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Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks

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Post by colejohnson66 »

arghwhat wrote: post #31
alpaca128 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

It does handle many orders of magnitude more users than this thing does though. As a site that is the source of many hugs of death, it's serving a hell of a lot of traffic, mostly successfully. It could serve even more traffic if it was less bloated of course. EDIT: Some random stats from 2019 suggest that they're handling ~1000 pageviews a second on average over a month, and a view can take >100 requests to load. Co…

Over 100 requests per load? That has to be static files like images, right? Do they not have a cache system for that (like what Cloudflare provides)?

Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks

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Post by ren_engineer »

devortel wrote: post #62
_omnf wrote: post #43

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.

most obvious would be you are building your business on rented land and could be deplatformed at any time plus strong armed into extreme markup prices with no leverage against the platform.

The other issue is that it seems doubtful the product could scale beyond a certain level in terms of traffic and also employees collaborating to add features

Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks

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Post by colejohnson66 »

hexa22 wrote: post #87
Shiku wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Isn’t no code and GUI software builders an idea that has been tried for decades? Wasn’t Adobe dream weaver one of the early tools?

Dream weaver was a WYSIWYG website builder that offered the ability to edit the “raw” HTML. If you want mockups/wireframes/etc., there’s Adobe XD.

Tangent: who names these things? XD? Where did that come from? It looks like a laughing emoticon…

Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks

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Post by Shiku »

ALittleLight wrote: post #15

I wasn't able to get it working. I'm on mobile. Page load very slow at first and resolved to an error (didn't copy it, sorry). Second attempt loaded a header and some elements but no content. I tried to click every element that looked interactable but nothing responded.

Sorry for not clarifying earlier. This was built to be a web-first clone only. It does not work on mobile.

Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks

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Post by _tpwu »

tbran wrote: post #53
Shiku wrote: post #40

Hey HN: Thanks for everyone who has tried to visit the site. The surge in traffic was unexpected, and I realize that it slowed down the load time, so I've added a 'boost' to the site. Besides that, I should also clarify that this site was built to be 'web first'. It currently does not work on mobile (I didn't design it to work on mobile since I was only working on it for 2 weeks). Hope the site loads better now. Will…

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.

That's a subtle throwback to visual basic, I think, but not in a negative way.

Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks

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Post by replwoacause »

I gave bubble a serious look and quickly discovered its performance was abysmal. I suppose it is OK if you want to prototype or create an MVP, but if you think you are going to create something that can scale you are sorely mistaken. Considering this, I found it to not be worth the learning curve since the time I would spend would be a sunk cost if the app were to actually take off because it would need to be completely rewritten in actual code.

Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks

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Post by ben-gy »

This is impressive for sure. It really makes me think how hackathons must be evolving with this type of tech available (last hackathon I participated in was ~8 years ago).

That said, and I feel a bit old for saying this, but I still prefer to write the code myself.

In every instance (so far) I’ve found I can produce the exact outcomes required faster by writing code (Rails is still crazy fast to scaffold solutions and install libraries) than trying to force a no-code/low-code platform to produce an equivalent outcome in a similar time frame.

Anyone else feel this way?

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