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Show HN: prldr.com, preloading the internet, my weekend project.

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Re: Show HN: prldr.com, preloading the internet, my weekend project.

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It's a neat tool, but I don't know how often I'd use it. Pre-loading the info is neat for twitter, but the additional second or two it takes to copy/paste the info into your app seems like it'd be longer than just waiting for all the pages to load. Middle-clicking and background opening them in new-tabs is easy enough for me.

There's an API to make the twitter link fetching possible. Was curious how people might use it, think there are lots of posibilities. API is very very simple, just 1 RESTful controller. Hope there will be someone who can come up with a cool application that makes use of it. http://prldr.com/pages/api.html

Your app reminds me of http://www.flipboard.com/ It's a very cool idea to be sure. I wish there were Flipboard for the rest of us. Maybe that could be an interesting alley to explore.

For inspiration, http://www.jinni.com/ has nice picture sorting.

Re: Show HN: prldr.com, preloading the internet, my weekend project.

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This would make a great alternative to an RSS reader. I've always had two problems with RSS: 1) Design has value. RSS readers strip the aesthetic qualities out of a web page and leave you with sterile text. Given the way some websites have been designed this is sometimes a good thing, but at other times I feel like I'm missing part of the experience. 2) Some sites only offer summary-only RSS feeds for various reasons…

Exactly! The same problem I always had with RSS readers. Think I am going to implement this in a few days.

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Re: Show HN: prldr.com, preloading the internet, my weekend project.

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I like this. I generally load links in background tabs while reading through a page, but this could be extended to report on browsing and even suggest links.

The "are you sure you want to leave" alert makes me want to go away and stay away--it is not the helpful "close all open tabs?" from closing FireFox.

Have you considered using the right sidebar instead? Consider having a clean left-leading edge for readability.

Edit: Not to put too fine a point on, but the preload urls show up as visited anchor links (which I may not have read) when I go back to HN. Sometimes bug fixes can suggest a radically new way forward.

Re: Show HN: prldr.com, preloading the internet, my weekend project.

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This would make a great alternative to an RSS reader. I've always had two problems with RSS: 1) Design has value. RSS readers strip the aesthetic qualities out of a web page and leave you with sterile text. Given the way some websites have been designed this is sometimes a good thing, but at other times I feel like I'm missing part of the experience. 2) Some sites only offer summary-only RSS feeds for various reasons…

Exactly! The same problem I always had with RSS readers. Think I am going to implement this in a few days.

done, read about it here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646290
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