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

by mansigandhi on 10/28/13, 10:34 AM with 4 comments

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!

  • by sathley on 10/28/13, 11:21 AM

    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.
  • by ctindall on 10/28/13, 10:49 AM

    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.