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There are already over 60 plus apps are being made on top of HN as a data source. Almost each and everyone is trying to either make their lives better, code up

There are already over 60 plus apps are being made on top of HN as a data source. Almost each and everyone is trying to either make their lives better, code up an experiment or give back to the community. Usually they try and do all three. Some used fixed scrapes other are actively scraping HN daily. Really I am not sure what the fus is over, like what profit making? I have personally visited each and every app. I could be wrong but I don't think I have seen so much as a single Adsense ad on any of them. Think the only one that is making money is the iPhone HN app. Isn't this over reacting a little? Today on a post I released my App list. Check all the apps your self https://spreadsheets7.google.com/ccc?key=tCo5BIN61ciUkDjS2aLqjOA&authkey=CIeUndcL&hl=en&authkey=CIeUndcL#gid=0 https://spreadsheets7.google.com/ccc?key=tCo5BIN61ciUkDjS2aL... For this project three hackers got together and saw that we had a common need and that many people hacking together apps too. We wanted to help save everyone the trouble of scraping HN. We did this after speaking to other people and each other asking each other if they had the data. We were trying to make things easier for people in the HN community creating mashups and figured would save Paul and YC some bandwidth. Ronnie already has been donating his time and server for http://api.ihackernews.com/ http://api.ihackernews.com/ and Joseph has been running http://metaoptimize.com/projects/autotag/hackernews/ http://metaoptimize.com/projects/autotag/hackernews/ "To learn more about large-scale NLP + machine learning techniques". I have been getting the data because I have been running analysis/status of HackerNews that I want to share with the community. Do you have a problem with all the HN mashups out there from mobile apps and twitter bots to search sites?

Silhouette 16y ago
> Isn't this over reacting a little? It probably is, as I acknowledged in my original post. Then again, it's also a matter of principle, and as I also noted in my original post, it's a kind of behaviour that has been widely abused in the past. > Do you have a problem with all the HN mashups out there from mobile apps and twitter bot to search sites? I think you have to look at each on its own merits. Clearly we're all happy to volunteer our posts on HN, so while I can't speak for others, I personally have no problem with someone writing, say, a non-commercial app that makes HN more readable on a mobile device. It's still clearly linked to the original site, and is unlikely to harm anyone or compromise the integrity of the posts. I just don't think the same applies to a complete data dump of the entire site, distributed independently and with no inherent link back to the original source.

Silhouette 16y ago

> Isn't this over reacting a little? It probably is, as I acknowledged in my original post. Then again, it's also a matter of principle, and as I also noted in my original post, it's a kind of behaviour that has been widely abused in the past. > Do you have a problem with all the HN mashups out there from mobile apps and twitter bot to search sites? I think you have to look at each on its own merits. Clearly we're all happy to volunteer our posts on HN, so while I can't speak for others, I personally have no problem with someone writing, say, a non-commercial app that makes HN more readable on a mobile device. It's still clearly linked to the original site, and is unlikely to harm anyone or compromise the integrity of the posts. I just don't think the same applies to a complete data dump of the entire site, distributed independently and with no inherent link back to the original source.