How I built Fluxer, a Discord-like chat app
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A 22-year-old Swedish developer shares the 5-year journey of building Fluxer, an open-source Discord alternative. The platform uses Erlang/OTP for real-time messaging (inspired by Discord's architecture), Cassandra for write-heavy workloads, and TypeScript for the backend. Self-hosters can use SQLite instead. The project is
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Fluxer in 60 secondsNow, my backstoryFluxer's backend (hello Mike!)Fluxer's frontend (have mercy!)Frequently asked questionsClosing thoughts4 Comments
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