Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?

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Post by clooth » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 7:43 PM UTC

elemeno wrote: post #17

mokash wrote: post #12

Looks nice but I don't think I would ever use something like this. 70% of the time I'm on a browser so I prefer to just come to the website. A good app for iPad would be good since tapping the tiny HN links on there is terrible.

There's a decent iPhone/iPad app called news:yc in the App Store already.

I use HackerNode, a brilliant app.

Re: Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?

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Post by atte » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 7:45 PM UTC

I would try it out. I'm also going to take this opportunity to make a shameless plug: answering the question, "Should I build this?" is precisely the goal of LaunchSky.com.

Re: Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?

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Post by holgersindbaek » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 7:46 PM UTC

clooth wrote: post #21

elemeno wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a decent iPhone/iPad app called news:yc in the App Store already.

I use HackerNode, a brilliant app.

Nice one. What do you like about that one? Seems like there's a lot of people who've downloaded it.

Re: Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?

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Post by holgersindbaek » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 7:47 PM UTC

atte wrote: post #22

I would try it out. I'm also going to take this opportunity to make a shameless plug: answering the question, "Should I build this?" is precisely the goal of LaunchSky.com.

Nice one. Just signed up. When are you launching? Looking forward to seeing how the platform will work.

Re: Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?

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Post by aauldy » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 7:47 PM UTC

elemeno wrote: post #17

mokash wrote: post #12

Looks nice but I don't think I would ever use something like this. 70% of the time I'm on a browser so I prefer to just come to the website. A good app for iPad would be good since tapping the tiny HN links on there is terrible.

There's a decent iPhone/iPad app called news:yc in the App Store already.

News:yc is a "decent" Hn app but it is not the perfect package, it lacks a lot in design fundamentals to create a great user experience.

Re: Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 7:49 PM UTC

clooth wrote: post #21

elemeno wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a decent iPhone/iPad app called news:yc in the App Store already.

I use HackerNode, a brilliant app.

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Re: Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?

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Post by tobiasbischoff » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 7:50 PM UTC

Sure, go on. The hardest part, designing it, is already done! Take a look at HNKit an news:yc https://github.com/Xuzz/newsyc for a head start.

Re: Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?

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Post by spangborn » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 7:50 PM UTC

elemeno wrote: post #17

mokash wrote: post #12

Looks nice but I don't think I would ever use something like this. 70% of the time I'm on a browser so I prefer to just come to the website. A good app for iPad would be good since tapping the tiny HN links on there is terrible.

There's a decent iPhone/iPad app called news:yc in the App Store already.

It's also open source, so you can help improve it (if that's your kind of thing)! https://github.com/Xuzz/newsyc

Re: Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?

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Post by maqr » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 7:52 PM UTC

jrajav wrote: post #10

If you do, please make it configurable to be a normal app as well as a menu bar app. I don't like menu bar apps that do not actually need to display some sort of persistent notification or control, and there may be others who feel the same way. Also, we generally shy from "yes" and "love it" type replies here; you can probably assume that 1 upvote = 1 yes.

> you can probably assume that 1 upvote = 1 yes

I upvoted the post, but I wouldn't use this if it was built.

I wouldn't use it because I prefer to interact the web with my web browser, which is always open, already on my desktop, and I enjoy polling HN to refresh it. Tab-management feels different to me than window-management, and I like my current way of organizing HN content from within my browser.

That said, I think it's a very cool design demo, and I think the author deserves feedback from HN.

Re: Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?

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Post by atte » Fri, Feb 15, 2013, 7:53 PM UTC

holgersindbaek wrote: post #24

atte wrote: post #22

I would try it out. I'm also going to take this opportunity to make a shameless plug: answering the question, "Should I build this?" is precisely the goal of LaunchSky.com.

Nice one. Just signed up. When are you launching? Looking forward to seeing how the platform will work.

Thanks! We plan to go live with our beta in 3-4 weeks, and we're already accepting pitches from our beta list. Email me at info@launchsky.com and I'll send you a beta invite.