How easy is it to port Discourse community to custom webapp later?

Hi Paras,

Can you share some of your findings please? Do you have any clue about how difficult it is to develop simple and medium complexity features? I guess the developers need to have experience with the stack. But then they need to figure out the workings of the platform and then start puzzling and building? Apart from the examples give in the comments, is this done a lot? Why/why not?

Thank you