I parsed 968 launches from /r/SideProject and analyzed them with Claude 3 Opus

[rae171710]

Data Overview​

• I searched for all posts from this subreddit that contained these strings: "I built", "I made an alternative to", "I created a clone of".
• Most posts are

 

[rae171710]

If you want to play with the dataset, upload it to Claude/ChatGPT to ask your own questions, you can get the JSON here.

 

[badboy29]

@rae171710 you scrape and put all in one ask? how many token is that? and how much you charged per ask?

 

[rae171710]

@badboy29 Nope, scraped via JS. Then uploaded the file to Claude and asked questions.

I explained the process in this video on my YT channel

The data is 18,297 tokens long.

I paid $20 (the subscription to Claude Opus).

 

[badboy29]

@rae171710 can I try opus for free?

 

[rae171710]

@badboy29 Nope.

 

[anthony9716]

@rae171710 Wow, I love the analysis. Thank you for sharing!

 

[coleton_7]

@rae171710 That's interesting stats! Specifically the amount of cloning twitter xD

 

[shuvah77]

@rae171710 Great insight! Thanks a lot!

Do you have the list of the twitter clones, please?

 

[rae171710]

@shuvah77 Here are the 16 titles for "Twitter (social network) clones":

1. "A decentralized Twitter alternative"
2. "A Twitter Alternative to Rival Twitter!"
3. "I built a Twitter clone for my junior portfolio. Created with Next.js, Firebase, and Tailwind CSS."
4. "I built a decentralized Twitter alternative"
5. "I made a twitter alternative without comments and photos !"
6. "OnlyCats - A Crowd-sourced/community Twitter (X) page of AI Cat Images"
7. "Reddit + Twitter OSS clone"
8. "Tired of Twitter? I made Botter, and it's probably worse."
9. "Twitter alternative : teetar.in (under active development)"
10. "SpeakBits - A reddit alternative without the corporate baggage"
11. "Warbly - An app for people who are done compromising with Instagram and want to try something new"
12. "Tired of all the BS on LinkedIn, we decided to build our own networking platform"
13. "Remote Workers Network: a global platform connecting skilled professionals with remote-friendly companies"
14. "No More Facebook, I made a site of privacy-friendly alternatives to Facebook products"
15. "Sharfly Launches Its Own Social Media Platform Seen As A Safer Facebook Alternative"
16. "bublol - A reddit-alternative with tags and followers"

 

[shuvah77]

@rae171710 Thanks a lot!

 

[christian1724]

@rae171710 Love that! My post probably missed the cut Thanks for the efforts helping the community!

Looks like Website builders wins.

 

[jacquesr]

@rae171710 Twitter bring me here