Personally I'd still take this kind of article any time over the "why [Twitter |... | Hacker News

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		nir on Feb 26, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Use PHP to build a Twitter-like system on your si... Personally I'd still take this kind of article any time over the "why [Twitter \| Facebook \| etc] is the [next Google \| biggest failure ever]", "5 timeless principles for [ building startups \| coding \| marketing] I just thought of, having done it for almost a year now" or anything from TechCrunch & co.

mikeyur on Feb 26, 2009 [–]

Agreed. I love articles that tell you how to build something from scratch, they always give me new ideas.

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