This project is built on the Stamplay platform to show you how to build your own clone of Hacker News in just 30 minutes.
Hacker News is a popular social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. If you’re hacker or work in the startup space, you’ve almost certainly heard of it and perhaps even contribute to it!
In this tutorial we’ll show you how to glue together Stamplay, Algolia, and Mailgun APIs to build a clone of Hacker News. The app will feature the following functionalities:
- users can signup and login with email and password
- users can submit posts
- users can upvote and comment on posts
- posts will be indexed in Algolia and users will have typeahead
- search users will receive a welcome email after they signup using the Mailgun API
- use Stamplay web hosting
Here’s what you’ll build – all in less than 30 minutes (the user record is 19 minutes). Awesome!