I’m looking to build a social platform focused on sharing multimedia content like images, GIFs, and videos, with collaborative curation features like tagging, collections, searching, downloading, etc.

Essentially the goal is to make it really easy to post, organize, discover, and collect multimedia content. I envision a mix between booru-style imageboards and Twitter.

I’m looking to use this as a learning project to get more hands-on fullstack and devops experience.

What would you all recommend technology-wise for someone starting out? I have some Python and web dev basics down, but not enough to feel comfortable just jumping into a big project.

Ideally I’d like something with good documentation/tutorials and an active community I can turn to when stuck.

Would love any suggestions on stacks to look into or good starter tutorials/books related to making the jump to a large project like this.

Thanks for any advice!

  • agilob@programming.devEnglish
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    9 months ago

    There are two schools:

    1. the best stack is the one you know best
    2. the best stack is the one designed for the job

    Remember that Google was written in Python and Java. Facebook in PHP. iOS in Objective-C. GitHub in Ruby on Rails.

    • ____@infosec.pub
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      9 months ago

      Appreciate you pointing out those examples - while one could argue errors in judgement, going with what one knows allows for getting stuff done NOW.

      Have to say, FB and G examples resonate most with me because while Java is hardly “rapid,” given a well-defined objective I can bang out PHP or Python to accomplish it quickly, and then iterate efficiently.

      That was doable long before the idea of iterating quickly / failing big / etc entered the public consciousness. Just not in Java…

      • agilob@programming.devEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Just not in Java…

        I think you’re biased against Java. Amazon was started in C/C++ and Java J2EE during times when to configure a webserver required writing like 300 lines of XML just to handle cookies, browser cache and a login page. Until recently BMW had their own JRE implementation. It’s not a secret that simcards, including these in Tesla cars run JavaCard too, even government issues sim cards in EU have to run Java Card, not C++. Everything was always fine with Java until ECMA Script appeared and made people iterate on software versions faster. New programming languages and team organisation methodologies left some programming languages in the dark, but this included C# too. All are quickly catching up. If Java was so bad, it wouldn’t be here with us today, like Perl.