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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
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
XD stands for eXperience Design but I like the emoticon interpretation.
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#113One 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…
> No-code is still in it's very early days
This is simply not true. WYSIWYG is no code and has been around since long before people had catchy names for it. Dreamweaver and FrontPage were early examples of it, the benefit they provided was they attempted to let you design by a GUI first, then they'd let you peak the code underneath. Usually, no-code or low-code these days does not come with the source, which makes it especially useless to anyone who wants to do anything meaningful with it.
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#114This 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 an…
So... I wish I could share how my company/team-within has been approaching federal procurement tech challenges. We've built automation from a design-first perspective, to combine what generation tools like Create React App, Ruby On Rails, .NET Entity, JHipster, openapi, etc all do. But with further abstraction through templating and initial app overhead buildout.
We'd have an mvp reddit in a day, scalable as needed (right now on K8s in any cloud).
Working on open source!!
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#115I 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…
I agree entirely with you, except.. i don't mind the design process (or lack there of) you describe. I feel i get paid for it. I'm in a smaller org and yea, the product team definitely skimps on plenty of details. When i have to point out drastic UX flaws or impossibilities it is definitely frustrating. However i legitimately think that is what they hired for. They wanted someone (well, a team of devs) to deal with t…
> the positions we have that more traditionally handle a more complete design.. are they being overpaid in our org?
Probably, depending on the size of the org. There are lots of places for semi technical people who sort of know what they’re doing, but don’t really provide value, to hang out in a large and growing enterprise sales org. They can collect what I believe are reasonable salaries and just route between the engineers on the customer side who actually know what they want, and engineers on the provider side who can actually provide it.
Any giant coupling between an application and platform ends up looking like this, I.e. pick your favorite Fortune 500 company and their cloud provider, security engagements, hardware vendors etc.
> I don't think i'm being _underpaid_ for my architect + dev hat, but i do wonder if someone else is also being paid for architect but i'm cleaning up for them lol.
Yep. I made a joke recently that in companies that have a formalized promotion process, if you apply for promotion and are denied, one of the consolation prizes should be that you get to apply for someone else to be demoted. I jest, but sometimes it feels like that would be just as helpful and fulfilling.
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#116Hey 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.
We still have many programmers whose entire programming work is customizing WordPress/Drupal themes so I don't doubt it.
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#117This may have had the opposite effect on me. I am no longer worried about being replaced by “no code” Bubble apps now.
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#118"no code", "serverless" Is anyone else annoyed by these terms?
What replacement terms would you recommend?
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#119Slow as hell, to the point it does not load. Isn't this the typical application you don't want to run as nocode? High loads, viral growth.
It was working rather well until the traffic surge from HN. Added a capacity boost to the site so it loads now, but you're right it's rather slow. So you may have a point. As far as an experiment though, it's good to know what the current limitations of no-code are. This was never meant to be anything serious. Just a learning opportunity.
> This was never meant to be anything serious.
Remember the Linux kernel was introduced to the world with pretty much those exact words.
Re: Show HN: Reddit clone built in no-code in two weeks
#120This is extremely slow and laggy on the Pixel 3