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Considering that virtually every plugin for Drupal is available on drupal.org, for free, and that all drupal modules are released under the GPL, I think you're going to have a hard time including Drupal in this. Not to mention you'd likely not even get to use the Drupal trademark without Dries' approval, and I strongly doubt this is the kind of thing that would get that approval.

That same thing applies to WordPress. To goal isn't to replace all the free plugins or anything.

Have you ever actually dealt with Drupal and it's modules? The process to install and upgrade them is extremely poor. WordPress is much more technology advanced in that area. The only way to sanely deal with modules in Drupal right now is by using Drush. While using Drush is great and CLI tools will always be needed, other options have an opportunity here.

Yes, I have. I am on the drupal.org engineering team. I suggest you look into composer for managing modules. Also there is momentum on building an automatic update system for drupal, (https://www.drupal.org/node/2367319) so, while things can be improved, there really isn't much business opportunity there.

Oh that's great. Thanks for all the food work.

Composer doesn't provide the same user experience that some people expect coming from the mobile world, which is the intention here. As for as the background updates Drupal Issue opened, that's absolutely great and I think sorely needed. I hope it gets pushed through. That doesn't solve the issue of installing or removing, or handling billing, across multiple sites. Pantheon has some really good tools built-in but outside of that, there's not much available at the moment.

I am not sure HN should be a sounding board for ideas. A better way to do this might be to make a tiny prototype and do a Show HN.

What's show HN?

"Meetup.com Alternative in the Works (melitix.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12309589

Are you building two businesses at the same time? Or just two static pages?

I'm testing market interests in two different ideas so that I can determine which one would have the best chance at succeeding. Thus, which one to invest my time in.

FYI: https://eager.io

Interesting, taking a look.

IMHO, it would be better if you use a different domain with a cheap theme. You can even use both or many more in the same $5 VPS.

The look at this early stage I don't think matters as much. A different domain name would have been better but I was running out of creative juice.

This is really strange. Just 5 days ago there was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12309589 which said this was a meetup.com alternative.

This is taking startup minimalism to new levels. i.e just build a web page with no actual code. But this is what Sam Altman advocated in one of his lectures - how these students stuck posters everywhere on campus about food delivery with no product.

FWIW, I upvoted this. Since this is a good experiment in startup thinking

This is my first time testing an idea this way. I'm still skeptical myself but as you mention, Sam Altman and the whole Lean Startup philosophy suggest testing this way. I'm looking for my next startup to have the best chance to succeed possible so worth a shot.

I appreciate the upvote.

You might want to look at Envato's Themeforest and CodeCanyon

I've seen those. This idea would be different then that. Someone commented another site that looks like it might be actual competing site though.

You will lose to them. CodeCanyon is well run and established.

I'd be happy to answer any questions and discuss ideas with people.

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