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Show HN: A Hacker News Reader App with Tabs
- brudgers 8y agoWhy ads?
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- paulsmal 8y agois there ads? I was going to try it, but now I think I'll skip
- welly 8y agoYou and me both. I see enough ads as it is and there are HN clients just don't show ads, so not sure why I would change to use one that does. It'd have to be a really good client.
- brudgers 8y agoThe page says "ads". There's nothing wrong with writing software that makes money. There's nothing wrong with putting ads in the software. There's nothing wrong with not putting in ads. It's a defensible decision either way, I was just curious and thought I'd ask, and maybe learn something.
- macspoofing 8y agoKind of wrong to use another site's content and make money off of that.
- scarface74 8y agoTell that to Google..., They make almost all of their money from other sites contents and providing a service to make finding the content easier.
- caleblloyd 8y agoI don't want to touch it if it had ads. Hacker News is a community I like because its users generally promote the "Hacker Ethic" [1]. As far as I can tell this app has no infrastructure costs because it just uses the HN API. In putting ads on it, the app author is monetizing a free service they like to use. That is the opposite of the Hacker Ethic. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic
- aswinmohanme 8y agoI'm a student from India. Here parents are really strict about Computer time. The only way I can convince them isnto show them that this thing can generate some money. That's why I put ads, you know how hard I felt to put ads on something that you spend hours perfecting. My previous App was tet, it has no ads, but I really need to make some revenue to show them. You want to know what those Ads are, ther'e justification that I won't go broke if I pursue code.
- SquareWheel 8y agoPerhaps offering a one-time IAP to remove ads would satisfy all parties?
- aswinmohanme 8y agohttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.aswinmohan.hacknewspro https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.aswinmohan....
- Fnoord 8y agoThe latest trend is subscriptions; pay X a year to remove ads. And, while I hate them (cause who needs more monthly expenses?) they're fair for the developer because one-time IAP isn't sustainable on the long term compared to sustainable income. That is of course assuming there is constant improvement on the app/data. Another trend is disabling ads via sub but still having tracking. At least GDPR attempts to fix it.
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- iddan 8y agoThis is un-material designed
- aswinmohanme 8y agoI Know,and I'm proud of It :D
- oneplane 8y agoDoesn't work on iOS.
- aswinmohanme 8y agoI'm currently working on it
- SuperNinKenDo 8y agoProprietary or free?
- aswinmohanme 8y agoFree with Ads
- qrbLPHiKpiux 8y agoAs I said on the other thread here, I like the desktop interface, using pinch and zoom on my mobile device. Reddit is forcing me into the mobile app, and mobile interface, I constantly have to request desktop site, and it's starting to irritate me, pushing me away!
- Normal_gaussian 8y agohttps://ud.reddit.com https://ud.reddit.com Its the only way I can stand to use reddit now. Wrote an extension for my desktop that changed any links into reddit to the ud form for me as well
- ripdog 8y agoYou do know you can turn off the redesign in your reddit settings, right?
- Normal_gaussian 8y agoThat requires logging in
- phosfox 8y agowhy do you not want to be logged in?
- PenguinCoder 8y agoCare to share the extension? Ever since the 'redesign' I have had non stop "Sorry something went wrong! Try refreshing!" issues. It really is driving me away from Reddit (which in itself may be a good thing), and I'm constantly rewriting URLs to the 'old.reddit.com' format.
- Normal_gaussian 8y agoUnfortunately its a catch all extension that doesn't just do that; all you need to do is grab an example extension and make the script do a search for all href and conditionally replace content. I've got a mutation observer on as well but I don't know if it was ever useful
- thosakwe 8y agoEven though there are ads, respect to you for putting this out there. The grind is real. Unfortunately, I don’t think mobile development is such a good way for independents to generate revenue, unless you happen to make a wildly viral game.
- aswinmohanme 8y agoThanks I don't want to generate revenue to live on(yet). I just want to show that I'm not wasting time. And social media followers don't count. So this was like the only way
- spicy_jew 8y agoPropietary software supported by ads which uses a free API behind. This is disgusting.
- Fnoord 8y agoIsn't that true for say Battle.net (websites about WoW) and Twitter (Twitter apps) as well?
- pvg 8y agoBattle.net is not ad supported and what it does is not really 'websites about Wow'.
- Fnoord 8y agoNo, Battle.net is not ad supported; I never claimed it did. The people who use the APIs (such as MMOC) do run ads on their website.
- pvg 8y agoOh you mean blizzard-api-using websites? It's still not the same thing, but it's probably not worth talking about since the original comment was so silly anyway. MMOC would still work just fine if the blizzard apis got taken out by murlocs one fine day.
- Fnoord 8y agoYeah that's what I meant and what OP was (ignorantly) on about. Could've summed it up with: "The reason these APIs exist is it is cheaper than allowing (or blocking) scraping. They earn money from it in long term." MMOC worked before Blizzard used APIs. They'd have to readapt. Wowhead, WowDB, Warcraftlogs, Raider.io, and Raidbots are other examples. Some of these existed before API existed as well.
- aswinmohanme 8y agoFor all who are disgusted by Ads, there is an Ad Free Premium version. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.aswinmohan.hacknewspro https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.aswinmohan....
- drasah 8y agoتعد شركة دراسة الرائدة في تقديم خدمات الابحاث العلمية والاستشارات الاكاديمية والعلمية للباحثين في الدول العربية والاجنبية ايضا حيث يتواجد لديها كيان مهني واحترافي متميز في جميع الخدمات التي تقوم بها http://drasah.com/ http://drasah.com/
- orschiro 8y agoRelated: how do you consume hacker news? Using a dedicated Android or iOS app or directly opening the website in your mobile browser?
- chirau 8y agoI've tried a number of apps, but I always end up coming back to the site itself.
- awat 8y agoSame for me I’ve tried a few apps but always run into a few quirks that steered me back to the site itself. It’s essentially a pinned tab in Safari on my iPhone at this point.
- j0hnml 8y agoIt’s also so nice how quickly the site loads — that and the simplicity of HN’s mobile site makes for a very pleasant experience.
- baxtr 8y agoSafari mobile. Works pretty well. I’d just wish they would support safari reader mode. But maybe that’s impossible with the comment structure
- jgtrosh 8y agoI use materialistic but have a bookmark to my comments page to regularly check if I receive replies, since there's no notification system and the profile view in materialistic is shit.
- ttsda 8y agoHaven't you found materialistic to have a big problem with comment collapsing and doubled comments? Many times when I collapse a thread it will do so weirdly and a few comments will still be left visible. Many times I'll also have a single comment duplicated two or three times.
- aswinmohanme 8y agoSince Ads are universally hated, I have made a decision. The free version will not have ads no more and the Premium version will have a beautiful dark theme. What do you guys think ?
- forgotmypw 8y agoI think it's a great idea!
- beenBoutIT 8y agoSmart move.
- aswinmohanme 8y agoI'll take it as a yes.
- tazard 8y agoIt looks really great! Do you have plans to add commenting, or upvoting? Also, I just checked out your website from the about page, you should put up a simple "coming soon" page or something
- aswinmohanme 8y agohttps://hacknews.launchaco.com/ https://hacknews.launchaco.com/ Had an old one lying around
- tazard 8y agoOh, sorry I was unclear. In the app you have a link to aswinmohan.me which is a namecheap/parkingcrew landing page.
- Semaphor 8y agoI think that's a great idea. dark themes are used a LOT on phones, so having the free version ad-free and functional but without a dark theme makes it an amazing demo. Make sure to do a write-up at some point on how it worked out ;)
- firic 8y agoWhy do you need access to the phone's id, phone number, and files?
- aswinmohanme 8y agoNot me, Ask AdMob Native Wrapper
- scarface74 8y agoI replied earlier that you should have ads because you should monetize, but that's not a good answer. If you are forced to use a binary blob that needs those permissions, it's not a good choice. But then again, Androids permission is system is still crap...
- TheForumTroll 8y agoYes, it is far from perfect but unless you go for a Purism phone there isn't anything better. On Android you can at least get very close to some privacy unlike in iOS.
- scarface74 8y agoReally? iOS's permission system is a lot better thought out when it comes to privacy. Third party keyboards don't by default have any network permission and the keyboard automatically changes to the default keyboard for passwords. The content blocking framework doesn't allow the content blocking app to know your web browsing habits. You don't need phone access to stop audio from playing within your app like you do on Android. Google's next generation messaging app doesn't even have end to end encryption.
- marak830 8y agoSorry, I wouldn't mind a an app, but not with those sort of permissions.
- craftyguy 8y ago
- anotheryou 8y agoI'm sold for anything that has a "mark all read and hide them" option like the HNMarkAllRead chrome extention (which I actually use on FF, even on mobile).
- miguelrochefort 8y agoI think this is a very poor design: - Nested tabs are a poor use of space, scrolling tabs would be better - The spacing around posts is too large - The spacing within posts is too large - The notch extends beyond the status bar - The captions on screenshots are cringey - The screenshots don't show the comments page - The icon looks weird with both a border and bounds with different corner radius - The '.' separator is sometimes bold - Capitalization is inconsistent ("3 Comments", "3 minutes") - The title bar of the comments page is empty - The navigation architecture with each tab having its own stack is weird - Padding is different in every type of page (posts, post, about) - Line breaks in comments are ignored
- arseraptor 8y agoAh yes, the self-confident mediocre white man speaketh. Thank you for your pearls of turd. You may consume them.
- blakespot 8y agoLooks very nice. I wish there were an iOS version.
- forlorn 8y agoWhy would I need a separate (+fremium) app for a free website that works pretty well on my mobile browser?
- baldfat 8y agoPersonally I really like the Reddit Apps like baconreader on mobile more. I also like how I am always signed in and getting notifications when someone replies to my comment. All HakerNews apps fail on several ways for me. 1) COMMENTING - I really don't need to sign in or do anything if all I get are links to websites and other comments I can respond to 2) Reading links - Normally it is a rough transition. Once again baconreader is my favorite app for reading sites like HackerNews and Reddit. It has it's own simple reader built in. he official Reddit app also has great tabs and opens links inside the app 3) Notifications - No notifications on direct replies always seems weird to me
- forlorn 8y agoBacon Reader is hands down the best Reddit client out there. This is one of the few exceptions when you would prefer an app.
- rz2k 8y agoIf you’re on iOS, minihack works well except for #3. It isn’t free, but it quickly releases bug fixes whenever there are changes to the hn api, and there aren’t any ads.
- slow_donkey 8y agoMaterialistic does the first 2. Comment notifications are more an hn limitation
- aswinmohanme 8y agoWhy drive a Bentley when a normal car would do the job?
- craftyguy 8y ago
- drasah 8y agoلدي شبكة المعلومات العربية الكثير من الابحاث المترجمة من قبل باحثين عرب عن بعد في مختلف المجالات العلمية لما يجعل موقنا متميز في قاعدة البيانات التي يحتوي عليها http://www.maktabtk.com/ http://www.maktabtk.com/
- maxyme 8y agoThis isn't a bad start but I'm not a fan of the UI. I use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn which you can sort of demo at http://hn.premii.com http://hn.premii.com and it has a few bugs/quirks because it isn't super actively maintained but the design is just really solid. Gestures work well (Swype left from an article to go back), colors are great (and user choosable), dark mode included, fonts customizable... I think you have some steep competition, that's all. It's a great start to get something out there though!
- ZeroCool2u 8y agoAlso what I use. Definitely isn't ideal, but checks the most boxes right now.
- PenguinCoder 8y agoI echo your comment. I use it and I like it just barely more than the other HN readers out there. It's the only website based APP I actually have installed, for the most part I hate dedicated apps for existing website. But, the swiftness and usability of this one make it worth using; for now.
- aswinmohanme 8y agoThat one looks dope. And has a load of features more. I'll try my best ;D
- djhworld 8y agoHey thanks for posting this, I've just switched to it from Materialistic, will see how I get on - but first impressions are very good
- jazoom 8y agoHasn't been updated for 3 years
- SeriousM 8y agoA read marker is missing. Just show the title a bit opaque
- bitmapbrother 8y agoThe UI needs some work as I find it barren of essential features. You have no settings screen and no ability to change the font size or the font used. I currently use Materialistic and it's probably the best HN client I've used on either platform. It has a tablet mode, a variety of themes, including several dark themes, adjustable font sizes, offline mode, readability mode when visiting websites, blocks ads in websites, does not contain ads and best of all it's open source and free. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidroh.materialistic https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidr... Here's the GitHub repo: https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic
- defoze 8y agoHopefully you have an iOS one out soon!
- dustinmr 8y agoBeen playing with this on a Pixel C. Can't see a way to collapse threads? Really like the tabbed interface though.