Ask HN: How hard would it be to create a website like HN?

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I'm getting into webdev and wish to create a website similar to HN. How much overall experience or knowledge in which languages would be required?

Thanks.

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I actually started a simple HN-like site in python+Django two weeks ago because I was bored, which you can study and use/modify since it's free software:

https://sic.nessuent.xyz/

https://sic.nessuent.xyz/about/

https://github.com/epilys/sic/

At minimum you probably need HTML, CSS, SQL and a back-end language (which could be anything). One of the hardest parts is the nested comments. Building the moderation system may be a large task. Here's my ongoing attempt:

https://github.com/ferg1e/peaches-n-stink

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