Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by mertdumenci » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 3:01 PM UTC

Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS
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Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by Osmium » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 3:28 PM UTC

Looks nice from what I can see but £1.49 is too much to buy just to try it out (at least for me).

The major pain point with the current viewer I use is difficult-to-read comment threads. I can't see any screenshots of comment threads in your app. Are they collapsible? Is the hierarchy clear?

Can you post comments yourself in-app? I remember seeing another app at the same price point that did that.

Good luck anyway!

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by publicfig » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 3:33 PM UTC

I can't really figure out the functionality of this, so I'm not going to buy it to try it out. If you can't comment on it, then it's worth checking out http://hn.premii.com/ . It's a web, based app, but if you save it to your home screen it removes the Safari chrome and looks and works as a standalone app. You can look at its source here: https://github.com/premii/hn

If you can comment on this, it should be interesting. I really wish you showed more of the functionality of the app though.

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by bradleyg_ » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 3:36 PM UTC

Can you view comments with this app?

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by photoGrant » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 3:37 PM UTC

I like it, unfortunately it's a little buggy scrolling up and down the feed. It's a shame it cost me a couple bucks to find that out but whatever I can do to support improvements!

Looks great!!

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by ltcoleman » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 3:39 PM UTC

it does not display comments. I bought it because i enjoyed the look, but looks like until they get comments, i doubt many will install.

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by jbrooksuk » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 3:39 PM UTC

Since HN doesn't have a native API, it's real difficult to work on applications like this. Comments always seem to cause issues for apps, how do you handle them?

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by smackfu » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 3:39 PM UTC

I'm still trying to figure out which Hacker News reader is a labor-of-love for the developer, as opposed to a coding exercise to see if they can make a few bucks which is abandoned quickly when the answer is "no".

Re: Show HN: Dead simple Hacker News reader for iOS

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Post by NathanKP » Thu, Oct 03, 2013, 3:41 PM UTC

ltcoleman wrote: post #6

it does not display comments. I bought it because i enjoyed the look, but looks like until they get comments, i doubt many will install.

Yeah I'm in the market for a new Hacker News reader because the one I was using before has broken since I installed IOS7 and no longer shows the full text of comments.