Show HN: prldr.com, preloading the internet, my weekend project.
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#2prldr.com let's you create lists of links and preloads those lists for you.
It's got a very basic API, so you can use it to create and update your own lists.
I can think of multiple use cases for it. For example: load your twitter feed, scrape the links and display them, load all your rss feeds and display them, open up all links off a frontpage, to preload them.
What do you think? What kind of things must I add to make it useful for you? You might just not like it, because of the iframe technique used, just ignore it then, it really is a very hackerish tool and not meant to be more than that.
It currently works best in Chrome/Safari.
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#3prldr.com let's you create lists of links and preloads those lists for you. It's got a very basic API, so you can use it to create and update your own lists. I can think of multiple use cases for it. For example: load your twitter feed, scrape the links and display them, load all your rss feeds and display them, open up all links off a frontpage, to preload them. What do you think? What kind of things must I add to m…
It's a neat tool, but I don't know how often I'd use it. Pre-loading the info is neat for twitter, but the additional second or two it takes to copy/paste the info into your app seems like it'd be longer than just waiting for all the pages to load.
Middle-clicking and background opening them in new-tabs is easy enough for me.
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#4prldr.com let's you create lists of links and preloads those lists for you. It's got a very basic API, so you can use it to create and update your own lists. I can think of multiple use cases for it. For example: load your twitter feed, scrape the links and display them, load all your rss feeds and display them, open up all links off a frontpage, to preload them. What do you think? What kind of things must I add to m…
It's a neat tool, but I don't know how often I'd use it. Pre-loading the info is neat for twitter, but the additional second or two it takes to copy/paste the info into your app seems like it'd be longer than just waiting for all the pages to load. Middle-clicking and background opening them in new-tabs is easy enough for me.
There's an API to make the twitter link fetching possible. Was curious how people might use it, think there are lots of posibilities. API is very very simple, just 1 RESTful controller. Hope there will be someone who can come up with a cool application that makes use of it.
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#5Actually, I like it. API seems simple too. I have a forum where I like to go through every single new post; would be useful for this (right now my solution is middle clicking a ton of tiny "arrow representing updated posts" images).
Definitely needs a STOP button, though; stopping the current page using my browser didn't stop it from preloading.
Works fine in Opera, by the way.
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#6This would make a great alternative to an RSS reader. I've always had two problems with RSS:
1) Design has value. RSS readers strip the aesthetic qualities out of a web page and leave you with sterile text. Given the way some websites have been designed this is sometimes a good thing, but at other times I feel like I'm missing part of the experience.
2) Some sites only offer summary-only RSS feeds for various reasons.
Prldr could solve both of these problems really nicely. Consider expanding the project to allow uploading an OPML file, and tracking what users have read.
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#7This would make a great alternative to an RSS reader. I've always had two problems with RSS: 1) Design has value. RSS readers strip the aesthetic qualities out of a web page and leave you with sterile text. Given the way some websites have been designed this is sometimes a good thing, but at other times I feel like I'm missing part of the experience. 2) Some sites only offer summary-only RSS feeds for various reasons…
Exactly! The same problem I always had with RSS readers. Think I am going to implement this in a few days.
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#8Actually, I like it. API seems simple too. I have a forum where I like to go through every single new post; would be useful for this (right now my solution is middle clicking a ton of tiny "arrow representing updated posts" images). Definitely needs a STOP button, though; stopping the current page using my browser didn't stop it from preloading. Works fine in Opera, by the way.
You're right, will implement this.
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#9Warning about closing the tab seems excessive.
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