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Comment on Ask HN: What will it take to create something like CrunchBase?

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The app itself is trivial. It's the gathering of the data that is hard. If you're looking to create a better crunchbase, focus your energy on how to solicit good data from the crowd.

I understand that and I am not looking to create a better crunchbase. I want to understand how hard it is to create something like that, technically. If you spend time on it, it looks fairly sophisticated. You say it's trivial, but how trivial ? For instance, Can someone who knows ruby-on-rails or one of the modern agile web frameworks create an exact replica in a day, a week ? Can someone hack it using wordpress/joomla ?

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