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by ____tom____ 3 hours ago
Reminds of the four college kids that were going to clone Facebook. Turns out it's hard than it looks, if you have never tried it.
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The coding isn't the hard part. It's the people and networking. Facebook's only moat is HOA boards that think private communication behind Facebook groups somehow equates to public messaging a community...

In other words, once people got on it, it was too late.