[tamrix]

This will make no difference at all.

RIF, Apollo and narwhale apps should all team up and create (or partner up) with a reddit clone.

All the founders of these apps just seem oblivious to this.

Or maybe there's a dead tight contract they signed or something but I'd do it anyway.

[codetrotter]

> All the founders of these apps just seem oblivious to this.

Not oblivious. Read the post by Apollo developer at https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w...

Relevant excerpt:

> Will you build a competitor? Move to one of the existing alternatives?

> I've received so many messages of kind people offering to work with me to build a competitor to Reddit, and while I'm very flattered, that's not something I'm interested in doing. I'm a product guy, I like building fun apps for people to use, and I'm just not personally interested in something more managerial.

> These last several months have also been incredibly exhausting and mentally draining, I don't have it in me to engage in something so enormous.

[Solvency]

This strikes me as weird. He could literally call up any VC firm in the world right now and tell them he'll point his endpoints to a new backend if they give him some money. He doesn't even have to be involved in that part of the business. Just let them figure it out (with their own choice team) and he'll re-rig the app to it.

[rcxdude]

This is still an pretty substantial amount of effort, and a lot of risk. I really don't blame anyone for not doing this, especially if they also have another successful business that they are running already.

[sb8244]

The Apollo founder addresses this directly by saying it's just not an interest of his and that it would be a very large undertaking that he isn't wanting to do atm

[SkyPuncher]

It’s also incredibly risky. You need a tipping point of people on the platform.

[andai]

If I recall correctly, the first version of reddit had an extra "username" field when admins submitted a post, to make it look as though the site had users.

[zerocrates]

Yes they famously did a fake-it-until-you-make-it strategy early on to present a false picture to early adopters of a more vibrant user base.

[trevor-e]

Building the backend component for a social media site like Reddit is much much much harder than slapping a frontend onto an existing API. And it's en entirely different engineering skillset (distributed systems) that many app developers don't have. You really think they are "oblivious to this"? The reality is it's hard to do.

[madeofpalk]

Building the backend is the easy part. Moderating (as in real moderation - horrific content) it is the actual hard part.

[deeviant]

https://tildes.net/

[jumelles]

Do you have any remaining invites?