Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
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Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#12Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#13A related submission from today:
"I built a Reddit clone in 2 weeks using Bubble: nocode"
Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#14Created https://biztoc.com on GCP from scratch — As with most ready-made stuff, it would have been too much hassle to tweak thing in the long run. Spam detection in the likes of Reddit is probably the only thing I would resort to a third party solution.
very interesting site!
Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#15A related submission from today: "I built a Reddit clone in 2 weeks using Bubble: nocode" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31555438
Extremely impressive.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#16At the risk of being downvoted to oblivion: IMHO the best nocode approach is to build a pitch deck, secure funding and hire developers to build it.
The features you are asking for are complex. Both Twitter and Reddit have spent years iterating with large development teams to get these features. And I don't think nocode is ready yet for this complexity.
Even in "highcode" environments these things are not trivial to set up. Have a look at some open source twitter/reddit clone codebases (which typically not even touch payments) and see how complex they are. Now imagine each of these components needs some more complexity on top to make it configurable through "nocode" platforms.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#17At the risk of being downvoted to oblivion: IMHO the best nocode approach is to build a pitch deck, secure funding and hire developers to build it. The features you are asking for are complex. Both Twitter and Reddit have spent years iterating with large development teams to get these features. And I don't think nocode is ready yet for this complexity. Even in "highcode" environments these things are not trivial to s…
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Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#18I’m honestly surprised nobody’s taken the bait here; the answer is a resounding and emphatic no.
You need a team (multiple teams, really) of developers to build and maintain the set of functionality on either Twitter or Reddit.
One 10x dev could probably get something going to kickstart fundraising, but to reach true feature parity, you’re talking multiple teams of engineers executing months (if not years) of work.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#19I’m honestly surprised nobody’s taken the bait here; the answer is a resounding and emphatic no. You need a team (multiple teams, really) of developers to build and maintain the set of functionality on either Twitter or Reddit. One 10x dev could probably get something going to kickstart fundraising, but to reach true feature parity, you’re talking multiple teams of engineers executing months (if not years) of work.
This doesn't preclude using a low-code platform to do it, unless you assume low-code means producing software without developers.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#20At the risk of being downvoted to oblivion: IMHO the best nocode approach is to build a pitch deck, secure funding and hire developers to build it. The features you are asking for are complex. Both Twitter and Reddit have spent years iterating with large development teams to get these features. And I don't think nocode is ready yet for this complexity. Even in "highcode" environments these things are not trivial to s…
The hard part is NOT building such a site. The hard part is getting users.
It's almost impossible to get funding for something like this without first demonstrating that you can get users where "demonstrating" means "already has a lot of users and, more important, growth in users". (There are a few people who could get funding for this project before such a demonstration but those people wouldn't be asking this question on hacker news.)