Professional Social Networking Platform - website

Willing to pay higher for the right team. We need someone who is very experienced in developing a feature rich, nice looking, fast and uncomplicated social networking platform having some commonalities to Wowcher(app), linkedin, and whatsapp.  Although there are some similarities to the dating sites, this platform is going to be purely professional: with some inspiration from linkedin. Description of project (more details will shared after NDA): This platform will have: - Listing of products and services  - similar in display to Wowcher - Users can like, comment and share content - Login, logout and account creation (also login capability through social media sites such as Facebook) - Continue without signup (but can't add or edit content) - Account Settings: Edit profile, Avatar, Achievement badges, Refer to friends, Feedback, Report a bug - Activity log: latest or past activity of a user on the platform - Live data ticker: similar to what Facebook has on top right corner - Custom (crowd) media rich page creation ability (a person can create his/her page with photos, videos etc.) - A simple chat option for users to interact - privately, as a forum, in a group - Design similar to and borrowing elements of: [login to view URL] ; [login to view URL] ; [login to view URL] Requirements: - Developers with experience of creating complex, feature rich, but fast responding social networking platform, crowd-sourcing products  - A team that can not only program but can also do the UI design - Takes pride in their work and makes polished looking products - Speaks English well - A team that, with their experience, advise on the technology and contribute ideas to make the platform better and easier to use - A less loaded team that can meet the strict deadlines - Resourceful team that has access to online and offline library of features and designs: I am willing to pay for readily available plugins to expedite the development efforts We are also looking for a graphics designer: and if a team has one, that would be an added bonus Here's what you need to do next: - Please reply with examples of your previous work including any user interface or design examples you have done before. If I like your previous work, I will reply and give you more details. MESSAGES WITHOUT PREVIOUS WORKS WILL BE DELETED. - When you reply start with typing the code words Optical Mouse - Briefly explain how you will approach the project, technologies you will use, and why - Have you developed Social networking platform, crowd-sourced platform, or dating sites before? - Let me know if you have any doubts We are looking for a web-based platform (website) for this phase, but an iOS, Android and windows app will be next phase of the project.  We invite you to be a part of an awesome project.