Hello IH Nation, I am following this amazing community for a few months and it increased my appetite for starting a side project. I have an idea: a HackerNews/DesginerNews for a specific industry*.
As I am not a technical person but I still want to build it myself. I saw a lot going around here on IH threads that Webflow could be a suitable way to built it. I have set up 2-3 Wordpress sites, only installing plugins for some light features, but I think would be very hard for me (because of my tech gaps) to build this product in Wordpress with the following features*:
So... I can do it with Webflow? If not, what else would you recommend me? How long do you think would take me to built it?
I know I have a lot of questions, but I am pretty newbie in creating stuff in general. Thanks in advance for your answers!
** More features will stay for the moment in my had, I cannot articulate them in a understandable language.
You can use Discourse (https://www.discourse.org/).
Thanks for your recommendation, sounds like what I need.
Difficult to build in webflow as can't do up votes in a good way or users login and sign up. It's one of the site's I'm going to build with newco.app but want a clever way to do it.
Alternatives, for WordPress have you looked at rank it wp?
Hellbox.co
Bubble (bigger learning curve) but I have instructors who are submitting videos to teach you how to build it...may be a few weeks until those lessons are released
Thanks a lot for your comment. The link for Hellbox does not work.
Oops it's hellobox.co
Discourse is definitely an option but can get expensive! Votes are a premium integration too.
Try https://flarum.org/ as an alternative to discourse
Flarum looks amazing and it's continuously developing new feature. You can't be inlove with open source stuff.
Thanks for sharing this!