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Valeria

I've finally found the time and published 3 (!) articles from my beginner-friendly zero-to-hero series "Building a Social Network" this week ! 😎

Here's the latest one:

I'm very excited about this project and hope it'll help someone learn full-stack development from drawing a sketch to deploying an enterprise-grade product to the cloud:-)

Here's a sneak peak to how it might look like in the end:
Animated prototype

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GrahamTheDev

What an awesome project and series, who knows you might be building the next Twitter or Facebook! ðŸ”Ĩ

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Valeria

Thank you :-)
I'll take it as a compliment, though the intention really is to encourage niched (and therefore distributed) communities. For me this project is more about knowledge sharing and creating a generic solution me or someone else can reuse in the future personal or commercial projects

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GrahamTheDev

Try again then, "who knows you might build the next Forem!" 😋ðŸĪĢ

Sounds interesting 👍

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Valeria

Why would I do it if Forem is open source? ðŸĪ“
You know I'm still haunting you for the hex table, right? ðŸĪŠ

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GrahamTheDev • Edited

Why would I do it if Forem is open source? ðŸĪ“

  • Because not everything has to be open source
  • Because Forem is only one way of solving the problem of bringing niche communities together and giving them a platform
  • Because it gives you loads of things to write about
  • Because you can monetise it
  • Because you could build it in a different language for people who don't know rails
  • Because I need somewhere else to showcase my useless lookup tables ðŸĪĢ

I could go on (as you well know lol!)