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Posted by Danny Slewa
Danny Slewa
2,294 Points

I'm looking to create a social media platform but I don't know where to begin.

I jotted down major notes about what I want to accomplish but I feel like the tracks available are not targeted towards building a social media platform. They are more towards building websites, weather, a story line, etc, which is amazing but it's not parallel with my desired goals. I understand I need to build it on one platform (Android, since it's the biggest market) and than transfer the codes onto the other platforms. I just don't know where to start exactly.

5 Answers

William Li
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William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

Hi, Danny, In order to build a Social Platform, you first need to know how to build a Social platform. Treehouse actually has couple of Rails courses on that.

  1. Building Social Features in Ruby on Rails
  2. Advanced Social Features in Ruby on Rails
Danny Slewa
Danny Slewa
2,294 Points

I clicked the first Ruby Rails but when I watch the video it says that its a continuation to a previous project called Treebook. Care to share the first track please.

Danny Slewa
Danny Slewa
2,294 Points
Danny Slewa
Danny Slewa
2,294 Points

I appreciate yall! Thank You!

Danny Slewa
Danny Slewa
2,294 Points
Danny Slewa
Danny Slewa
2,294 Points

I'll check them out. So, these are the tracks I should consider first, than what? Are you telling me upon completion, I should be on my way to creating one?

Kevin VanConant
Kevin VanConant
1,833 Points
Kevin VanConant
Kevin VanConant
1,833 Points

I would also look at the Android and iOS Development if you want to make it mobile based.

Danny Slewa
Danny Slewa
2,294 Points
Danny Slewa
Danny Slewa
2,294 Points

definitely want to make it strictly mobile based. I want to create a website for the app to be downloaded from to be used strictly on mobile devices.

Kevin VanConant
Kevin VanConant
1,833 Points
Kevin VanConant
Kevin VanConant
1,833 Points

I would definitely look at the mobile development. If you want to start with Android apps I would start with the Android development track.

Danny Slewa
Danny Slewa
2,294 Points
Danny Slewa
Danny Slewa
2,294 Points

Perfect. Y'all are great. So, I should definitely do Ruby rails like the above displayed and than the mobile setting than I should be fine?

Kevin VanConant
Kevin VanConant
1,833 Points
Kevin VanConant
Kevin VanConant
1,833 Points

That is the path I would take.