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Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
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Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#22Dreamweaver 3.0? Wasn't there some IDE like that in the past where non technical people could build data driven apps visually? I don't remember then name of that application. Wasn't it related to Microsoft Access or something? Hmm, the name eludes me...
There was quite a few. I remember building stuff in Microsoft Frontpage back in late 90s.
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#23Dreamweaver 3.0? Wasn't there some IDE like that in the past where non technical people could build data driven apps visually? I don't remember then name of that application. Wasn't it related to Microsoft Access or something? Hmm, the name eludes me...
That was Microsoft Frontpage I think. Dreamweaver was very similar to Frontpage in the 00's, I'm surprised it still exists.
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#24One of the problems with examples like this is that it gives an unrealistic expectation to non-technical people that large & complex sites are actually quite basic. There is a lot of functionality that a typical user never sees and is often where the complexity lies. And as the "app too busy" error message proves, there is a lot more to a site than it's front end alone and cloning a front end does not clone performan…
Ironically, it seems this clone does a great job of cloning the performance of reddit, at least when I tried it (bunch of unnecessary requests that takes multiple seconds each, sometimes just returning errors)
Just use old reddit. It's fast. On mobile
https://www.reddit.com/.compact (with a dot before compact) still works.
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#25No-code is just like serverless!
It's made of other people's code!
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#26One of the problems with examples like this is that it gives an unrealistic expectation to non-technical people that large & complex sites are actually quite basic. There is a lot of functionality that a typical user never sees and is often where the complexity lies. And as the "app too busy" error message proves, there is a lot more to a site than it's front end alone and cloning a front end does not clone performan…
> And as the "app too busy" error message proves, there is a lot more to a site than it's front end alone
I get at least monthly "our servers are busy" messages when accessing Reddit, and their (redesigned) website is so bloated that it takes great effort to replicate such bad performance in a simple clone.
Reddit is the one site where you really can't make this argument, it's bloat incarnate.
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#27One of the problems with examples like this is that it gives an unrealistic expectation to non-technical people that large & complex sites are actually quite basic. There is a lot of functionality that a typical user never sees and is often where the complexity lies. And as the "app too busy" error message proves, there is a lot more to a site than it's front end alone and cloning a front end does not clone performan…
Ironically, it seems this clone does a great job of cloning the performance of reddit, at least when I tried it (bunch of unnecessary requests that takes multiple seconds each, sometimes just returning errors)
Hard to meet a person that doesn't at least dislike reddit, but at least old.reddit.com is quite an efficient page.
I had an internet outage that left me with a few kilobytes/s upstream/downstream. Most of the modern web was plainly unusable, often requests got terminated before all data was transmitted.
But reddit among few other sites did work quite well. Of course not for pictures and media, but the text and comments were quickly displayed. In hindsight I am not sure if that was better than a complete outage, but that is a content problem.
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#28No-code is just like serverless! It's made of other people's code!
I hope it works when I disable javascript (it's no code after all).
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#29Dreamweaver 3.0? Wasn't there some IDE like that in the past where non technical people could build data driven apps visually? I don't remember then name of that application. Wasn't it related to Microsoft Access or something? Hmm, the name eludes me...
Coldfusion?
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#30I was gearing up to be irritated at seeing "no-code", but this was apparently built using a glorified WYSIWYG editor. That's really impressive, especially given how close it looks to what you set out to imitate. Nice work!
Isn't "glorified WYSIWYG editor" basically what nocode is? Why would the terminology decide your mood when the two are basically synonymous in this context? Bubble (which been used for building this) describes themselves as a nocode tool quite literally ("The best way to build web apps without code") but because you see it as a WYSIWYG your irritation disappeared?
> Isn't "glorified WYSIWYG editor" basically what nocode is?
Does bubble also handle deployment/infra?