Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

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Post by goranmoomin » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 12:20 AM UTC

Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client
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Re: Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

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Post by c17r » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 10:01 PM UTC

On my "projects to do when I have lots more free time" list is to make a Hacker News NNTP server. Read only, of course. Few details to work out (edits, polls, making comments, etc) but I think it could work. It would solve the "what's new in this thread" problem.

Re: Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

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Post by floss_silicate » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 10:01 PM UTC

“Mac-er News”, surely?

Re: Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

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Post by leecb » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 10:02 PM UTC

Very happy to see a "mac-assed" app!

My only complaint so far is that I can only see about 12 items in the app on one screen, vs the whole front page in a browser. Adds a lot more scrolling.

Re: Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

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Post by geoah » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 10:05 PM UTC

Thanks for sharing this. It looks really great and pretty minimal which I personally love. The main thing I'm missing from this would be read/unread indicators on stories.

A roadmap of planned features would be nice or some tickets that other people could help with.

I'm not sure how much time you plan on spending this, but I'd personally probably be willing to buy a version of this if it was able to do notifications on replies and similar features hn lurkers might want. Other interesting paid features could be read-later list, favourites, cross device syncing of read indicators and lists, etc. If you don't wanna deal with paid features maybe consider enabling the github sponsor feature so people could optionally pitch-in.

Re: Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

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Post by themodelplumber » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 10:08 PM UTC

floss_silicate wrote: post #3

“Mac-er News”, surely?

HrNReader 2000

Re: Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

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Post by Jerry2 » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 10:08 PM UTC

Excellent work! I really like the UI. I've been using some iOS app for HN because the UI offers easy and quick swipe-based upvotes and bookmarking. But your UI is more reminiscent of a mail app and that's better suited for a desktop app. So kudos!

Re: Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

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Post by smoldesu » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 10:15 PM UTC

I feel like calling it "Hacker News" is a bit of a misnomer at this point, right? /s

Re: Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

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Post by przemub » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 10:19 PM UTC

I like that you kept at it for 1.5 year - it is inspiring me to pick up some projects I've half-started.

Re: Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client

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Post by SavantIdiot » Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 10:19 PM UTC

This raises a question I've always wondered:

How many of you prefer to run a native app rather than the web app?

Personally I hate installing things on my desktop if there is a website because it is just another thing I have to manage. (Even more so because I have multiple Windows, Mac and Linux boxes I'm bouncing around between during the day and rather just have sync'd Firefox bookmarks than have to install s/w on each box.)

Am I in the minority, majority, both, neither?