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Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

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Post by trizoza »

esturk wrote: post #43

What's are you doing differently versus r/cars over at reddit which already has over 2.3 million subs in their community?

There definitely is an overlap, big one. I built it for this reason: I am a automotive engineer. I come to work in the morning, make myself a coffee and open autonews.io, click on 2-3 articles that interest me, read them, done with my coffee, ready to work, I'm up to date with latest news in industry - so maybe the combination of news feed plus community submitted articles is different. Hope it is!

Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

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Post by trizoza »

capableweb wrote: post #37
andrewstuart wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed - don't get fancy - you're on a good idea with the auto focus - just clone the HN look and feel, choose a different color palette. I wonder if part of the appeal of HN is it has no images?

You don't even have to write your own software, you can just run HN ("news") directly for your niche! http://arclanguage.org/install

All that work... :)

Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

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Post by jhgb »

trizoza wrote: post #48
awestroke wrote: post #25

But did you write it in a shitty homemade lisp?

Hehehe, no, it's Next.js/React/TypeScript - why lisp? :D

Because then it's not proper "Hacker News for X", of course! /jk

(Although it has to be said that HN's rejection of complexity -- the exact opposite of your approach of embracing it with all those javascripty thingies -- does have something going for it.)

Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

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Post by trizoza »

jhgb wrote: post #54
trizoza wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hehehe, no, it's Next.js/React/TypeScript - why lisp? :D

Because then it's not proper "Hacker News for X", of course! /jk (Although it has to be said that HN's rejection of complexity -- the exact opposite of your approach of embracing it with all those javascripty thingies -- does have something going for it.)

Got you! ;) HN for X in terms of functionality, def not in terms of lightweight execution :)

Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

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Post by grawprog »

trizoza wrote: post #28
grawprog wrote: post #23

Not a big fan of the use of space compared to hn. On hn on mobile I can clearly see the headlines for 13 stories, on the automotive one, I get 6, meaning i have to scroll a whole page just to see as many stories as I can at a glance on hn. With one quick scroll, i can see an entire hn page, to get to the bottom of autonews I had to scroll 5 times and scroll past an annoying subscribe bar placed in the middle. I don't…

Thanks, I was actually exactly thinking the same when I was comparing autonews.io vs HN. But I would have to compromise the images if I wanted to make it more concise, and I've decided not to.

I don't think the images are a problem. Like the other commenter said i think it's the use of whitespace. The story feed seems quite narrow compared to hn. There's lots of deadspace to either side. I think you could increase the usage of space while not compromising on the images.

Please too, put the subscribe thing at the bottom of the page, not the middle. That just reminded me of a midpage banner add. It disrupted the reading flow very obviously.

It's a terrible spot for it.

Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

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Post by shoto_io »

grawprog wrote: post #23

Not a big fan of the use of space compared to hn. On hn on mobile I can clearly see the headlines for 13 stories, on the automotive one, I get 6, meaning i have to scroll a whole page just to see as many stories as I can at a glance on hn. With one quick scroll, i can see an entire hn page, to get to the bottom of autonews I had to scroll 5 times and scroll past an annoying subscribe bar placed in the middle. I don't…

Maybe I am getting old, but if I see "I made HN for X" I am expecting to see the exact design of HN...

Re: Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry

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Post by elihu »

frozencell wrote: post #34
spyke112 wrote: post #3

One of the things HN gets right is in my opinion the classic basic design. I wish you would have recreated that.

What is the classic design of automotive? That’s the question to ask IMO. Paul Graham wrote about automobile design in an essay.

He made a remark about SUVs when talking about programming languages; was that what you're referring to or was there something else?

http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html

> Some kinds of waste really are disgusting. SUVs, for example, would arguably be gross even if they ran on a fuel which would never run out and generated no pollution. SUVs are gross because they're the solution to a gross problem. (How to make minivans look more masculine.) But not all waste is bad. Now that we have the infrastructure to support it, counting the minutes of your long-distance calls starts to seem niggling. If you have the resources, it's more elegant to think of all phone calls as one kind of thing, no matter where the other person is. > > There's good waste, and bad waste. I'm interested in good waste-- the kind where, by spending more, we can get simpler designs. How will we take advantage of the opportunities to waste cycles that we'll get from new, faster hardware?

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