These days I use WordPress by default simply because there are plugins to do almost anything and pre-built themes are easy find. If you want blog aggregation I used WordPress plus FeedWordPress to create http://planet-microisv.com/
If all you want is a hacker new clone then maybe check out the Reddit source code. Before you rush off and build a hacker news clone you might like to ask Delimiter what happened to Delinker ( http://delimiter.com.au/2010/06/29/were-starting-our-own-reddit-with-hookers-and-blackjack/ ). Rich On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Brendan Quinn <bren...@cluefulmedia.com>wrote: > Hey Elias, > > One simple thing you could do is to build a planet-style aggregator of > blogs and relevant news sites using a little service I built called > aggrity.com. You could create a siliconbeach.aggrity.com and add any > interesting blogs or news sites to the feed, then it updates itself as > new posts appear. I will eventually add new stuff like twitter > integration, daily email updates etc but just as I got the main site > finished a consulting gig appeared so I've been a bit busy recently! > > Let me know if that sounds interesting and I can set you up with an invite > code. > > Brendan Quinn > Founder, http://www.aggrity.com/ (among other things...) > > On 12 June 2011 03:13, Elias Bizannes <elias.bizan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I think it's time we did more with the Silicon Beach website, and two > > specific use cases have become apparent. > > 1) A jobs board. A place where you can list open positions as well as > find > > jobs in the startup community. > > 2) A hacker news service. We all read and share links on Twitter -- why > not > > get it onto a new submission system and have contextual discussions > there? > > I've already talked about this with people and want to implement this so > > what I'm asking is more (and ask this thread be about): > > a) technologies we can use to build something like this. Are there any > > open-source tools people recomend? > > b) people interested in driving these projects in terms of developing > them > > (if open-source doesn't fit our requirements), implementing them, and > > designing them (ie, governance) > > c) synergies with other websites so we make this complementary > > Thanks :-) > > Elias > > Elias Bizannes > > http://eliasbizannes.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. > > Guidelines on discussion: > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e1303508d?hl=en%3Fhl%3Den > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > > To post to this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en > -- -- Rich Buggy r...@buggy.id.au -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e1303508d?hl=en%3Fhl%3Den No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
