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?
#22Sticker Mule built a social network from scratch
Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#23I’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.
In 2022, I'd imagine there is some startup that does this. I'm not asking for something that truly scales to millions of users and has ALL the features of production reddit / hackernews. I'm thinking an MVP production app that has basic things that we all think about that a social networking app would have. I'm surprised that it's still so hard to find a "SaaS in a box" with some sample production apps like Twitter-clone/Reddit-clone, etc that does all the wiring for us.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#24At 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 quest…
You could use nocode to build a prototype, use that as the platform to get initial users, then get funding and rewrite with code as the userbase grows if the nocode solution can't keep up.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#25Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#26Reddit is just a forum with a non chronological sort. The entirety of the voting code can be a one liner. Adding upvote buttons is also a one liner.
It’s pretty easy to do the Reddit MVP but all the stuff they added later on is a major project. That includes their gamification, avatars, spam code, moderation, wiki, chat, private forums, etc.
As for Twitter, the east part is making it. The hard part is making the backend scale. Even Twitter inc. itself took months to make it scale (remember the “fail whale”?).
Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#27Reddit is just a forum with a non chronological sort. The entirety of the voting code can be a one liner. Adding upvote buttons is also a one liner. It’s pretty easy to do the Reddit MVP but all the stuff they added later on is a major project. That includes their gamification, avatars, spam code, moderation, wiki, chat, private forums, etc. As for Twitter, the east part is making it. The hard part is making the back…
> make it scale
Yeah, there’s a bit of complexity there.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a truly solid low-code to build Twitter or Reddit clone?
#28I’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.
In 2022, I'd imagine there is some startup that does this. I'm not asking for something that truly scales to millions of users and has ALL the features of production reddit / hackernews. I'm thinking an MVP production app that has basic things that we all think about that a social networking app would have. I'm surprised that it's still so hard to find a "SaaS in a box" with some sample production apps like Twitter-c…
You've asked for enough features here that make a low-code solution straight up impossible.
Also, if you've ever spent time on any freelancing site, requests like yours come in basically every other project. "I just want a social media app like Reddit/Twitter, here's $50 bucks and two weeks, let me know when you're done."
Honestly, it's a meme at this point, non-technical people asking technical people to build them a Facebook clone and completely failing to understand the immense complexity that goes into building anything for users beyond yourself.
Like I said, I'm surprised nobody here had given you a response like mine yet, given how common this conversation is.
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#29maybe vbulletin
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Your answer seems to imply that you equate "production ready" with "infinite scalability" but they're vastly different.
"Production ready" is meaningless without specifying the scale of the supported productions. A phone number and a yard sign is a "production ready customer acquisition, scheduling, and support system" for some businesses. As is "knocking on doors until someone buys your thing".