This is awesome: actually taking the time to poll your intended customers to see whether it's even worth building the app, rather than building first and finding out later.
Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?
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#72I will give you a different angle. Do you want to develop it for fun/fame/experience or for profit? If the former you should do it.
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#73You asked: in my opinion no. The market has already largely abandoned RSS readers and I don't see single site and magazine apps having a fighting chance.
What about general utility apps, other than RSS readers?
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#75What tool did you use to design this?
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#76Holger, your design has the same issue as every other HN app - it trades condensed view for spacing and typography. The brilliance of HN's native design is an ability to see 20-30 stories per screenful. This is a must have. Otherwise it turns into Designer News [1] :) Secondly, an app that is merely an alternative view of HN webpage is not terribly interesting. It should really offer something else. For example, an a…
I find it kind of amusing that Hacker News is better designed than Designer News.
I'd argue that "better designed" is subjective here. Hacker News is optimised for high content density. Designer News has lower content density, but there's more space between posts (and visual signposts in the form of "badges") which makes the front-page easier to scan. I appreciate both approaches.
Re: Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?
#77What tool did you use to design this?
Photoshop.
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#78Tangent: scrolling is horrible on my gnexus. I have no idea where I am on the site, and every time I scroll up or down I find myself lost somewhere else.
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#79You designed an iOS app, not a Mac app. That it happens to live in the menubar doesn't actually mean very much ;)
Re: Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?
#80Holger, your design has the same issue as every other HN app - it trades condensed view for spacing and typography. The brilliance of HN's native design is an ability to see 20-30 stories per screenful. This is a must have. Otherwise it turns into Designer News [1] :) Secondly, an app that is merely an alternative view of HN webpage is not terribly interesting. It should really offer something else. For example, an a…
So does anyone happen to have an invite code for designer news?