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

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Post by bennyg »

tharris0101 wrote: post #75
bennyg wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 produc…

Thank you for your client. I also use it every day and have even contributed to it. I also never use the browser version on my phone anymore.

Thanks for your contribution, I'm glad you love it! I can't wait to get user management type stuff on there so I never have to open the browser version again.

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

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Post by tsycho »

bennyg wrote: post #61
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 produc…

Thank you so much for your reader AND especially for open sourcing your code (which I just found out from your comment). I use yours everyday and have occasionally found issues. Now with the code available, expect some pull requests :)

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

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Post by apierre »

mertdumenci wrote: post #69
apierre wrote: post #42

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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?

Just like hnsearch.com

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

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Post by crb »

crb wrote: post #47
lovskogen wrote: post #45

I just love http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ on the iPhone.

Public service announcement - now updated for iOS 7! I stopped using it when I upgraded (moved to hn.premii.com) as it felt... "jarring".

Edit: sorry, I was wrong; the new look I saw is actually the web browser look (tested on Chrome/desktop), and it still looks the same on iOS.

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

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Post by bitserf »

mertdumenci wrote: post #19
gigantor wrote: post #14

For a paid app, the lack of basic core features (i.e. to simply view comments) indicates a lot of work needs to be done. The existing free readers out there are a bit more capable. I ended up buying it since I'm still looking for a good HN reader out there that does all of: indenting comment threads, gives you the choice of browsing directly to the story without going through comments, and displaying key story inform…

Hey there, I'm the developer of the app. Firstly, thanks for buying the app! I wasn't personally expecting this much response, it was meant to be a read-only app, but I personally ended up missing comments as well. I understand your concern. I've good news though : we started the work on implementing comments :)

I just bought it, because I like where you are going with the design.

However, I would echo the need for comment support.

Check out how http://hn.premii.com/ does comments, I find that quite readable compared to news:yc.

The ability to log in and reply to comments would round out the use case that I used to use other apps for.

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

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Post by asselinpaul »

bennyg wrote: post #61
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 produc…

Cool that's awesome. Instapaper and/or Evernote support would be so great :)

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

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Post by thekingshorses »

gigantor wrote: post #14

For a paid app, the lack of basic core features (i.e. to simply view comments) indicates a lot of work needs to be done. The existing free readers out there are a bit more capable. I ended up buying it since I'm still looking for a good HN reader out there that does all of: indenting comment threads, gives you the choice of browsing directly to the story without going through comments, and displaying key story inform…

You can try my app here http://hn.premii.com/

Or app store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-yc/id713733435?l...

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

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Post by nayefc »

alariccole wrote: post #53
nayefc wrote: post #36

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The app will not preload every time new items come in. This is a common misconception about iOS 7. iOS 7 schedules these apps to run very infrequently to save battery. Some times it will take many hours to do a background refresh.

I've got a few apps built using this API, so I can chime in. It is definitely based on usage patterns--the more you use a particular app, the more often it will refresh. It's also certainly based on battery life at the time, but also the requirements of the app. With Pivit, since it's such a compact fetch, it'll happen more frequently than if you were, for instance, downloading photos. I check HN a lot, so for me, th…

Oh wow. It's cool that the OS is actually smart to optimise it that way.
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