are sent to all the registered subscribers on a daily basis via free newsletter. Thus, they can easily reach out millions of people in minutes and provide them the information about the new daily deal on the website. Apart from increasing the website viewers, this in turn makes the sellers’ job easier. Sellers do not need to worry about their sales anymore. They can start giving more focus on product quality and other aspects of their business. In the end, this arrangement proves to be a win-win situation for the merchants and customers as both are getting benefitted equally.
Following the Groupon example, the Groupon clone has been developed which is a replica script of the Groupon website. It provides with all the features and functionalities which are present in the Groupon site. Many web development companies are providing Groupon clone script in the IT industry. The Groupon clone websites which have been developed by different entrepreneurs for different locations have also achieved significant success by following the model example of Groupon website.
Today, customers from all over the world see group buying sites as the best way to save money. Thus, at this time, a group buying clone such as Groupon clone has very high prospects to turn into a successful group deal website. The Groupon clone has all the potential to provide enormous utility to its entrepreneur and at the same time also prove to be a boon for customers and local merchants in the trade market.
If you are a business owner planning to build your own website, it is advisable to go for website cloning. Website cloning is a quick and simple way of having a successful website design and online presence.
Generally, to develop a website, one needs to decide the purpose of building a website. He/she must be sure as to what he wants to achieve with his website. Is the website meant to increase the sales of his goods or promote his financial, legal, or other professional services? Then, the person must decide who his target audience is. Is he targeting at male customers or females or children? The website design would be different in all the cases. He must then find out who his competitors are, what are they offering, and how have they designed their website?
All these factors play a crucial role in deciding the cCommerce website design. One needs to go for the website design that best meets his business needs and requirements. At the same time, it is important to ensure that your website design is attractive and inviting. It should withdraw web users to itself and make them browse through your site. Only a successful website design has the potential to convert the web users in to your customers.
But things are not easy as they sound though. Website design and development takes a lot of time and requires skill and knowledge for creating a functional and aesthetically appealing website design.
Website cloning is therefore a better option. It is a process of copying or replicating a successful website design, yet making it different from the original website. For instance, if you deal in office furniture items and want to build a website, you may search over the Internet for various such websites to find out how others have designed their site, learn how they have divided their web page in to content and images, what advanced website design features they have incorporated in their website, and so on.
As well as saving you from the hassle of conceptualizing your website design, web cloning also lets you have an edge over your competitors. You may find out what your competitors are offering in terms of product features and price and accordingly develop your website.
Moreover, you can even create a website clone of any of the popular and in demand websites and customize it to develop a better clone of your own. Success trend of some of the most popular website clones have inspired a generation of entrepreneurs to kick start with their own series of clone websites. A website clone can be developed according to your custom requirements with additional unique features to improve site utility. Such website clones have the potential to generate a high customer base and gain popularity in a very short period which can in turn yield high profits proving to be a revenue generating platform.
Thus, there is lot more to website cloning. To know more about website cloning or to avail professional help for website cloning, you may refer the NCrypted website.
Drupal is an excellent choice for a content management system (CMS). However, many people only see it as a simple CMS, a site to build a landing page or two. But Drupal is much more than that. Not only is Drupal easy to theme, it’s got a wide range of built in functionality and a large community powering the popular CMS.
One of the great things about Drupal is that you can build almost any sort of site that you can imagine, with the help of a couple modules. Want to go beyond the basics of a simple CMS? Drupal has an excellent API that allows you to extent nearly any aspect of the software. In fact, many people have started to talk about using Drupal as a framework, as it’s robust, well written, handles lots of traffic, and has a large and helpful community.
You can choose to hire Drupal developer which is the best option out there in the market these days if you wish to grow your business without really expanding and spending on infrastructure and hiring on roll employees. So, if you’re thinking about building your next big site, here are a few ways that you can take existing modules and turn a project quickly, without needing to make any custom modules.
1. Digg Clone
There’s plenty of Digg clone software out there, but it’s pretty simple to make a site that allows users to submit links to content, vote, comment and moderate the submitted links. It’s even easier when that functionality is all wrapped up into a single module. Digg creates an identical voting site that allows users to add web links, vote on them, share stories, and many more features.
2. Blog
This is one of the most obvious and common uses for Drupal, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important. Drupal comes primed for blogging straight out of the box, and there are many modules available that can enhance the commenting and overall blogging functionality.
3. News Portal
For those of you wanting a site that can showcase lots of information like Yahoo! or some of the other news portals, Drupal has you covered. Thanks to an excellent module called Views and some custom categories, you can quickly create many different types of content and display them in different ways on the homepage, to get you your own Yahoo Clone. Views is an indispensable module for a Drupal site.
4. Robust user site
Here is where I think Drupal shines brighter than most (if not all) content management systems. Drupal has an excellent user management system, user profiles and even OpenID right out of the box. It also has modules that can connect to Twitter, Facebook, and it’s easy to connect to other authentication gateways with the use of custom modules.
Drupal also has a stellar module called Organic Groups that allows users to “organize” themselves into groups. Each group can have it’s own homepage, blocks, themes, taxonomy and more.
5. Awareness site
If you want to build a site specifically for a cause or organization, Drupal makes that easy as well. Aside from the Organic Groups Plugin and other community-friendly features, there’s a donation module that accepts payments from PayPal, and shows the donating users on a donation page.
CiviCRM (demo) is a constituent relationship management solution module that was specifically created for advocacy and non-profit groups. Over 5,000 organizations use CiviCRM, and it’s well-supported and has many sub-modules for more specific advocacy needs.
Another great Drupal module for developing an awareness site is the Connect module. Connect allows you to easily create petitions, emails or fax campaigns.
6. Twitter Clone
Yeah, yeah… the world doesn’t need another Twitter clone, right? Well, I tend to disagree. The concept of sites and communities built around short, cross-platform messaging systems are a phenomena that just aren’t going away any time soon. With Drupal, it could be just as easy. Drupal’s Microblog module copies most of the features of Twitter. Micro-messaging, following users and public timelines.
7. File Storage Site
File storage sites like Drop.io or Box.net could be created with Drupal and the help of a module like Media Mover. Media Mover allows you to take uploaded files and copy them over to Amazon S3, the highly-scalable data storage system.
8. Flickr Clone
Photo sites like Flickr and Photobucket could also be created with the Image module and Views. The Image module gives users the ability to upload images, and then creates thumbnails and galleries from the uploads. Users could also comment on the photos using the built-in commenting functionality in the Flickr Clone.
9. Delicious Clone
It turns out that making a bookmarking site like Delicious is fairly trivial in Drupal. There are several options for modules that give users the ability to post bookmarks to their Delicious Clone account.
10. YouTube Clone
If you want to build a video sharing site like YouTube, Drupal has some modules that can greatly help with that. Flash Video adds functionality to convert uploaded files to flash, and then moves them over to Amazon S3 if desired. Flash Video also provides the ability to embed the videos in YouTube Clone, just like the big boys.
11. Amazon Clone
Trying to recreate the powerhouse’s ecommerce dominance is a tall order, but if any CMS is capable of it, it is Drupal. Drupal has a few stellar ecommerce modules like Ecommerce and Ubercart. Both of these modules have an extensive feature list that makes it easier to create an ecommerce powerhouse such as Amazon Clone.
12. Tumblr Clone
Creating a social aggregation site with Drupal is easy enough with the excellent Activity Stream module. Activity Steam allows you to pull in user’s activity on social sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Qik, StumbleUpon and many others.
13. Blogger Clone
If you want to start a blog host like Blogger or Wordpress.com, Drupal is easily equipped to do that. Drupal has a blog module that comes shipped with the package, and it allows every site member the ability to have a blog.
14. Blog network
Blog networks like Performancing and WiseBread rely on Drupal to power their networks. This requires the use of the built-in blog module. Member’s blog posts all end up on the homepage of the site by default, and you could modify how the member’s blogs looked with the help of the Views module.
15. News Aggregator
LifeRemix network site has been built with Drupal and a single module to aggregate all of the blogger’s posts. The site updates itself without any personal monitoring. Similarly, other news aggregator site like EzineArticles Clone can also be developed using Drupal.
16. FriendFeed
By utilizing the excellent Activity Stream module, it would be quite easy to build a FriendFeed clone. As Drupal already comes shipped with an awesome set of user and profile modules, a quick FriendFeed clone could be made in a matter of hours, depending on the design skills.
However, these are only a few examples of Drupal development. In fact, you can build many more website clones and applications using this popular CMS. Sites providing great utility and effectiveness are certain to generate a huge customer base soon turning it into a high-profit venture.
The trend of adopting website clones script as a ready made source for preparing better online platform has met with mixed response in spite of the great advantage of an immediate outcome which it provides to the client. The confidence of people would definitely strengthen by studying the case of one of the successful social network clones like VKontakte which has achieved extreme growth and popularity over the past few years.
VKontakte is a Russian social network service popular in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus. VK offers a striking similarity in design and functionality to its American rival Facebook, and as such has been described as a “Facebook clone.” Like Facebook, VK allows users to message contacts publicly or privately, create groups and events, share and tag images and video, and play browser-based games. One distinction of VK is its integration with torrent file sharing technology which allows users to share larger files.
As of January 2012, VK has over 140 million accounts, but has acknowledged that it has a major spam problem, and no longer advertises user numbers on its homepage. VKontakte is ranked 43 in Alexa’s global Top 500 sites and is the 4th most visited website in Russia and the 3rd in Ukraine. In May 2011 vkontakte.ru and vk.com were visited by 23.6 million and 4.9 million people from Russia aged 12–54.
The site’s functionality includes personalized pages, easy access to friends’ pages and news, photo and video hosting, a simple messaging system, groups that users can participate in, and notes. Because almost all of the information provided by users is subject to easy search, people are able to look for those from the same school or with similar interests, place of birth, etc.
New features are added to the website from time to time, such as the ability to host audio files within groups and personal pages; an “Opinions” function, which allows users to express, anonymously, personal thoughts about a friend on the network; “Offers” to ask people whether one wants to do something together with the user; “Questions” to answer the question that is asked by user; and “Applications”, which contain Flash API based games, tools, chat rooms, etc. Vkontakte offers special features which attracts more new members daily and makes them spend a lot of time online. This is the most significant advantage of Vkontakte over Facebook. The site now has 67 languages available which is another reason for its momentous success.
Similar other social networking site clones can be built by the web developers according to the customized requirements of the client which posses the potential to generate heavy revenues. All the clones consist of all the features that are eventually present in the existing sites. Thus, this approach has emerged as a convenient, easy and profitable way for undertaking successful online endeavors like VKontakte in the recent time.
