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Show HN: my open source "reddit"-like community

by atko on 5/7/14, 8:26 PM with 16 comments

  • by leepowers on 5/7/14, 9:08 PM

    An open-source Reddit clone written in .NET

    For the developer, it seems like a good way to learn more about web development.

    Aside from learning or novelty value, I would probably just fork the Reddit repo on Github if I was looking for a clone, as the reddit.com site code is already open-source:

    https://github.com/reddit/reddit

  • by atko on 5/7/14, 8:30 PM

    I am a 2nd year CS student and this is my side project. The point of the project is to help me better understand asp.net mvc, jquery, sql and all the other bells and whistles that are required to develop something like this. So far, about 90 man hours have gone into this project (only 1 developer). I am constantly improving it and I would love to hear your comments. Go easy on me :)

    ps. the site is running on a rather limited VPS instance which costs me about $15/month.

  • by thebiglebrewski on 5/7/14, 8:49 PM

    Woah, this isn't just reddit-like, this is like, a direct clone. Did you copy their HTML/CSS file?

  • by atko on 5/7/14, 8:54 PM

    65 people browsing the site right now... please don't kill my VPS :p

  • by Mandatum on 5/7/14, 9:02 PM

    Your name-generation for those automated accounts are hilarious.