I'm not necessarily looking for "crowd funding", but open to investors if they are interested; and currently getting an escrow on board. I do respect the Monero community a lot and wanted to get feed back from you guys because I trust your opinions a lot more than anything else.
Personally, I don't have enough funds right now to completely go in by myself to create the alpha and beta versions to get it up and running. So this is just more of an open invitation for investment opportunities, but in general it's more of a thread to share ideas about this topic.
Once I get the code written in an logical format, I plan on running a VPS so I won't be hosting the server... Does this mean that I can avoid US gambling laws since I live in the US? I don't mean to make this site sketchy, but I don't want to run into any serious legal issues as well... so I'm totally open for suggestions as what the Monero community would think about what steps I should take for this up coming project.
Edit: if anyone would like to help create this for me, I would really prefer someone from the Monero community to hire rather from someone on Bitcointalk... Willing to pay once I get the funds up and other investors who are interested.