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I mean, it's 2023. Web-based simple threaded conversation platforms should be absolutely trivial to develop/clone/deploy. I'm not convinced building a Reddit i
by Solvency 3y ago
I mean, it's 2023. Web-based simple threaded conversation platforms should be absolutely trivial to develop/clone/deploy.
I'm not convinced building a Reddit is hard, at all.
But getting a mass adoption of users to make it worth using is.
Which is why I'm continually surprised some startup+VC combo doesn't just build it and then pay the top 1000 broad-to-niche influencers out there to sign up and start relentlessly hawking it on their various social medias.
- nightski 3y agoThis gives me Mixer vibes.
- jacksnipe 3y agoServing nearly-consistent content and ads to 1 Billion people worldwide is fucking hard!
- arp242 3y agoBuilding the software is the easy part. It's everything else that's hard.
- bryancoxwell 3y agoThat’s the thing though. It’s not purely a technical problem. Building a Reddit clone may be easy (I don’t know, I’ve never tried), but building a social network is more than just building a web app!
- roncesvalles 3y agoThe hard part is dealing with abuse. If you could guarantee that all content posted will be kosher and in good faith, building a basic scalable Reddit backend is not super hard.