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URI Show HN: HackerNewt â Breadth-first exploring HN client for iOS
goodburb wrote 3 hours 31 min ago:
Feature suggestion, a persistent saved word filter for stories,
especially on days when the frontpage is mostly politics or AI.
Currently using [1] for daily usage and [2] for advanced search.
URI [1]: https://isit.mooo.com
URI [2]: http://hnapp.com
krishnasangeeth wrote 3 hours 27 min ago:
You can checkout h for hacker news. It has a search API over algolia.
krishnasangeeth wrote 3 hours 35 min ago:
Congrats on the launch.
I built a similar app with search functionality and bookmarking some
time back [1] This was primarily built as a way to learn building apps.
I went for a style similar to the website and tapping the comment
closes the parent comment.
URI [1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/h-for-hacker-news/id6744145932
vrighter wrote 4 hours 57 min ago:
i saw the video, and it seems really similar to just a tree view with
all the children collapsed by default. How is this different?
eviks wrote 7 hours 44 min ago:
Nice to see innovating trying to solve the common threaded comment
design flaw (not a big fan of the forced vertical repositioning on
stack un-/grouping as even with animations it slightly breaks your
visual fixation)!
Though for the width issue there is a simpler solution for most of the
cases (except for very deep trees) - just make the margin smaller.
In the product video there are two relatively big margins - left of the
comment box and left of text within the box. But this is pure waste,
you don't need so much whitespace to signal text hierarchy.
vinnski wrote 12 hours 38 min ago:
Nicely done - thanks for making it. Not sure if Iâll ever get used to
swipe actions between boards though⦠other than that I appreciate its
simplicity. The haptics slider is a nice touch too
xp84 wrote 16 hours 36 min ago:
I had already downloaded a previous version of this app, so I was happy
to see that it was already on my phone. With Octal having an issue
recently, it's nice to try out this alternative.
We're very fortunate that so many hackers are intrinsically motivated
to make excellent (even free) apps for this purpose, since we like
hanging out here!
mittermayr wrote 17 hours 37 min ago:
Opened it up, first thing I do is set it to dark because every other HN
app runs on dark â immediately prompts me to upgrade and pay. Sorry,
but making money by not being annoying is such an old-school way to try
and make a buck. Totally understand it can't be free, but then let
people pay for things that make your app stand out â not the ability
to "let the dark mode toggle stay put", I mean...
xp84 wrote 16 hours 29 min ago:
The app's premium unlock appears to be a $6 one-time purchase. Given
that it's not a consequential life decision, the way a subscription
can sometimes be, I would rather normalize paying for software that
is well-made and lovingly maintained instead of having everything be
free but it falls into disrepair after some big Apple update because
it's too hard to justify working on it anymore.
I have a harder time with software that I have to sign up for a
"trial" of a $20 monthly subscription before I can really experience
what it's like to use it. With this app, you can see exactly how it
works during the daytime at least, and what settings you'd be able to
use once you pay, and no trial hanging over your head.
ForceBru wrote 17 hours 19 min ago:
What could make such an app "stand out"?
zamadatix wrote 16 hours 58 min ago:
The app already does a good job of standing out with its main
premise and I doubt there are enough other stand out features to
add for the niche. The problem really lies in the monetization
focusing on the table stakes features up front instead of the stand
out features after a while.
tartoran wrote 17 hours 4 min ago:
Should be free first of all, HN is free after all and with it's old
tech it is still working well and is also friction free. I've seen
plenty of show HN:HN and most don't have traction because the
original is just too good. It's probably one reason why it
withstood the test of time and why we still have a community here.
dmd wrote 4 hours 2 min ago:
âWalking is free, therefore bike shops should give away bikes
for free.â
zamadatix wrote 16 hours 54 min ago:
I think it's less "too good" and more "$0 but been around 18
years so why bother with any alternative for >=$0 which has been
around for 2 months. Also, why do I trust you again?". I.e. "not
bad enough".
al_borland wrote 11 hours 47 min ago:
Or itâs that every platform like this that does a major
upgrade to the UI is awful. They are almost always driven by
people looking to increase revenue at the expense of the user
experience. The users hate it and leave in mass. Having seen
this pattern time and time again, I donât know why sites keep
doing it, other than then obvious âinvestor pressure.â
There seems to be an inverse relationship between the spend on
development and user experience.
afro88 wrote 18 hours 0 min ago:
This is great. Thanks for creating it! Matches how I read comments, and
fixes my only gripe with HN: I'm forever missing the touch target of
the little [-] to collapse a thread once I have read it. Yes there is a
next button too, but I prefer to collapse so I don't see what I've
already read when scrolling around.
I found a bug on first launch. Every item was duplicated in the list. A
refresh fixed it.
Anyway, thanks for building this, it's very nicely done and useful.
recov wrote 18 hours 45 min ago:
Been using it for a while. Sometimes it takes a minute+ to initially
refresh feeds but I thank thatâs a HN issue?
thebruce87m wrote 19 hours 29 min ago:
How does this compare to HACK? Getting fed up with the crash bug
thatâs been around for years.
CharlesW wrote 17 hours 7 min ago:
I canât recall it crashing on me (not that I doubt it is for you),
but for other issues the author has been extremely responsive. IIRC
you can report issues directly from the app.
glitchcrab wrote 16 hours 50 min ago:
Yup, a recent update fixed a bug which I corresponded with the
developer about a little while ago; I was very pleased to see it
implemented.
vednig wrote 19 hours 55 min ago:
I built one too at hacked.stream few months back in React Native
ashish01 wrote 20 hours 19 min ago:
I also prefer BFS expansion of comments. So I implemented [1] for this.
Also has dark mode to be easy on eyes.
URI [1]: https://hn-reader.pages.dev/
fraXis wrote 20 hours 39 min ago:
Nice job! Will you be releasing an Android version?
defenestrated wrote 16 hours 20 min ago:
For Android users: Download the excellent, and well maintained
Harmonic app and enable "Auto-collapse top level comments" to achieve
the same BFS effect.
No need to download a new shareware app.
hnand wrote 20 hours 6 min ago:
Thanks! As of now I don't have any plans for Android. It's a native
iOS app written in Swift, so that would require building a new app
from the ground up.
tnetenbaa wrote 19 hours 30 min ago:
Don't know if you saw, but Swift is coming to Android. Might not
require a rebuild after all.
xp84 wrote 16 hours 8 min ago:
Related:
URI [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44387409
sneak wrote 21 hours 6 min ago:
Thanks for not surveilling the users of your app. I bought the premium
version.
pvg wrote 21 hours 59 min ago:
A thread 2 years ago
URI [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36030350
krishnasangeeth wrote 3 hours 23 min ago:
Isnât it advice from YC itself to launch multiple times :)
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