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If you can add some smart filtering, e.g. by topic, source website etc, this would be even more valuable to me. Also ability to add to evernote / chrome bookmarks / pocket directly from the app Last but not least, the HN community is great, but I would design it to support other new sources, if I could get all my content in one location, with filtering, and web preview, I would be a bit happier. (why not google reade…
I think it's cool, but there are a couple issues: - You display the number '8' in your demo -- what does this represent? Stories are frequently added to HN - You provide a lot of functionality in the Menu tool (vote, comment), but you don't provide the actual content -- presumably this is opened in a browser? If you look at Spotlight, it provides a preview, though this is probably not readable enough - It seems to me…
The number eight signifies that there's 8 stories on the frontpage that you haven't read yet.
You also read the story itself in the browser (I don't wanna go back and forth from the browser). You can see that "functionality" if you click on "web view".
Thanks for the tip :-).
I love the look of the interface (web and comment view). That said, being a reader of HN, I like to use the "open web" as opposed to apps. I know a good percentage of the population here share my views. And while this may not necessarily describe you're app, it shows the sentiment: http://xkcd.com/1174/ But I'm confused when you call this a Mac app. Does that mean it would be for say, my macbook air, which I really h…
I know where you are coming from. I also like to use the open web, but it bugs me when I end up with opening 5-10 tabs each time I go into HN and have to navigate around between them and close them again. It is for the Mac and not for the iPhone/iPad (might come later). If you have no need for it, it's probably not for you. Hehe.
haha, too true. I'm a bit of a tabaholic I suppose. It's nothing to have 10-20 tabs in a window, with separate windows open for different stuff (HN window, work window, mail/FB window..) Heck, I'll stumble across tabs I meant to read last week or last month all the time...
I think one improvement you can make in this design is to make it easy to distinguish different types of posts. There are posts that are news, some are blog posts, some are showcases, others may just be job listings. Currently its not always so clear on HN.
I understand why people are tempted to build apps around HN...we're all builders, and we spend a lot of time here. But that doesn't mean it's a good business decision.
In general, 3rd party apps for reading a website are a bad idea. They compete directly against the content resource upon which they are totally dependent. See: the fate of Twitter apps.
However I do like (and make![1]) passive alert menubar apps. Make one of those for HN and I would use it (and submit pull requests). Alert for new thread replies, karma, etc.
[1] Shameless plug for Reddit Notifier, on the Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier-mac-os-x-men...
I briefly experimented with HN in a discreet RSS reader (Feeds App), and I won't let it on my computer outside the browser again as it was too distracting. I also don't keep any of the iPhone apps for HN I've tried around for that reason. Your designs look nice, though.
Thanks for the compliments. What made you think it was too distracting? Could you see the updates all the time?
I wouldn't use an alternative HN story reader on OS X. I like the cramped web interface too much. However I do like (and make![1]) passive alert menubar apps. Make one of those for HN and I would use it (and submit pull requests). Alert for new thread replies, karma, etc. [1] Shameless plug for Reddit Notifier, on the Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier-mac-os-x-men...
I think a great feature would be the ability to filter articles by points (i.e. only posts greater than 100 points, etc)
Nice idea. Do you often wish that you could do that on HN?