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How many HN clones using X new JS framework XYZ or UI reskins are out there in the wild using the Firebase API? It feels like you see one on the front page at
by thrower123 7y ago
How many HN clones using X new JS framework XYZ or UI reskins are out there in the wild using the Firebase API? It feels like you see one on the front page at least once a week. And that is what almost all of these sites shown in the screenshots of the article are, not some kind of grey/black hat SEO optimization ring.
- Juliancanlas 7y agoInteresting! Do you have any clue on why these websites are being made? Reddit also has many aggregators, but some of them are literal blogger websites.
- thrower123 7y agoHN is a relatively simple, well understood web site, and there is an easy-to-use API that one can get access to without much ceremony. It's almost as common a "getting started" type project for a new front-end framework as creating yet another todo list app. I've assigned it as a take-home project for job candidates before.