Ask HN: Building LinkedIn clone, recommend me a stack

Posted by risk000 on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @09:42AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm building a LinkedIn clone and am open to try a new language/platform/framework. What one would you recommend, how have you used it, and what is your overall impression of it compared to other tools you've worked with? Front-end and back-end suggestions welcome.

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Re:Ask HN: Building LinkedIn clone, recommend me a stack by verryperry on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @10:41AM (#10380752)

If you expect this to grow into a huge platform, as in completely replace LinkedIn, use Django, if not, use MeteorJS. Django will allow you to scale very quickly, as it is more robust. However, the learning curve for Meteor is much smaller and will allow you to get a very modern, reactive application up and running quickly.

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Re:Ask HN: Building LinkedIn clone, recommend me a stack by risk000 on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @10:42AM (#10380756)

thanks, that kind of info is useful to me.

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Re:Ask HN: Building LinkedIn clone, recommend me a stack by rosspanda on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @09:46AM (#10380394)

If you are doing it as a CV showcase type thing looking for a job I would do it in C# , why are you doing it?

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Re:Ask HN: Building LinkedIn clone, recommend me a stack by risk000 on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @10:22AM (#10380631)

project for a friend that could become his business/SaaS platform.

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Re:Ask HN: Building LinkedIn clone, recommend me a stack by rndmind on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @11:39AM (#10381164)

Use diaspora or gnu social as a framework, the code is already there and open source.

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Re:Ask HN: Building LinkedIn clone, recommend me a stack by risk000 on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @01:00PM (#10381780)

thanks, looking into it!

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