Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

#21

Post by timdorr » Thu, Feb 08, 2018, 5:19 PM UTC

There's a typo on the App Store listing screenshot: "Never loose the news you liked." Should be lose.

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

#22

Post by tnova » Thu, Feb 08, 2018, 5:19 PM UTC

Definitely fast and elegant. I like it very much! I thought at first, that it didn't show comment threads with indents, I almost missed the "X replies" label. I like it the way it is, however.

Just two things:

1. In the "Lists"-tab, it says "synched". I'm not a native speaker, but I guess that should be "synced"?

2. Maybe I just missed it, but: Is there any way to submit a comment from within the app?

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

#23

Post by tsucres » Thu, Feb 08, 2018, 5:21 PM UTC

miles wrote: post #10

Thanks for crafting and sharing this. On a 6s Plus running iOS 11, the login window text stops suddenly, despite there being plenty of room on the screen: " Your credentials are used exclusively to connect you to your HN account and aren't s " Also, would be nice to have a way to share HN links rather than just the article links (as the HN comments are often more interesting than the articles).

I'm going to look into this asap. And I'm taking note of your suggestion!

You're making me thinking I should probably setup a bug reporting system for long term maintenance. Thank you!

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

#24

Post by bleomycin » Thu, Feb 08, 2018, 5:23 PM UTC

Thank you for this it looks promising. Just a couple minor constructive criticism points that are personally keeping me on minihack.

1: I need the ability to swipe back from anywhere on the screen, i’m unable to reach all the way to the left edge most of the time.

2: The ability to up the density of posts/comments on the page. I really like seeing as much content as possible without a ton of dead space and scrolling.

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

#25

Post by vthallam » Thu, Feb 08, 2018, 5:26 PM UTC

10/10 for the landing page. your landing page to appstore conversion rate would be to the roof I guess. As other folks were asking, commenting and posting would complete the experience.

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

#26

Post by tsucres » Thu, Feb 08, 2018, 5:27 PM UTC

tnova wrote: post #22

Definitely fast and elegant. I like it very much! I thought at first, that it didn't show comment threads with indents, I almost missed the "X replies" label. I like it the way it is, however. Just two things: 1. In the "Lists"-tab, it says "synched". I'm not a native speaker, but I guess that should be "synced"? 2. Maybe I just missed it, but: Is there any way to submit a comment from within the app?

1. I guess? I'm not a native speaker either. I maybe just made up a new abbreviation for "synchronised"?

2. Not currently. I'm planning on adding this in the next few weeks

Thank you for your feedback! I'm glad you like it!

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

#27

Post by rotred » Thu, Feb 08, 2018, 5:28 PM UTC

adityar wrote: post #9

Spelling - developer

There seems to be several spelling errors. I glanced over the page and also found these:

formated - formatted loose - lose (in the bottom images)

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

#28

Post by timmonsjg » Thu, Feb 08, 2018, 5:30 PM UTC

timdorr wrote: post #21

There's a typo on the App Store listing screenshot: "Never loose the news you liked." Should be lose .

Judging by this and the word 'customisable', I'd wager the author is outside the US where these spellings are a bit common.

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

#29

Post by Watabou » Thu, Feb 08, 2018, 5:31 PM UTC

I've been using MiniHack as my HN app, and while it has its issues (most frustratingly, the popup that notifies me that I've just upvoted/downvoted a comment), it's the most feature rich HN client I've seen yet, so it's a bit hard for me to switch to this just yet.

That said, I tried it out and here's my feedback for HNbuddy:

- This looks really nice, and loads comments super fast for me!

- An iPad version of HNBuddy would be nice. I'd be willing to pay for that, maybe as an IAP?

- Support for commenting, new posts, currently it's more of a "reader", which may be the intention, not sure.

- No ability to downvote? I can downvote in MiniHack and the regular website but not in HNBuddy

- A lighter Darker theme

Re: Show HN: HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS

#30

Post by pmilla1606 » Thu, Feb 08, 2018, 5:34 PM UTC

Does this download/preload all comments? This is one feature I can't find anywhere except for HN Zero[0].

When HN Zero loads the list of stories, it pulls all comment threads down too. That way I can read the comments when I'm in the subway.

HN Zero is great but it's a bit dated at this point and lacks some other features that I've learned to live without (no copy/paste from comments, no sharing of links, no iPhone X support).

In any case, I'll try this out. Congrats on shipping!

[0]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-zero/id764890985...