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HodlFeed – a Cryptocurrency Newsfeed
- adamsea 9y agoJust from a frontend perspective, it's a great-looking site/webapp. I would be curious to learn more about your tech choices and the application architecture.
- shadowmore 9y agoLikewise. A blog post like that would go to the top of my To Read list.
- wanda 9y agoLooks like a React (maybe create-react-app) and Redux job, with: - lodash - JSS (cssinjs.org) - Material-UI (mui.org) - Highcharts.js - Popper.js - Moment.js - React-select - Redux-form judging from the bundled main.js file. [0] [0]: https://hodlfeed.com/static/js/main.3593bf21.js https://hodlfeed.com/static/js/main.3593bf21.js
- subie 9y agoTakes about 6 secs or more to fully load the feed on my work desktop. Looks like this API request is to blame: https://api.hodlfeed.com/coin-types https://api.hodlfeed.com/coin-types?
- cglace 9y agocryptocurrency types are used to long transaction times.
- oh_sigh 9y agoI can send you an XRB in < 1 sec
- Cyberdog 9y agoOh, just let someone make a joke without doing an "um actually." Jeez.
- oh_sigh 9y agoIt's either a worthless joke post, or I can respond to it with real information. Some people might think that cryptocurrency by it's very nature has this latency problem.
- singularity2001 9y agoafter bad ethereum api experiences I for one found this interesting
- colecut 9y agoThanks for this feedback! This is my friend's website, and I posted here without giving him a heads up. This is my first Hacker News submission, so I was not expecting to hit the first page. We are doing a quick reboot to scale up and should be back shortly.
- subie 9y agoIt's already loading much faster :) Great looking website and I wish all the best with this project!
- Ipifix 9y agoWhere can I find more information about the API? I think this would be great to incorperate in a trading bot.
- mr_spothawk 9y agono... I don't want notifications from your website
- gryot 9y agogreat site! all in one
- uncletaco 9y agoThe sentiment section filters out "blocks" and "block" as negative words. I feel like you should block it from doing that, considering the subject matter.
- colecut 9y agoThanks, we will add these to the excluded words
- kiliantics 9y agoCan you make an API available to paying customers? I'm trying to contact you directly but there is no contact information on the website.
- bradrisse 9y agoYes we will make it available shortly as well as a way to contact. In the meantime info@hodlfeed.com will go direct to us.
- thisismine 9y agoCan't sign in after registration.
- russellr86 9y agoTry again, working on my side.
- akerro 9y agoHodling is the worst thing about cryptoccurencies most people don't realise. Deflating currencies act as value holders, not as currencies, they don't promote trading or commerce, buying and selling it for physical things. It promotes holding and not selling. This is the opposite of what a currency is. The more people hold, the less chances there are that Bitcoin or other protocols will be ever used to buy a burger from local shop. Look at this, even Bitcoin conference doesn't want to accept BTC in payments for tickets, so where can you use use BTC if not on a BTC conference? https://news.bitcoin.com/miami-bitcoin-conference-stops-accepting-bitcoin-due-to-fees-and-congestion/ https://news.bitcoin.com/miami-bitcoin-conference-stops-acce...
- oh_sigh 9y agoI agree with you somewhat, but before we even care about HODLing, BTC needs to get fees and transaction confirmation times way down for it to be used as a currency. Right now, it can take 10 minutes and $20 to transfer any amount of money on the BTC network. That isn't reasonable to buy a hamburger.
- akerro 9y agoBTC is old and deprecated. BTC is now what ARPANET is to the Internet. Without LN and SegWit BTC will suffer long transaction time and high fees before it dies. We all know it, yet, somehow no one cares.
- spraak 9y agoThat's very true, but a huge percentage of people recently in the cryptocurrency space are only there to make money. Not many truly care about the technology.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 9y agoBut they make money when they stop holding; otherwise it's just a number.
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- jekennedy 9y agoThe website needs comments!
- bradrisse 9y agoAgreed, will get working on that.
- farico 9y agoI like this feed - a more centralized collection of cryptocurrency news, however it is unfortunate that left sidebar does not show currency. At the moment of writing this comment it BTC is worth 13081.8 of something.. is it USD, EUR, LTL?
- bradrisse 9y agoCurrently its in USD, but good point. I will show it in USD and add the ability to change the currency of your choice.
- berkes 9y agoThe first thing I went looking for, was a way to set this to EUR, because I am european. There is no such setting. A small word of unwanted advice for anyone developing anything related to crypto-currency tickers: don't add "multi currency" as an afterthought. E.g. coinmarketcap's API, or the CoinCap interface have hacked this in. It's ugly, inconsistent and feels amateurish. Nothing wrong with adding "mutli-currency" in a later phase, but this is certainly not a "YANGI" thing: There are far, far more people out there, who will want to use your product, but who don't use USD than there are that use USD.
- bradrisse 9y agoWe are working on getting this out asap.
- bradrisse 9y agoMulti-currency selector is live.
- berkes 9y agoI tried it, but somehow it does not store my setting. It looses it after every state change (page navigation). This is on Firefox, latest stable. I cannot see any session, cookie or local-storage that would've stored my setting, nor do I see any network activity that would've stored the setting in my account. It looks like a bug of some sort.
- verroq 9y agoCompare with https://cryptopanic.com https://cryptopanic.com
- shadowmore 9y agoDark theme hurts to look at, light theme isn't contrasted enough. HodlFeed seems to be the clear winner in terms of UI design. Can't speak for algorithm effectiveness and whatnot.
- nefitty 9y agoThey don't compete, they compliment each other. Cryptopanic gives you manual user ratings, Hodlfeed gives you text sentiment ratings. It's a perfect combo, especially if you add in another site like http://solume.io http://solume.io
- 0d311 9y agoSeems that the sentiment analysis speedometer graphic can go "too positive" and the needle disappears.
- bradrisse 9y agoNice catch, will be fixing.
- aceyourtest 9y agoany details to methodology, which news sites are being used? also, any plans to add analysis from medium / twitter?
- bradrisse 9y agoYes medium and twitter are in the pipeline. Sites are being selected based quality of articles.
- aceyourtest 9y agocool - i find a lot of useful analysis from medium and twitter. how is quality of articles determined? is there a working list of sites currently included / excluded?
- bradrisse 9y agoRight now its crypto focused sites, but I find some of them to be positive leaning. Likewise the traditional finance sites seem to be negative leaning. My goal is to add source sentiment so you can see all the sources and which way they lean for all articles. You will also be able to filter the sources you wish to see. Quality of sources/articles are based on reading though the articles, comparing them to similar articles from other sources and making a determination whether or not its a unique article or a spin off another one.
- nefitty 9y agoAwesome! I think it's important to segregate social media, blog and news media sentiment data. The differences are important, for example, news media will usually run a story on something that already has social buzz. People who post on Medium are probably already invested (in the financial and effort sense) in some side of the conversation. Twitter posts might be fleeting thoughts on a project. To help beginner's, you might consider some combined number that weighs each rating differently according to what you think is important.