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by zorr 1484 days ago
At the risk of being downvoted to oblivion: IMHO the best nocode approach is to build a pitch deck, secure funding and hire developers to build it.

The features you are asking for are complex. Both Twitter and Reddit have spent years iterating with large development teams to get these features. And I don't think nocode is ready yet for this complexity.

Even in "highcode" environments these things are not trivial to set up. Have a look at some open source twitter/reddit clone codebases (which typically not even touch payments) and see how complex they are. Now imagine each of these components needs some more complexity on top to make it configurable through "nocode" platforms.

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The hard part is NOT building such a site. The hard part is getting users.

It's almost impossible to get funding for something like this without first demonstrating that you can get users where "demonstrating" means "already has a lot of users and, more important, growth in users". (There are a few people who could get funding for this project before such a demonstration but those people wouldn't be asking this question on hacker news.)

You could use nocode to build a prototype, use that as the platform to get initial users, then get funding and rewrite with code as the userbase grows if the nocode solution can't keep up.