Build a lookalike platform?
To keep it short, I wish to create a marketplace platform that resembles an existing platform. My desire is to niche down and focus on different users but generally the app functions very similarly.
It will be a directory of "users" with a ui similar to Nomadlist. The directory has categories and can be filtered by different metrics.
I know it's vague but was curious if no-code can get me started until I need more customization?
Also curious if there is a way to clone the existing platform and customize it how I need to.
Thanks in advance
I don't think there is any reasonable way to "clone" an existing platform outside of copying the html and css. The javascript for the frontend will be minified and hard to work with. You will almost certainly not be able to clone the backend.
That being said, I'd look at sheets2site or several indie projects doing notion and airtable to website. These might be the best no-code options to create a data based site.
You might also consider just creating a read-only shared google sheet or Notion table to see if you can get traction, before investing in building a site.
Thanks for the recommendation Saq. Sheet2site looks exactly like what im looking for.
The problem is, the directory I want to create includes non-static metrics like social followers, comment totals, engagement rate, etc. So I can brute force it and manually create a sheet to test viability but the list will need to be updated way too often for it to be worth if not automated.
I know there are python lead scrapers and stuff but im curious if there is something more black box where there can be a daily refresh to parse all the totals and populate them that way.
Even if that means getting a custom web scraper that has a more non-tech interface I can integrate on my site's backend.
Scraping is a tricky thing because you need to define the scraping rules for each page that you intend to scrape.
Have you looked at https://www.parsehub.com/ ?
You could string a solution together with this and zapier and sheets2site.
Let me know if this does or doesn’t meet your needs. Building a no code scraper seems like an interesting project to me.