Looks cool! Reminds me of (YCs) Station with a focus on online communities. Hint: Says "0 beta users signed up since August 1st 2019" in the bottom left corner. Maybe refresh the cache?
Show HN: Yack – Community Browser for Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube and More
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#12This looks nice but "Many Communities, one UI" just doesn't work for me. The way I use hacker news is different than the way I use youtube. And it is different than how I use reddit.
How do you use HN and Reddit that makes them so dissimilar? From a UI standpoint, not a 'quality of the discussions' standpoint.
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#13Sweet! Pretty good idea.
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#14Really like the concept--I think you're on to something in creating a unified UI for all these similar services.
But..getting into the beta was a giant PITA.
1. Enter email
2. Check email
3. Download client
4. Go back to email, copy code
5. Paste code
6. Go back to email, click sign in link
7. Browser asks if it's ok to open Yack
8. Create profile in Yack (at this point I bounced)
Honestly, just let me download the beta directly, open it and have it Just Work. This is a new product and people will be skeptical. Friction is therefore your enemy.
Would it be possible to skip profile creation as well?
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#15I can see some issues with trying to unify disparate communities / features for power users, but I would love a streamlined HN / Reddit comment browser with better nesting that sits on my Mac desktop. Signed up for the beta.
EDIT: Oof, not so interesting in making a profile for it, though.
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#16> Do more with less clutter, fewer clicks, less scroll, fewer tabs, fewer pages, fewer buttons, fewer ads, less mess...
Looks very promising if it is really a native desktop app, but then if it is electron, then that is the equivalent to having a fixed set of Chrome tabs open with an ad-blocker on.
I hope when you say 'native' that this app actually is native, otherwise it will be yet another bloated app to add to my collection of electron apps on my MacBook.
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#17> If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then.
> Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.
Read the “Show HN” rules please: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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#18I can see some issues with trying to unify disparate communities / features for power users, but I would love a streamlined HN / Reddit comment browser with better nesting that sits on my Mac desktop. Signed up for the beta. EDIT: Oof, not so interesting in making a profile for it, though.
Will consider making the Yack profile optional. For the beta version it was necessary because the app has a "Feedback" community, which is built on top of Discourse - This is where users provide feedback and report bugs.
Creating Yack profile automatically creates an account on Yack's Discourse instance but it never associates plugin accounts (hacker news, reddit, etc) with your Yack profile.
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#19> If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then. > Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs. Read the “Show HN” rules please: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Hey, thanks for the heads up. The app is ready and can be downloaded and unlocked via the landing page. It's beta at the moment but is very stable based on the feedback we've received from over 1.5k beta testers.
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#20Looks cool! Reminds me of (YCs) Station with a focus on online communities. Hint: Says "0 beta users signed up since August 1st 2019" in the bottom left corner. Maybe refresh the cache?
thanks for the feedback. Yep, currently looking into the issue. There're over 1.5k beta testers so far.
Didn't know Station was from YC. Yack is a native app with a custom UI/UX built specifically for browsing online communities. As far as I remember, Station was another wrapper that points to actual websites, no?