Ask HN: Stack Exchange Clone Needed

Posted by Sol2Sol on Saturday October 29, 2011 @11:48PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I want to test an idea I have using the Q&A collaborative format and I need something similar to Stack Exchange that will allow users to post news items and ask and answer questions. It would be similar to Stack Exchange format or even the format of this site. What would people here recommend? I'm not a developer so I'd have to outsource the development/configuration to someone but I'm just trying to get a feel for what is out there that will allow me to run this test in the simplest most cost effective way possible.

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Re:Ask HN: Stack Exchange Clone Needed by tsm on Sunday October 30, 2011 @01:01AM (#3173682)

HN itself is open source (included with Arc: http://arclanguage.org/install), as is reddit (https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki). It does sound like Openqa is a better option though.

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Re:Ask HN: Stack Exchange Clone Needed by arkitaip on Sunday October 30, 2011 @12:02AM (#3173600)

There's always Lamer News, "an HN style social news site written in Ruby/Sinatra/Redis/JQuery"

https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

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Re:Ask HN: Stack Exchange Clone Needed by ahamidi on Sunday October 30, 2011 @03:36AM (#3173870)

I recently came across Coordino (http://coordino.com/). I haven't tried it out myself, but it looks pretty polished.

It's also Open Source.

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Re:Ask HN: Stack Exchange Clone Needed by izak30 on Sunday October 30, 2011 @12:34AM (#3173637)

Openqa is a clone of stack exchange for django. There are several. Google is your friend here.

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Re:Ask HN: Stack Exchange Clone Needed by hwf829 on Sunday October 30, 2011 @12:34AM (#3173640)

nice. test out your hypothesis first. :)

try OSQA. Heard it's good. thanks. get a host like uhm webfaction.

Goodluck! Outsource to RoRers / pythonistas in the Philippines.

I heard this guy is good - bryanbibat.net

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Re:Ask HN: Stack Exchange Clone Needed by dalke on Sunday October 30, 2011 @03:21AM (#3173848)

Second the OSQA. Used it on a project last year. Clean code, clean templates, easy to modify.

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Re:Ask HN: Stack Exchange Clone Needed by latch on Sunday October 30, 2011 @05:03AM (#3173966)

http://shapado.com/

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