Show HN: Hacker News desktop app made with Electron and Node
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Re: Show HN: Hacker News desktop app made with Electron and Node
#2If it's Electron & Node, why is it OS X specific?
Re: Show HN: Hacker News desktop app made with Electron and Node
#3Just downloaded! I love it. The only thing I was going to say was I wish it had the ability to resize the window and save the size for each time it opened...then I realized you were one step ahead of me and had done exactly that! Very impressive, and a fantastic example of React and Electron. I'm definitely bookmarking this to come back and learn from the codebase later.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News desktop app made with Electron and Node
#4> Download the latest build for your platform from releases.
Cool !!
Oh.. Mac only right now.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News desktop app made with Electron and Node
#5Can the non-Mac users have some screenshots? I dug around the GitHub repo and the website, but didn't see any.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News desktop app made with Electron and Node
#6Looks great - in all honesty I probably won't use it day to day as I waste enough time checking HN, although perhaps it would be a less distracting way to check it. Source code looks nice and clean, look forward to digging into it!
Re: Show HN: Hacker News desktop app made with Electron and Node
#7I really like it, runs well under openSUSE (you have to download the repo and follow the instructions under "Development" in the readme). Hope to see it's functionality expand further.
Edit:
One thing I would change is maybe make the overall border a more noticeable darker color, I keep getting confused as to where the borders are for when resizing it, and maybe a way of dragging and dropping the window (that is more obvious if it is there, I haven't figured out how to move the window without using what I assume to be KDE specific features).
Re: Show HN: Hacker News desktop app made with Electron and Node
#8Can the non-Mac users have some screenshots? I dug around the GitHub repo and the website, but didn't see any.
See https://hackermenu.io/ their homepage has a screenshot, looks just like that on openSUSE for me.
Re: Show HN: Hacker News desktop app made with Electron and Node
#9Looks cool. But... 100+Mb for a notification app?
Re: Show HN: Hacker News desktop app made with Electron and Node
#10This tool reminds me of a feature in the Vivaldi browser called Web Panels:
https://vivaldi.net/en-US/blogs/teamblog/item/50-snapshot-1-...
You can have a sidebar in your browser with it's own webpage displayed, so you can have Hacker News open no matter what tab you're viewing.