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Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App

#1

Post by allending » Thu, May 14, 2015, 4:58 PM UTC

Show HN: Akepa – Our HN App
snappymob.com

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#2

Post by allending » Thu, May 14, 2015, 5:14 PM UTC

Maker here. Just a fun note. One of the hardest parts about making the app was getting enough karma so we could test downvoting.

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#3

Post by jfg » Thu, May 14, 2015, 5:14 PM UTC

Just downloaded, seems really polished and looks beautiful.

I'm currently a user of http://hn.premii.com, I'd make the switch to your app if you can get the 'yesterday's best' page, and an option to have readability mode on by default.

Very promising though, out of interest how long have you spent on the project?

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#4

Post by ljk » Thu, May 14, 2015, 5:24 PM UTC

looks like the icon is morse code for "akepa"

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Post by taylorling » Thu, May 14, 2015, 5:25 PM UTC

jfg wrote: post #3

Just downloaded, seems really polished and looks beautiful. I'm currently a user of http://hn.premii.com , I'd make the switch to your app if you can get the 'yesterday's best' page, and an option to have readability mode on by default. Very promising though, out of interest how long have you spent on the project?

Hey,

Akepa designer here. Thanks a lot! We did put in quite some effort to ensure the 1.0 is polished enough to give the best reading experience that we wanted to deliver - it seems that we are able to put smile on some faces, which is pretty awesome!

Thanks for the suggestion - we will put the 'yesterday's best' page in the feature request list for prioritisation (I can assure you there are tons of interesting features planned for the next few releases). As for readability mode by default, sure thing! That's something we wanted to do but we decided to leave it out from our MVP, so yeah, upcoming release should have it.

We are a team of 5, and we roughly spent about 4 months for project planning, design and development.

Don't hesitate to let us know if you have some idea how we can further improve the HN experience :)

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Post by toomuchtodo » Thu, May 14, 2015, 5:30 PM UTC

Just attempted to go Pro ($5? Of course! Quality work should be rewarded). As soon as the purchase was complete, the app said it couldn't verify the purchase and to try again at a later time.

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Post by guilamu » Thu, May 14, 2015, 5:36 PM UTC

Android?

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#8

Post by huangc10 » Thu, May 14, 2015, 5:38 PM UTC

Looks really clean, beautiful, well thought out and designed. Keep up the good work!

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#9

Post by minimaxir » Thu, May 14, 2015, 5:38 PM UTC

Since the official API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API) does not support authentication, how are you collecting and storing auth credentials for login/posting?

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#10

Post by spiffyman » Thu, May 14, 2015, 5:39 PM UTC

Looks great. One thing I loved about HackerNode was the fact that I could send an article to Chrome. (Maybe I'm blind, but I can't figure out how to add Chrome to the iOS 8 activities sheet.) The in-app browser is nice, but this is an important feature for history-diving purposes. I'm sure lots of your target market don't use Safari on the desktop. Any plans to support it?