Ask HN: How do I go about creating a simple discussion platform?

#1

Post by mansigandhi » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 10:34 AM UTC

Hi folks,

My father has a non-profit org called Manthan (http://www.manthanindia.com/). They have a healthy amount of article sharing + discussion on their Facebook and Yahoo group. I'm looking to start off a segment for high schoolers, Manthan for Teenagers, and want to move that and the above to an independent discussion platform for various reasons.

What is a good (= easy, simple, clean) way to create a platform like HN? Are there existing solutions, possibly open source, that I could build off? Even a plug-in would work. I couldn't find anything myself.

Any help is appreciated!

Re: Ask HN: How do I go about creating a simple discussion platform?

#2

Post by ctindall » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 10:49 AM UTC

http://slashcode.com/

This is the perl that powers slashdot, among other things. I'd say it's sufficiently HN-like to take a look at if that's what your would like.

Re: Ask HN: How do I go about creating a simple discussion platform?

#3

Post by mansigandhi » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 11:06 AM UTC

ctindall wrote: post #2

http://slashcode.com/ This is the perl that powers slashdot, among other things. I'd say it's sufficiently HN-like to take a look at if that's what your would like.

Awesome, thanks! let me take a look at it.

Re: Ask HN: How do I go about creating a simple discussion platform?

#4

Post by sathley » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 11:21 AM UTC

Hey, Manthan seems like a great platform. For your discussion platform you could check out http://www.appyoda.io/ We are a Pune based startup in the Backend as a Service arena. Appyoda is an application we built on our platform. Do give it a try.

Re: Ask HN: How do I go about creating a simple discussion platform?

#5

Post by mansigandhi » Mon, Oct 28, 2013, 12:58 PM UTC

sathley wrote: post #4

Hey, Manthan seems like a great platform. For your discussion platform you could check out http://www.appyoda.io/ We are a Pune based startup in the Backend as a Service arena. Appyoda is an application we built on our platform. Do give it a try.

Thanks sathley -- we should connect. My startup, Shoutt, also also in the Q&A space! Edit: appyoda is, not appacitive. So not the same space.

appyoda looks great btw. And so does appacitive. (sort of like Parse?) Though, I'm looking for something more HN like, built for longer discussions.