Comment by bulbar
2 days ago
What people believe are the core features has never been difficult to implement. Building "something like" Twitter or facebook or reddit has always been possible within a few days.
It's an iceberg, most of the complexity lies underneath the obvious stuff.
But in Twitter or Facebook, the complexity is not in the app but with the scale. How do you support the network, graph, querying, fetching, etc. That is not the case for a self-contained binary like Claude code CLI that talks to the same API irrespective of 100 people are using or 1M people are using around the world.
No like there are dozens of open source Claude code alternatives that are as good or better than Claude code. This isn't a theoretical thing. It's not new either.
Same goes for the reddit and twitter clones.
Do you use one of those open source alternatives?
Not a clone but yes I use alternative social media from twitter and reddit along with a few million other people. Its nice.