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Show HN: Site I made to find independent tech articles that may not be trending

6 points by navd 10y ago

navd 10y ago
Hey all, I created this project because I was interested in finding content related to other interests I have in computing. HN and Reddit is really good for trending information but not necessarily to explore other topics that may still be interesting. Any feedback would be awesome! Thanks
- sitkack 10y ago
  I like it, already found some good stuff. The only nit so far is that it updates and reflows the page constantly so when I click the story is changing out from under my cursor.
  - navd 10y ago
    Thanks for the feedback! I see, do you mean while you're searching? The search is performed after a timeout whenever a key is pressed in the input box. Maybe forcing an enter press or button click to update would make the experience better?
ychandler 10y ago
Great site! Would love to know what sources you are crawling for displaying the articles, or is it all admin generated?
- navd 10y ago
  Thanks! I spent the time to find ~700 independent blogs of people who are publishing content related to software dev / making products in tech. This is done ~80/20 automatically and manually. From there it's a lot of web scraping magic and managing the submission of new blogs to the data source. (Verifying quality etc) I'm happy to provide more info if anyone is interested. Or to discuss ideas for features that you all would appreciate!
wale 10y ago
I actually love this navd. Good stuff. Are you displaying them by date? I mean on search
- navd 10y ago
  Awesome! I'm glad you appreciate it. No currently I am not, and articles are returned based on relevancy of your search. This is really just an MVP, I wanted to get the project out there to get some initial feedback before I start building more. Tagging, filtering, ordering etc are definitely in the road map along with other features!
  - wale 10y ago
    Nice!! What's your current stack?
    - navd 10y ago
      The site is just a static site hosted on a cdn. Very basic js and not using any frameworks. To get the data is a bit of a different story, but it's a collection of scripts written in nodejs / golang for retrieval, cleaning the data etc. Hope that helps!

6 points by navd 10y ago

navd 10y ago

Hey all, I created this project because I was interested in finding content related to other interests I have in computing. HN and Reddit is really good for trending information but not necessarily to explore other topics that may still be interesting. Any feedback would be awesome! Thanks

sitkack 10y ago
I like it, already found some good stuff. The only nit so far is that it updates and reflows the page constantly so when I click the story is changing out from under my cursor.
- navd 10y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! I see, do you mean while you're searching? The search is performed after a timeout whenever a key is pressed in the input box. Maybe forcing an enter press or button click to update would make the experience better?

ychandler 10y ago

Great site! Would love to know what sources you are crawling for displaying the articles, or is it all admin generated?

navd 10y ago
Thanks! I spent the time to find ~700 independent blogs of people who are publishing content related to software dev / making products in tech. This is done ~80/20 automatically and manually. From there it's a lot of web scraping magic and managing the submission of new blogs to the data source. (Verifying quality etc) I'm happy to provide more info if anyone is interested. Or to discuss ideas for features that you all would appreciate!

wale 10y ago

I actually love this navd. Good stuff. Are you displaying them by date? I mean on search

navd 10y ago
Awesome! I'm glad you appreciate it. No currently I am not, and articles are returned based on relevancy of your search. This is really just an MVP, I wanted to get the project out there to get some initial feedback before I start building more. Tagging, filtering, ordering etc are definitely in the road map along with other features!
- wale 10y ago
  Nice!! What's your current stack?
  - navd 10y ago
    The site is just a static site hosted on a cdn. Very basic js and not using any frameworks. To get the data is a bit of a different story, but it's a collection of scripts written in nodejs / golang for retrieval, cleaning the data etc. Hope that helps!