I want to create an app similar to reddit but without features like pm or creating communities or karma or complicated stuff like that.
Basically the users post and add a category, so each post is put into one of 10 different categories lets imagine one of the topics is cars so if im going to make a post about cars I put it in the cars topic and when people are browsing the cars category they see my posts they also have a feed of the topics they follow, each category will be subdivided into smaller more specific categories like, supercars, suv, trucks etc.
Users can add any type of file or link to post im not sure if this was a good explanation of what im trying to do but how would I make it so the posts appear on the feed and put the posts into the different topics.
Bubble is built just for this purpose. As a matter of fact, a Reddit-style app is probably the easiest thing you could do.
Plus, adding Karma and creating communities is also completely doable in Bubble.
I encourage you to start by designing your data structure. For example
One data type for categories (and subcategories)
One data type for comments
One data type for users (which contains followed categories)
One data type for topics (which contains categories and comments)
…and so on
This is a great way to visualize the way your app will work.
You can then start experimenting with say, a user creating a new topic within a category, filtering a list of topics by the user’s followed categories, etc.
In case you haven’t done so, the new “How to build…” series from Bubble is a great place to start. Perhaps the Craigslist tutorial could be particularly useful:
