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Re: Useful apps for Hacker News

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Post by thisisblurry »

I created a fork of the Hacker News Chrome extension back in October to add Instapaper support for the articles (https://github.com/johnmichel/hacker-news-for-chrome).

I'm not trying to steal any thunder from the original extension. Adam (the developer of the original version) accepted my pull request almost immediately after I sent it. I'm only posting this because it looks like the one in the Chrome Web Store isn't the most up-to-date version with Instapaper support.

Re: Useful apps for Hacker News

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Post by tsycho »

wvl wrote: post #7
bemmu wrote: post #2

MetaExtension is my current project. I started this project after noticing how little usage most Chrome extensions get, even though many of them are quite useful. Most decent Chrome extensions have just some thousands of users, even though there are around 100 million Chrome users. The idea is to have a directory of apps that go well with certain websites, exposed through a Chrome extension that then informs users if…

Is this manually curated, or are you querying extension permissions from the app store? I've got an extension that combines the collapsible threads with the ability to highlight new comments. However, I never did put it in the chrome extension directory. It's available here: http://hckrnews.com/about.html

I use wvl's extension (hckr news), and it's awesome, especially the "new comments highlighting" feature.

Re: Useful apps for Hacker News

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Post by bryanlarsen »

notintokyo wrote: post #9
wvl wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this manually curated, or are you querying extension permissions from the app store? I've got an extension that combines the collapsible threads with the ability to highlight new comments. However, I never did put it in the chrome extension directory. It's available here: http://hckrnews.com/about.html

Manually curating now, I look at a list where new submissions arrive and click accept / deny after checking that the submission seems to work and isn't of lower quality than some submission from before. I think having several apps that do exactly the same thing isn't very beneficial.

I think having several apps that do the same thing is very beneficial. Competition from competitors is probably the biggest reason why apps improve.

Re: Useful apps for Hacker News

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Post by crocowhile »

simias wrote: post #4

I use HNdroid from time to time, it's very slow on big comment threads and doesn't format everything properly. I think I read it's because there's no HN API so it just parses the HTML. Are there any plans to provide such an API? It would make it much easier to... hack on top of the website.

I don't kno HNdroid but there are other three android apps. http://market.android.com/search?q=hackernews

Re: Useful apps for Hacker News

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Post by spatulon »

Inevitably, hackers visit a site aimed at hackers and want to start building their own stuff to tweak it to their needs. How many of these tools/apps/sites really add any value, though? For the most part the site is already good enough. SearchYC is arguably the only truly necessary addition.

It's not that there's anything egregiously wrong about that "HN for Honeycomb" app you're writing, but all the time you spend on that is time you're not spending on something that solves a real customer's needs. More time spent on that means: more money for you, more interesting posts on HN about your startup, and fewer meta-threads on the front page.

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