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		Capricorn2481 on June 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Anyone Building a Competitor to Reddit? > Step 1. Create an alternative API for Reddit (I've created an MVP for this here: https://api.reddiw.com) How is this working, exactly? Are you just caching API responses from the official one?

dom96 on June 7, 2023 [–]

No, I'm not using the official API at all. I'm scraping + caching.

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