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Show HN: Hackernews for Mac
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#2I wrote Hackernews for Mac. Feel free to ask me questions :)
EDIT: Quick shout out to Grant Paul who built the fantastic newsyc app for iOS (http://newsyc.me) which this is partly based on and inspired from.
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#3My first impression based on theme - good job. Now I'm going to download it.
EDIT: Just downloaded. Looking.
When will you add login sessions?
Will you incorporate no-procast?
Is there any way you can incorporate a notification system to show up in the upper right hand corner, or even in the side panel on Mountain Lion? I know some of the mobile apps have thread notifications.
EDIT 2: It would be great if you added poll functionality for the 300+ people. And buttons for New and Leaderboards, etc. I'm saying all of this because I'd use this if you made it a full featured app.
I'd probably pay between $0.99 - $2.99 for an app with everything I just said above. Especially if you could put in different widgets that have been developed by other people (best time to submit, notifications, stats, etc.)
Re: Show HN: Hackernews for Mac
#4I wrote Hackernews for Mac. Feel free to ask me questions :) EDIT: Quick shout out to Grant Paul who built the fantastic newsyc app for iOS ( http://newsyc.me ) which this is partly based on and inspired from.
It seems to require 10.8 and above! Haven't gotten around to updating my OS. Regardless, just looking at the screen shot I really like the color scheme and design. If you don't mind, here is a shameless link to a simple Chrome Extension for Hacker News I made: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/programming-news/g...
Re: Show HN: Hackernews for Mac
#5I wrote Hackernews for Mac. Feel free to ask me questions :) EDIT: Quick shout out to Grant Paul who built the fantastic newsyc app for iOS ( http://newsyc.me ) which this is partly based on and inspired from.
I like the app a lot. I wrote down a bunch of my basic questions I had after using the app in a top-level comment.
Suffice to say, I'm keeping it. I'll keep the praise to this comment and the questions to the other ;). I like how simple it is and true to the theme.
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#6My first impression based on theme - good job. Now I'm going to download it. EDIT: Just downloaded. Looking. When will you add login sessions? Will you incorporate no-procast? Is there any way you can incorporate a notification system to show up in the upper right hand corner, or even in the side panel on Mountain Lion? I know some of the mobile apps have thread notifications. EDIT 2: It would be great if you added p…
Thanks for the feedback! Working on threaded comments, voting, flagging and sessions now. Not sure when I'll be done by please check back weekly for updates :)
Never heard of no-procast. Ill check it out. Not sure what todo for the auto-polling just yet. I can imagine that would be annoying as hell for a lot of people so I'd make it an optional preference.
Yeah, I was thinking about pricing it around that point. Another thought I've had here is to offer it for free and have an in app purchase for extras like instapaper etc.
Re: Show HN: Hackernews for Mac
#7I wrote Hackernews for Mac. Feel free to ask me questions :) EDIT: Quick shout out to Grant Paul who built the fantastic newsyc app for iOS ( http://newsyc.me ) which this is partly based on and inspired from.
It seems to require 10.8 and above! Haven't gotten around to updating my OS. Regardless, just looking at the screen shot I really like the color scheme and design. If you don't mind, here is a shameless link to a simple Chrome Extension for Hacker News I made: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/programming-news/g...
It uses NSSharingService to provide sharing via Twitter/Facebook/iMessage/etc which is a 10.8 API. I could provide you a binary without those bits for you to try - ping me at james.w.dumay@gmail.com
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#8I wrote Hackernews for Mac. Feel free to ask me questions :) EDIT: Quick shout out to Grant Paul who built the fantastic newsyc app for iOS ( http://newsyc.me ) which this is partly based on and inspired from.
Why does it not support anything lower than Mountain Lion?
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#9Love it. Obviously lots of work to be done, but I really like the idea of Hacker News as an app instead of a URL I can open on a whim.
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#10Looks great! I will definitely use it in the future, and would pay for it. One thing I noticed though is that when you close the window by hitting the red circle in the top left, the app stays in the icon try but clicking the still active icon does not reopen the window.