Pls dont award before discussing. I have gone through with the open source Project Socioboard and got your business objective that you want to their source code and want to customize the UI. Now, to give you a cost effective solution first we need to align with your thought. you have specified your thought but still as you are targeting Hootsuite so I am assuming that you want to manage the following which has already present in the socioboard as well.
Your application will serve as a Social Media Management solution, your user will be able to focus their efforts when managing a project, working with clients, or scaling their organization globally.
1. User will be able to schedule Tweets and Facebook posts, monitor conversations, and more.
2. They can share their workload amongst teams, departments, or regions. Assign tasks, receive real-time notifications, and have internal conversations.
3. User can add employees and clients to their team and can work together to amplify your messaging safely.
Now, if we will dig into the Hootsuite then we will find that there so many others option like Social Marketing, Social Selling, Social Customer Service. So, please let me know what you want to keep for your site and what you want to remove from the Socioboard source code.
I want to aware one thing that there is not all the functionality available in the Socioboard which is in the Hootsuite so please give me light regarding this.
I am ready to show you some design work in our nex