Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by meteor333 » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 6:15 PM UTC

yodon wrote: post #6

Two news sources that I'd like to see added are memeorandum.com (the best algorithmicly generated news feed I've found) and drudgereport.com (whose politics I disagree with but it's a hugely influential site and I try to avoid trapping myself in a bubble). I haven't found a news reader type app that handles those two sites, so I find myself wasting huge amounts of time hitting those two pages and trying to skim their…

Looks like both are news aggregators themselves. It kind of makes it tricky. Let me look into it.

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by webwanderings » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 6:20 PM UTC

How are you going to sustain this? It is fairly fast and slick (I am a daily RSS reader who follow hundred of sources).

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by amrrs » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 6:21 PM UTC

So it's PWA? So you must be able to send Push Notifications to Android devices? I'd be happy about it.

Ability to swipe out cards?

Nevertheless, A very clean minimalistic design choice.

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by cdurth » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 6:30 PM UTC

not bad!

but for sanity on desktop

#feed { overflow-y:hidden }

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by meteor333 » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 6:31 PM UTC

webwanderings wrote: post #12

How are you going to sustain this? It is fairly fast and slick (I am a daily RSS reader who follow hundred of sources).

Thank you! Im definitely going to offer monthly subscription plan so I can sustain it. Im okay to have just 10 regular users to keep it going since I want to keep it live just for my sake as well :)

Would you pay for it? how much do you think?

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by alexland » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 6:38 PM UTC

Any plans for the ability to add custom sources? I'm assuming that's not a trivial thing to add, but definitely something I'd be interested in.

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by fireworks10 » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 6:52 PM UTC

Awesome. Curious, what are you using to scrape sources, and for social counts?

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by meteor333 » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 6:54 PM UTC

alexland wrote: post #16

Any plans for the ability to add custom sources? I'm assuming that's not a trivial thing to add, but definitely something I'd be interested in.

Definitely. Thats the next important thing im working on. Stay tuned!

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by usuallymatt » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 6:56 PM UTC

I really like this! The only comment I'd make is to make the sidebar static so it stays there when you scroll down. Would be nice to switch topics quickly after I'm done skimming through headlines of another topic. Other than that I love it.

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by neilellis » Tue, Sep 19, 2017, 6:58 PM UTC

When you get chance please wrap it is a desktop app, it's the sort of app I'd keep running like Tweetbot.

Oh and well done!

A competitor to Google News is great. The main problem I have with Google News is that it is always a few steps behind Twitter. It's really good if you're out of the loop, but behind the times if you're tracking a new story.