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Clone Wars: Open-source clones of popular sites

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It seems none of the commenters opened any of the "clones" in the list.

These are only UI clones, at least from the 5 I clicked to try to understand what I was seeing.

They are not clones, alternatives or replacemente, only exercises in UI design and Front-end development.

It is not a bad list but I hate it because the title (and description) teels a differente story. They say they're clones but they are not.

Well, with the exception of the 2048 clone.

What is a clone of not only a superficial copy of a man; without the experiences of life required to build his character?

https://github.com/GorvGoyl/clone-wars

Also:

From HBO's "Silicon Valley":

"Jian Yang, are you copying all of those companies for the Chinese market?":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km5XQxRrQvw

(Jin Yang erases "New Pied Piper" from the whiteboard... <g>)

A good portion of these don't seem to work, for example the "iOS Homescreen" or "Fakebooker" ones.

Depending on your value of work, most of them appear to not "work".

I think this is mostly about partly UI clones.

thanks for the info on dead links, will try to find and replace these with working demo url. sometimes the project author takes down the live demo url like in the case of fakebooker.

It might be helpful to have a clear definition of "clone" on the site. This seems to be mixing a variety of different projects from straight clones of existing services into a new language to new front ends to existing services to completely new and independent apps that fall more into an "inspired by" category.

Looks like an interesting list. I'm not a fan of the scrolling frame though.

Also, I see a number of pseudo-clones missing. For example PeerTube as a replacement for YouTube. However, that could be argued to not be a clone, as PeerTube is distributed.

What would be even more useful would be a full Feature Matrix - ideally including the feature list of the comparable(s).

And perhaps even more useful may be a quick way to see how the data is organized.

The list is also on their readme.md which isn't a scrolling frame if that's what you like.

I just randomly clicked on this and my game is listed in the first ten. Nobody told me I’m on a list?? What a nice surprise. (Battleship is mine!)

A missed opportunity, for Slack they could have put IRC. :)

Bah! I wish Slack had cloned IRC! Slack is more the crappy knock off from the bargain bin at microcenter.

fix the language / naming of this - it's cloned designs geez. Ridiculous to call this a product also? Clickbait spam almost

also posted two days ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26406598

It's unfortunate there are so many React open source projects and so few with Angular!

Because no one likes RXjs

I think that has more to do with the learning curve than with RxJS itself. Once you learn how to use it, it becomes an incredibly powerful tool.

Yeah, what about jQuery too?

Apples & oranges. Angular (web app platform) can't really be compared with jQuery (JS lib) I think. Angular had a rough, chaotic history which hurt its popularity, but if you check out the latest version I think you'd find a very mature, batteries-included framework. Especially for enterprise settings with lots of developers I find it the superior choice. It's just not the coolest kid on the block for all the indie developers.

"Great for learning purpose!" And your phishing campaign too!

If you hate scrolling frame, here is the github repo:

https://github.com/GorvGoyl/clone-wars

I've yet to find anyone clone the netflix carousel properly. A someone trying to do it myself in React it has proven tedious.

@feross thank you for submitting my project. I've been a huge fan of your work in open-source community.

No problem!

Would be nice if the scrollbar weren't replaced by a worse one.

Does anyone know of a reddit/hn clone that supports Oauth2?

What is the advantage of these versus the regular versions?

Airbnb has around 7 million listings vs the clone with 0 listings.

It’s an apples-oranges question, these are just examples of OSS code not actual products.

Often replicated, never duplicated.

add upvotocracy, a reddit clone

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