Show HN: Twitter Clone Social App

(pw.wzm.me)

3 points | by vinceleo 821 days ago

1 comments

  • melissalobos 821 days ago
    > Post Wall is an Elgg template developed by subterraneanwebZ web dev lab. This template includes all plugins with some customizations and improvements to quickly start your own social network (All-in-One Box). You can buy this template on eStore - Digital marketplace.

    Looks pretty interesting, so this is a product to sell to other web developers? Or is the target a regular technical person who wants to set up a twitter clone? I hadn't heard of Elgg before, did you find it easy to work with? Overall how has your experience been, have you had any buyers yet?

    Also have you thought much about content moderation on the platform? Are you expecting that to be a big concern from potential buyers?

    • gannoq 821 days ago
      Hi,

      I'm one of the lead developers and product manager on wzm.me. Thanks for feedback!

      > Looks pretty interesting, so this is a product to sell to other web developers? Or is the target a regular technical person who wants to set up a twitter clone?

      Right, it's a demo product and live site at the same time. It's a distribution ready to install on the server, as well Elgg core and custom plugins for developers.

      > I hadn't heard of Elgg before, did you find it easy to work with?

      I joined Elgg about 10 years ago. It was much easier to start making projects with it than with Wordpress. Elgg have a flexible API. But Elgg is a framework not CMS; it's stops some developers from using Elgg.

      > Overall how has your experience been, have you had any buyers yet?

      Our team has been around since 2010. The platform as SaaS was launched in 2018. There's a marketplace since 2016. We've buyers and some of them have been regular customers for many years.

      Also, there're an open source distributives based on Elgg: [1] [2] [3]

      > Also have you thought much about content moderation on the platform? Are you expecting that to be a big concern from potential buyers?

      Every distribution has built-in moderation and super-moderation systems, users/groups' roles and more features. By default, Elgg has built-in access levels on read/view/write/edit/delete any conrtent, entity, user, and group.

      IMO, Elgg as the most secure framework out-of-box for creating apps with social interactions.

      [1] https://gitlab.com/minds [2] https://gitlab.com/pleio/pleio [3] https://github.com/gctools-outilsgc/gcconnex