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To prove your point... https://www.sitepoint.com/reddit-clone-react-firebase/

Yes, it's basically just a scaffold, but something like this could be iterated on. The challenges are around infrastructure and funding to function at scale.

I would personally rather see something that improves on the problems Reddit solves, but tries something completely new. Cloning a product is so uninteresting.



Yes and no, the tech of a forum is not interesting, but fostering a healthy community that generates value is an eternally novel problem as every success has been the result of good timing more than anything else.




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