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Ask HN: Where to find co-developers for side projects?

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Re: Ask HN: Where to find co-developers for side projects?

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Post by nfriedly »

This might not be the answer you're looking for, but if you don't already have someone in mind, then you should probably build you side project on your own.

Also, basic html and css is all it takes to build a webpage. (Well, technically you don't even need the CSS...)

JavaScript is definately not required. Responsive CSS is a bit nicer to have to make the website mobile-friendly, but this is all you really need:

    
    
    * {max-width: 100%}
Build with what you know or want to learn, and if someone comes along, great, and if not you should be just fine.

Re: Ask HN: Where to find co-developers for side projects?

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Post by Liberator »

nfriedly wrote: post #12

This might not be the answer you're looking for, but if you don't already have someone in mind, then you should probably build you side project on your own. Also, basic html and css is all it takes to build a webpage. (Well, technically you don't even need the CSS...) JavaScript is definately not required. Responsive CSS is a bit nicer to have to make the website mobile-friendly, but this is all you really need: * {m…

Yeah, if I don't find anybody, I will try to do it by myself. The backend will be made in Spring and I thought about using some template engine, like Thymeleaf to do the front. But I'd prefer to work with REST APIs.

Re: Ask HN: Where to find co-developers for side projects?

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Post by Liberator »

sharemywin wrote: post #13

Maybe you can talk about what your looking to create. Or, maybe build it as an API and people find it useful and build front ends for it.

Well, I'm looking to build a modern and robust opensource anonymous imageboard software (most people here probably know about 4chan), as all the existing usable alternatives are written in PHP and the code is 10 years old and barely maintained. Yes, maybe I will try to do the front end by myself and also provide rest api on the side, if anyone was interested.

Re: Ask HN: Where to find co-developers for side projects?

#18

Post by Liberator »

0x4f3759df wrote: post #16

At your college. Put up a flyer or reach out to some computer minded organization. You're not actually going to get an angular / react dev (they cost $$$$), best you can hope for is someone with no skills who wants to be an 'angular / react' dev.

> You're not actually going to get an angular / react dev (they cost $$$$) I also make $$$$ programming, but that doesn't mean I'm not willing to do something for free.

Re: Ask HN: Where to find co-developers for side projects?

#20

Post by bauerd »

Liberator wrote: post #15
sharemywin wrote: post #13

Maybe you can talk about what your looking to create. Or, maybe build it as an API and people find it useful and build front ends for it.

Well, I'm looking to build a modern and robust opensource anonymous imageboard software (most people here probably know about 4chan), as all the existing usable alternatives are written in PHP and the code is 10 years old and barely maintained. Yes, maybe I will try to do the front end by myself and also provide rest api on the side, if anyone was interested.

Don't overengineer it then. You'll do fine with old-school server-side rendering and polling for new posts with plain JS.
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