Show HN: I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News

#1

Post by abronte » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 9:59 PM UTC

I noticed I was getting side tracked reading Hacker News, checking back, reading articles, comments, etc. It felt like my productivity was being hampered so I created a simple web app to receive the most popular stories in a daily email.

http://dailyhn.com

Re: Show HN: I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News

#2

Post by abronte » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 9:59 PM UTC

http://dailyhn.com

Re: Show HN: I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News

#3

Post by lpolovets » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 10:04 PM UTC

This is great. A few comments/suggestions:

1) Would be nice to see a preview email. Is it links to stories? Stories? Stories + comments? Something else?

2) I'd love to be able to set the point threshold. E.g. email me stories with at least 49 points.

Re: Show HN: I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News

#4

Post by abronte » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 10:09 PM UTC

lpolovets wrote: post #3

This is great. A few comments/suggestions: 1) Would be nice to see a preview email. Is it links to stories? Stories? Stories + comments? Something else? 2) I'd love to be able to set the point threshold. E.g. email me stories with at least 49 points.

1) Heres a preview image http://i.imgur.com/6D46M.png

2) It takes any story that makes the top 10 on the front page and are over 40 points. (I plan on making this customizable)

Re: Show HN: I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News

#5

Post by techn_in » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 10:10 PM UTC

lpolovets wrote: post #3

This is great. A few comments/suggestions: 1) Would be nice to see a preview email. Is it links to stories? Stories? Stories + comments? Something else? 2) I'd love to be able to set the point threshold. E.g. email me stories with at least 49 points.

yeah point threshold would be awesome

Re: Show HN: I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News

#6

Post by _delirium » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 11:14 PM UTC

you might also be interested in: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

not exactly the same thing, but targeting the same problem

Re: Show HN: I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News

#7

Post by Mz » Sun, Jul 17, 2011, 11:44 PM UTC

I actually love it when a community has this type of problem: Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup. And it's awesome that folks on HN are so well equipped (and willing) to offer real solutions/options rather than just whining and arguing about it (an outcome common in other communities I have belonged to with this type problem where the right skill set for addressing it was not common).

Re: Show HN: I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News

#8

Post by mwhite » Mon, Jul 18, 2011, 1:11 AM UTC

I would like to do this for some subreddits I check too often as well. Maybe it could also be done for RSS feeds, using comment, Facebook like, and Twitter mention counts to determine which articles are more popular.

Re: Show HN: I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News

#9

Post by abronte » Mon, Jul 18, 2011, 1:25 AM UTC

mwhite wrote: post #8

I would like to do this for some subreddits I check too often as well. Maybe it could also be done for RSS feeds, using comment, Facebook like, and Twitter mention counts to determine which articles are more popular.

You read my mind :). I want to fork this code base and apply it to reddit.

Re: Show HN: I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News

#10

Post by KnightWhoSaysNi » Mon, Jul 18, 2011, 12:19 PM UTC

I published something similar recently: http://hndigest.com