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

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Post by travoc »

shoto_io wrote: post #58
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...

Does the back button in the iOS app eventually float off the screen and become unusable? If so, I’m in.

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

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Post by the_duke »

trizoza wrote: post #2

Hi all, I made this project to help myself stay up to date with automotive industry because I love cars and anything related to them. It gathers the latest automotive news from more than 20 auto portals. Allows users to submit articles, comment, and upvote. I got quite literally inspired by HN and was mindblown why such a thing does not exist for automotive industry. Also users can subscribe to a newsletter that deli…

All the top stories seem very consumer oriented, not for professionals in the industry.

From a cursory glance it seems more like a "car enthusiast" news site rather than a place for industry discussion.

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

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

travoc wrote: post #71
shoto_io wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Does the back button in the iOS app eventually float off the screen and become unusable? If so, I’m in.

Coming from Android... You guys still have back buttons? I just swipe from the edge of my screen to go forward/back from anywhere

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

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Post by ibraheemdev »

weird-eye-issue wrote: post #74
travoc wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does the back button in the iOS app eventually float off the screen and become unusable? If so, I’m in.

Coming from Android... You guys still have back buttons? I just swipe from the edge of my screen to go forward/back from anywhere

I think iOS has the forward/back gestures too.

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

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Post by ALittleLight »

Judgmentality wrote: post #70
p1necone wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure why being a designer is necessary to criticize UX, unless it's UX intended for designers. You don't only read restaurant reviews from restaurant owners, or movie reviews from filmmakers, or car reviews from automotive engineers do you?

For the same reasons being a coder isn't necessary to criticize code. Anybody can do it, but chances are your opinions are a lot less informed than you realize.

It depends. If you don't know how to code and you're commenting on language or framework choice (e.g. "it's electron therefore bad") or something like that, then your opinion is probably invalid. On the other hand, if you're comment is something like "This app doesn't work like I want" then it really doesn't matter if you have the slightest idea how to implement what you want.

Likewise, a non-designer offering opinions on design philosophy or alternate styles is probably pretty useless. A non-designer saying the thing is awkward/ugly/confusing/whatever is informative though.

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

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Post by mcchew »

I work at an automotive-related tech firm so in principle this looks great and useful. I do think the design could be simpler, more like old reddit or HN, to maximize the amount of information presented to the user. There also appears to be a moderation problem, especially on the current top post, so I can't really share it with colleagues yet ;)
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