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Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by bennyg »

smackfu wrote: post #8

I'm still trying to figure out which Hacker News reader is a labor-of-love for the developer, as opposed to a coding exercise to see if they can make a few bucks which is abandoned quickly when the answer is "no".

Mine's definitely a labor of love - I use it daily, and hardly ever use the browser version unless I want to comment on something. I'm working on adding commenting/submitting/voting at the moment, and should have that done shortly. Personally, I think it's the most beautiful HN reader on the App Store, but I may be biased. It's free too.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id592893508?mt=8

EDIT: All of the production code is available on Github as well.

https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by bennyg »

jbrooksuk wrote: post #7

Since HN doesn't have a native API, it's real difficult to work on applications like this. Comments always seem to cause issues for apps, how do you handle them?

My app, https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id592893508?mt=8, does comments pretty darn well. Let me know what you think!

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by mrjaeger »

mokkol wrote: post #60
minihack wrote: post #43

Shameless plug XD My app MiniHack dose all. Nested comments, collapsible comment thread, login to upvote, reply to comment, one tap to open story or comments. Share to Pocket, Instapaper, Pinboard, Evernote, etc. Search hacker news, view the best of pages, ask, new, jobs. Instapaper and Readability mobilizer support, and more. And I am working on the new iOS 7 update right now, including UI redesign, a new slick dark…

I still have iOS 5.1 Will it work on my phone? For some reason I can't check before buying....

Does not seem to be the case:

"Compatibility: Requires iOS 6.0 or later."

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by alariccole »

ashishgandhi wrote: post #59
alariccole wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine is free, and freshly rebuilt for iOS using Text Kit and background refresh. It's free and no in-apps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pivit/id705715915

I like this one. I had never heard of you so I built Simple Hacker News ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simple-hacker-news-simple/id... ) last year. The big feature I want is I want a way to see what I've already read. I think this is the first app (other than mine) that I know does this. Haven't played around long but I like you can collapse and expand comments. Is there a way to default them all to be expanded? E…

Yours is my favorite, btw. I added an interesting feature to go beyond seeing what you've read--it indicates what you've already decided NOT to read.

I often find I choose to ignore certain posts but they often stick around so I reread the headlines. Pivit shows an orange indicator on brand new posts.

Re comments, I could add a feature to expand all if I get enough requests, but after some use I've found this to be optimal.

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by alariccole »

Camillo wrote: post #11

Now is the perfect time to launch this, because the other HN reader is having trouble displaying comments. But you need to show us how comments are handled in your app.

Comments aren't handled in this app. Try appsto.re/i6xC4GD -- best threading out there.

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by mertdumenci »

alariccole wrote: post #57
mertdumenci wrote: post #20

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Heyo, developer of the app here. http://hn.premii.com is absolutely mind blowing — it's lightweight, web based and super fast. The functionality of Hack Later is its speed and deep read later (currently Pocket only) integration. Comments are in the works, too! Also, I'm probably biased but I think it's pretty good looking :)

It does look nicer than most. For better or worse, though, I find the discussions to be more informative than most articles ;)

Thank you! I see. I agree with you. Definitely thinking about adding them ;)

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by mertdumenci »

dferlemann wrote: post #58
mertdumenci wrote: post #31

Hey Hacker News, developer of the app here. Thanks for the awesome response! The most requested feature is comments by far, totally understand it. Comments are a planned feature, and we intend to implement them as soon as we can. For now though the app is focused deeply on saving posts and links, so Hack Later still might be worth checking out, if you haven't already. Also, promo codes are fun. W4LEYM7ENYLN AL43JW7JW…

Thanks! Pocket integration is definite enough for me to convert. I will wait for the update on comment feature.

Thanks! We love Pocket :)

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by mertdumenci »

apierre wrote: post #42
mertdumenci wrote: post #21

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Hey, I noted your suggestions down. Thanks! Comments are definitely something planned.

I just downloaded it, I really like the look and feel. Please add a search feature as well and you have the perfect HN reader ;-)

Woo, thanks for the nice words! Search as in filtering the hot feed or site wide?

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by smackfu »

ashishgandhi wrote: post #59
alariccole wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine is free, and freshly rebuilt for iOS using Text Kit and background refresh. It's free and no in-apps: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pivit/id705715915

I like this one. I had never heard of you so I built Simple Hacker News ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simple-hacker-news-simple/id... ) last year. The big feature I want is I want a way to see what I've already read. I think this is the first app (other than mine) that I know does this. Haven't played around long but I like you can collapse and expand comments. Is there a way to default them all to be expanded? E…

This is pretty good. I wish there was a way to go directly to the comments on a post, but I don't know what UI would work for that.

A few other thoughts:

* Profile > Edit needs a cancel button. The only way to get out is to re-enter your username. Or maybe just make it go back to the old value if you enter blank.

* Long usernames tend to make the description line run off the screen and end with "...", which is a bit messy. Maybe a smarter truncation algorithm?

* Swiping left to right on a story seems to work inconsistently, but I'm not sure why.

* The comment view is just about perfect.

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