[TameAntelope]

I’m honestly surprised nobody’s taken the bait here; the answer is a resounding and emphatic no.

You need a team (multiple teams, really) of developers to build and maintain the set of functionality on either Twitter or Reddit.

One 10x dev could probably get something going to kickstart fundraising, but to reach true feature parity, you’re talking multiple teams of engineers executing months (if not years) of work.

[node-bayarea]

In 2022, I'd imagine there is some startup that does this. I'm not asking for something that truly scales to millions of users and has ALL the features of production reddit / hackernews. I'm thinking an MVP production app that has basic things that we all think about that a social networking app would have. I'm surprised that it's still so hard to find a "SaaS in a box" with some sample production apps like Twitter-clone/Reddit-clone, etc that does all the wiring for us.

[TameAntelope]

You've asked for enough features here that make a low-code solution straight up impossible.

Also, if you've ever spent time on any freelancing site, requests like yours come in basically every other project. "I just want a social media app like Reddit/Twitter, here's $50 bucks and two weeks, let me know when you're done."

Honestly, it's a meme at this point, non-technical people asking technical people to build them a Facebook clone and completely failing to understand the immense complexity that goes into building anything for users beyond yourself.

Like I said, I'm surprised nobody here had given you a response like mine yet, given how common this conversation is.

[fulafel]

This doesn't preclude using a low-code platform to do it, unless you assume low-code means producing software without developers.