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

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Post by trizoza » Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 6:56 PM UTC

Show HN: I made a Hacker News for the automotive industry
autonews.io

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

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Post by trizoza » Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 7:02 PM UTC

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 delivers top 10 articles of the week every Monday morning.

Thank you in advance for any feedback! And happy to reply to any questions.

Peter

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

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Post by spyke112 » Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 7:36 PM UTC

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

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

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Post by tobr » Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 7:40 PM UTC

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…

Congratulations on shipping a thing! I have to say though, creating a place to submit links and invite or comment doesn’t mean it’s “a Hacker News for X” - what makes HN what it is is the community. Do you have any thoughts on how you could build a community around this project?

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

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Post by CoastalCoder » Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 7:41 PM UTC

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…

It seems like a neat idea, I hope it works!

I'm not sure I'd say it's "HN for ..." though. The automated(?) news aggregation and newsletter features seem pretty different from HN's Spartan style and entirely user-submitted content.

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

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Post by asimjalis » Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 7:43 PM UTC

Is there a list of HN for X somewhere?

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

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Post by trizoza » Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 7:44 PM UTC

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.

Thanks for the feedback. The main reason why I went for the combination of pictures and text was that many car enthusiast like the visual aspect of cars and therefore I kept the images as well.

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

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Post by spdionis » Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 7:47 PM UTC

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.

I saw a loading spinner and immediately went back.

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

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Post by trizoza » Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 7:48 PM UTC

CoastalCoder wrote: post #5

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…

It seems like a neat idea, I hope it works! I'm not sure I'd say it's "HN for ..." though. The automated(?) news aggregation and newsletter features seem pretty different from HN's Spartan style and entirely user-submitted content.

Hi, thx! The great aspect of HN, as you say and for me is also the community curation of relevant content. I've automated the inputs of the most popular automotive portals to get in some initial content. However the community - by clicking, sharing, commenting then decides which articles make it to the top. And of course they can submit their own articles - if it gets enough traction - I will consider switching of the popular.

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

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Post by Svip » Mon, Apr 19, 2021, 7:49 PM UTC

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…

If some of them are aggregated, while others are submitted, it is not clear to me to tell them apart, nor where an aggregated story came from. One just says "Submitted by Carol", but I cannot click on the name to learn anything more.

I also notice you hotlink all the images, you might want to contemplate re-hosting the images yourself, or abandon the images altogether.