HI IMP,
Thanks a lot for your info. I remember reading the article about the guy who wrote 101out. Thanks for the link. I wish this project to become an open-source soon.
I also remember reading that YC news was an attempt by YC team to work something out in Arc. Thanks again.
I have been around Reddit and YC communities for a while, but never really had the opportunity to jump in on any discussions. Up to now my projects were all in concept develop phase. Now that I am approaching content and communications phases I definitly need to know more about programming, languages, frameworks and all....at least to know how to talk with hackers.
Thanks a lot for your time.
Zelda
1. Here's someone who has created an open-source reddit-like platform in PHP: http://101out.com/ http://101out.com/versions
Unfortunately, it looks like it's not quite released yet. If you want to write your own in Ruby on Rails, this plug-in might be useful: http://rateableplugin.rubyforge.org/
2. Not sure at all about cost. For reference, the 101out.com guy said he built his website in 20 days: http://programming.reddit.com/info/1e3dk/comments
3. No. As someone else mentioned, reddit uses the python framework web.py. This site uses an unreleased version of LISP: http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html
4. Good luck.
5. You should check back on this site frequently because a lot of these issues get discussed here often. There seems to be a good mix of hackers and non-hackers.