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I built a social network for developers to showcase their projects

Nitin Ranganath on September 20, 2021

TL;DR: Driwwwle is an open-source social network to showcase your projects with like, comments, notifications, profiles and real-time chat. As dev...

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Jay Jeckel • Sep 20 '21

Interesting idea and much props for building a site! However, there are a few things that should be pointed out.

First, looking at the site's github repo, the project source is publicly visible but it isn't open source. To be open source a project must have a permissible license, such as MIT, GPL, Apache, etc. Without a license, the project is proprietary and using the source is technically copyright infringement.

Additionally, the site's landing page doesn't have links to any of the information a cautious user wants to see before signing up, such as Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and an About page. Every website should have these three pages available from every other page of the site and especially from the landing page.

Nitin Ranganath • Sep 20 '21

Hi Jay, these are some extremely valid points. Thanks for bringing them up. It must've slipped through my mind but I'll get started right away. Appreciate you taking your time for letting me know!

Pantelis Theodosiou • Sep 20 '21

Hello @itsnitinr, looks awesome project!
Nice work!

Note: still waiting for the verification email :)

Nitin Ranganath • Sep 20 '21 • Edited

Hi there! Thanks for signing up. Could you please check your promotions tab if you're using Gmail? If you're using Yahoo, you might find the email in the 'Unread' folder. It would've probably ended up there :)

Let me know if you still haven't received it. I'll be happy to send you from my personal email.