New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Creating a group chat app MVP, worth it to repurpose existing app?
Ask HN: Creating a group chat app MVP, worth it to repurpose existing app?
3 by uname_hidden | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I want to create a mobile chat app MVP (apparently the world needs yet another one!). Basic functionality is various group chats/channels and the ability to DM other users, push notification when mentioned or receiving DM. There is a little more to it that makes it worth using, but the core is the chat/DM Now since there are 1000s of chat apps with this basic functionality, I am thinking is it possible to just get permission from someone, who has group chat app that works but isn't popular, to repurpose their code with some modification instead of building something from scratch? Why reinvent the wheel? I want to test some assumptions before going full on building mode. Any problems with this approach? Has anyone done this? Any ideas of getting this done would be great also (pls see profile if you want to DM). If you had an app and someone approached you like this, what would you think? About me: I was not technical (but know some basics) cofounder of a webapp and led the creation of 1 mobile app.
3 by uname_hidden | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I want to create a mobile chat app MVP (apparently the world needs yet another one!). Basic functionality is various group chats/channels and the ability to DM other users, push notification when mentioned or receiving DM. There is a little more to it that makes it worth using, but the core is the chat/DM Now since there are 1000s of chat apps with this basic functionality, I am thinking is it possible to just get permission from someone, who has group chat app that works but isn't popular, to repurpose their code with some modification instead of building something from scratch? Why reinvent the wheel? I want to test some assumptions before going full on building mode. Any problems with this approach? Has anyone done this? Any ideas of getting this done would be great also (pls see profile if you want to DM). If you had an app and someone approached you like this, what would you think? About me: I was not technical (but know some basics) cofounder of a webapp and led the creation of 1 mobile app.
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