Lobsters

Lobsters is a computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion, launched on July 3rd, 2012

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What is Lobsters?

Lobsters is a technology-focused link-aggregation site. The site is driven by Ruby on Rails icon Ruby on Rails with the source code being freely available for those seeking to create a site similar to Reddit or Hackernews.

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Developed byJoshua Stein
LicensingOpen Source and Free product.
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I would very much appreciate an invite to lobste.rs if possible. If anyone has a membership.

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Sourced data about real world topics. to heavily programming/tech to quite compare with YC, but seems like a higher IQ base than most of these other suggestions.

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Ruby on Rails

Source https://github.com/jcs/lobsters

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