Guys I don't actually super want to run a social network :D. But I was curious how fast someone can build one with frontier AI tools and the answer seems to be approx. 2 hours on random Sunday.

(The way it happened is that I saw too many influencer posts in a row on X but instead of ranting about it in text as I'd do before, I realized I could quite easily make the "rant" be the actual working app that I'd want there to be, so here we are.)

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Guys I don't actually super want to run a social network :D. But I was curious how fast someone can build one with frontier AI tools and the answer seems to be approx. 2 hours on random Sunday.

(The way it happened is that I saw too many influencer posts in a row on X but instead of ranting about it in text as I'd do before, I realized I could quite easily make the "rant" be the actual working app that I'd want there to be, so here we are.)

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Guys I don't actually super want to run a social network :D. But I was curious how fast someone can build one with frontier AI tools and the answer seems to be approx. 2 hours on random Sunday.