I’m wondering what would be the easiest way to build a mobile forum app similar to Blind. Any ideas? Working on a data science startup that needs to have a community forum aspect to it. The forum should be just like Blind except instead of showing which company you are from, it shows some other relevant data for each user that comes from the rest of our product.
Just like @DynamoDB said, it really is just a basic crud app. Regardless I would use this tech stack: React Native, GraphQL, Node, Express, PostgreSQL, and socket.io.
Why graphQL ?
Solves the issue with over/under fetching data. It also allows you to interface with your endpoints in a more flexible manner allowing front end development to go smoother.
I would rather let someone else (AWS) worry about scaling. Serverless framework. JS is really nice on Serverless (I moved away from Go with Serverless), but use whatever you prefer language-wise. DynamoDB, GraphQL, API Gateway, Route 53, CloudFront. Automate infrastructure with CloudFormation or Terraform. Elasticsearch for searching.
Backed could be anything that can contain a server. Use AWS :) That will take care of scaling (to some extent) Blind all in all is just a basic CRUD app. There's nothing really special about it.