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Ask YC: Open source platform for a social network with lots of UGC(structured)

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Ask YC: Open source platform for a social network with lots of UGC(structured)

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Post by jyothi »

I want to put up a quick prototype of a community based site with lots of structured user generated content. Support for multi-media content is preferred. Please suggest.

I need an open source solution rather than a hosted platform.

I am considering Insoshi - http://portal.insoshi.com/. Drupal with specific templates might work too.

Anything more robust and cleanly designed ?

PS: I would essentially build on top of the platform. I expect to have lot of changes in layout and interactions. As long as I cut down the development effort on the common things - sign up, profile page, connections, feeds etc i am good.

Re: Ask YC: Open source platform for a social network with lots of UGC(structured)

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Post by jyothi »

greatreorx wrote: post #4

Unless you aren't interested in using Ruby on Rails, you might want to check out LovdByLess: http://lovdbyless.com

thanks for the link. Seems to have a bunch of features I am interested in. I see that it has had close to 17K downloads and a quick search didn't result in many reviews or fan following.

How mature is this? Would you have a first hand experience using this platform by any chance ?

Re: Ask YC: Open source platform for a social network with lots of UGC(structured)

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Post by jyothi »

dnaquin wrote: post #2

Pinax http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J91Ownq-7g

Ah python. I am more comfortable with php, ruby, java and perl. But can hack anyway if its going to be a huge plus using pinax in terms of features etc.

But what I infer from the video and James Tauber blog is that it is far from being mature and not ahead of drupal either. Your thoughts ?

Re: Ask YC: Open source platform for a social network with lots of UGC(structured)

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Post by greatreorx »

jyothi wrote: post #5
greatreorx wrote: post #4

Unless you aren't interested in using Ruby on Rails, you might want to check out LovdByLess: http://lovdbyless.com

thanks for the link. Seems to have a bunch of features I am interested in. I see that it has had close to 17K downloads and a quick search didn't result in many reviews or fan following. How mature is this? Would you have a first hand experience using this platform by any chance ?

It's only about 6 months old. My only experience was getting it up and running locally and testing out the functionality. It took a couple of hours to get going (mostly due to updating gem versions). From my standpoint I was happy with how it looked. I had considered Wordpress and Drupal, but I liked the smaller, more manageable codebase - even if it meant I may be fixing bugs in the project code as I went.

I hadn't checked in on the project in awhile. I'm surprised it's not more active. FYI it looks like there was a fork recently and Luvfoo is being more actively developed (but no existing community)

http://www.justinball.com/projects/

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