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We focus on users with un-used domain names and try to spin up a news site like Reddit quickly with various features built in.
Nice! Pretty easy to compose a new post. Video, photos, text links just like Reddit. It was a bit slow but getting things loaded but choosing to log in as a test user I was able to load things to desktop and post a great video. Kinda took me back a few years. Very nostalgic. I like it. Reddit is like your sink drain sometimes, clogged with all the hairy goo that no one wants to see or deal with. This feels like a new…
Thank you! I appreciate the positive feedback :)
I tried to view the video link but received an error. I posted the error contents in another post for you. I couldn't find a way to post a screenshot of the error bubble so I just posted all the text from the message.
I also think that while logged in as testuser I was able to upvote my own post. Is that allowed? Perhaps there are a few others also logged in as testuser and one of them upvoted it.
Anyway, I like this. With faster load times this could be as fun as Reddit used to be.
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Very cool that you built this in such a short time! It makes me wonder if there will be a new segment of programmers that specialize in superfast no-code app creation.
Would they be programmers? Shouldn't we call them no-programmers?
Timeout. I think this shows one problem of no-code. The underlying code and data structures are probably horribly bad. Every $5/month box should handle HN traffic easily for a reddit style application. With the right indexes on the DB tables, an out of the box Debian LAMP stack is insanely fast for this type of use case.
Sounds like a fun hackday to me.
To use a Reddit term, ELI5 what "no code" actually means. As someone who's only ever seen the term in passing on HN, I don't understand if there's a distinction from coding in a very high level and/or visual environment. To try and make it concrete by comparing with things I've personally seen: Is LabVIEW "no code"? Is Max/MSP "no code"? Was Dreamweaver "no code"? Is building an FX pipeline in Houdini "no code"?
One 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…
Great point. There's certainly much more that goes into building a site like Reddit than what goes into building a clone in two weeks. The purpose of this is to show the potential of what can be done in no-code. No-code is still in it's very early days, and I think that a lot of its capabilities will improve over time. Also, it's very possible that a lot of the inefficiencies in no-code apps are a result of the build…
One 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…
Of course, the only reason Reddit has value at all is also its user community providing and ranking curated information. It's not the frontend, but it's also not the reliability or scalability or whatever else they have going on in the backend. Just as no one ever bought Encyclopedia Britannica back in the day because of the technical quality of the binding, though I'm sure it was top notch.
I love no code! Wait. Wait. Hear me out... Building software is easy. Changing people's minds is damned near impossible. As an engineer: - I'm constantly handed shitty (or a complete lack thereof) requirements from non-technical people. No code lets people figure out that they haven't thought something out nearly as much as they think they have. I no longer am the bearer of bad news. - I constantly see business peopl…
Can you elaborate on the list of problems with no-code? Of course I'm not denying there are problems with no-code, I'd like to learn about other developers' issues, particularly with larger, longer-term projects.
The imagined problem no-code addresses is business people thinking that their requirements are simple, and the source of their problems are expensive software developers and programming languages. Just get a junior business analyst to drag some boxes around, and job done. They are wrong.
This pattern has been repeated for decades now.
Worth pointing out that bubble.io has different tiers. So, while this app is obviously overloaded, you have the (somewhat expensive) option of adding dedicated hardware to your server pool.