The easiest way to build a site like IH?
What would be the easiest way to build a simple site similar to IH, Product hunt etc. with the possibility to vote up/down? I know I heard about a tool in a podcast or somewhere, but cannot find it. Thank you
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It would probably be easiest to modify the code for lobste.rs, all of their code is open source and several other community sites are built on it. (https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters)
I will say though, the code is not the hard part of building a community centric site. The success of IH and product hunt are due to the hard community building work of @csallen and @rrhoover and others!
Can you send me an invite to lobste.rs?
I got you. check your mail 👍
Thank you!
I'm actually not a member my self haha
Thanks Chuck, I will check lobsters. You’re right about the hard part for sure.
I have an idea for a niche community that’s very active on FB. This type of site would serve it great in many ways.
You could try a Discourse forum hosted on Digital Ocean with a one click install. I'd say that's pretty easy, although I don't think you can downvote on Discourse.
https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/discourse
Will check, thanks
Give Hittly a spin, its a community software, somewhat IH style. I built it, let me know if you have any questions
Check out the demo community site
This looks decent. :)
the best is telescope http://www.telescopeapp.org/
also somewhat similar dev.to is open source: https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to
There are a few others. I've noted somewhere.
Does anyone else need open source recommendations to get up and running?
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