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Yep.

The purpose of this post is more about the potential of no-code. Just trying to illustrate that it's possible to build a web app like Reddit using no-code.

The goal really isn't to build a new Reddit.

There is content, and a few people have added some since. It just loaded slow earlier because of the surge in traffic that I was ill prepared for. I've upgraded the site and it should work better now.

You probably need to log in. The landing screen is only a preview of what's in the app. You can interact with the app when you log in, and you can even log in as a test user.

Click login, go to the bottom of the login page, and click 'log in as test user'

This site is not optimised for mobile. Updated the site to reflect this. I built it for desktop viewing only

That was an issue based on the plan I was using in Bubble. I upgraded to a production plan which should work better now.

The Reggit site plan has been upgraded and should load a little faster now.

Also, I'm not technical so I am probably not the best equipped to answer technical comments.

Thanks for all the feedback, both positive and negative. This has been quite the experience.

Sorry for not clarifying earlier. This was built to be a web-first clone only. It does not work on mobile.

True, I've got some Bubble credits so I've upgraded the plan (for the short term only). Will see how that helps

It was working rather well until the traffic surge from HN. Added a capacity boost to the site so it loads now, but you're right it's rather slow. So you may have a point.

As far as an experiment though, it's good to know what the current limitations of no-code are. This was never meant to be anything serious. Just a learning opportunity.

I really hope so.

Also, I think there are a lot of opportunities for coders/programmer to to improve the space and come up with ways to support non-technical folks like myself.

I think those folks will do pretty well.

Thank you! I appreciate the positive feedback :)

I didn't specify on the original post, so sorry about that. It's a web-first platform. It does not work on mobile. Try viewing from desktop.

And the platform I used to build it is bubble.io

Great point. There's certainly much more that goes into building a site like Reddit than what goes into building a clone in two weeks. The purpose of this is to show the potential of what can be done in no-code.

No-code is still in it's very early days, and I think that a lot of its capabilities will improve over time. Also, it's very possible that a lot of the inefficiencies in no-code apps are a result of the builder not the platform (i.e. me in this case). I've been building with Bubble only for a few months, and this is only the second app I've built. I'm sure there are a number of inefficiencies in my workflows, but I'll also improve on that over time as well.

Actually someone already built a twitter clone in Bubble. Worth checking that out too :)

https://notrealtwitter.com/

But as for this site, I've added a boost to the site which should help somewhat with the surge in traffic. My bad for not being prepared for that

LOL

It was completely my bad for not being prepared for a surge in traffic. Should be less slow now since I added a boost to the site. But, yeah, it's definitely not perfect I'll admit.

If you do try again, check it out on desktop not mobile, and let me know.

Maybe it could also be a result of a bunch of people using the test acct, so feel free to create your own test acct.

Thanks for at least giving it a shot :)

Hey HN:

Thanks for everyone who has tried to visit the site. The surge in traffic was unexpected, and I realize that it slowed down the load time, so I've added a 'boost' to the site.

Besides that, I should also clarify that this site was built to be 'web first'. It currently does not work on mobile (I didn't design it to work on mobile since I was only working on it for 2 weeks).

Hope the site loads better now. Will try to respond to other comments below