Okay, and then once you have all of this stuff, then you can decide on if you want to build it yourself. Or if you want to leverage open source technology. A good example of open source technology, people always say, Well, what does that actually mean? These platforms here like WordPress, and I can show you a couple of examples of websites that I built in WordPress. So here's one called career in STEM it so I built it for an entrepreneur who wants to help kids learn about STEM resources and their careers. And it's very intricate and detailed with tons of resources.
And this is all built in WordPress. And it looks beautiful, it works great. You can click on any one of the careers and it'll take you to a career page where you can learn more about that. And the cool part about these these sites in WordPress, especially, is that it's all responsive to mobile. So if you're on a on a mobile phone, you can still use it. It still works as if it's on on a mobile device.
So that's a WordPress site. Here's another one called Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion. It's built for a local museum. I'm going to build it for and again is very responsive, lots of beautiful photos and lots of links to do lots of different things built in WordPress. Same with my public eight, my news publication called lean tech news, which by the way, if I were you, and you want to learn about Lean technologies and startups and technology and how to build startups and you know, 10 steps to being successful, why investors this net, what tools to use, you know, the hard truth about, I mean, I have so many articles on here that you could learn a lot from. So go to lean tech news and read some of these articles.
And you might learn a thing or two. This is also built in WordPress, very simple, you know, and, but instead of spending a lot of time building a new site, I was able to build this using WordPress. So definitely leverage open source technology. This might mean that you can use a platform framework called react js, or Ruby on Rails. Zen cart is for e commerce, you know, and There are a lot of plugins you can use and a lot of different types of things that you can implement into your website without having to actually build them. So you know, I'm not saying it's the best way to go.
But if you're just starting out and you're building an MVP, there's nothing wrong with building a Zen cart, e commerce platform for your college, buy and sell app just to test the market. And there are there are a lot of technologies out there that enable you to build something without actually building anything. For example, say you do want to build that college buying and selling platform using WordPress or Zen cart. There are technologies out there like something like maybe WP auctions calm I mentioned this in my book strap on your boots. So if you're reading that along with the course and you'll see that here, and this is a way for you to build a platform and for maybe I think it's like 40 bucks or something to buy this. And you can have an auction site where people can bid on, you know, and again, this could be just for you, Penn Wharton or whatever college you go to.
This can be called, you know, the Wharton buy sell platform, you know, and the pricing on this, I believe is I think it's for last time I checked, it was $40 yeah 40 bucks, I was right. So you can get this for $39 and and change the colors, you know, change the, the way it looks, change all the words and change everything on it. And this will be your site and then that way you can start testing your theory will people want to buy and sell things on your website? If so then you can take it to the next level, show the developer, your workflow document and show them your your visual maps and the idea you have and show that you have validated it by using this platform. And then you have customers and then the developers will most likely want to start helping you build the real site.
Okay, so leveraging open source technology is a very powerful thing.