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Show HN: I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News

14 points by abronte 15y ago

I noticed I was getting side tracked reading Hacker News, checking back, reading articles, comments, etc. It felt like my productivity was being hampered so I created a simple web app to receive the most popular stories in a daily email. http://dailyhn.com

_delirium 15y ago
you might also be interested in: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ not exactly the same thing, but targeting the same problem
abronte 15y ago
http://dailyhn.com http://dailyhn.com
lpolovets 15y ago
This is great. A few comments/suggestions: 1) Would be nice to see a preview email. Is it links to stories? Stories? Stories + comments? Something else? 2) I'd love to be able to set the point threshold. E.g. email me stories with at least 49 points.
- abronte 15y ago
  1) Heres a preview image http://i.imgur.com/6D46M.png http://i.imgur.com/6D46M.png 2) It takes any story that makes the top 10 on the front page and are over 40 points. (I plan on making this customizable)
- techn_in 15y ago
  yeah point threshold would be awesome
Mz 15y ago
I actually love it when a community has this type of problem: Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup. And it's awesome that folks on HN are so well equipped (and willing) to offer real solutions/options rather than just whining and arguing about it (an outcome common in other communities I have belonged to with this type problem where the right skill set for addressing it was not common).
mwhite 15y ago
I would like to do this for some subreddits I check too often as well. Maybe it could also be done for RSS feeds, using comment, Facebook like, and Twitter mention counts to determine which articles are more popular.
- abronte 15y ago
  You read my mind :). I want to fork this code base and apply it to reddit.
KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
I published something similar recently: http://hndigest.com http://hndigest.com
iworkforthem 15y ago
Er... I tot there is a noprocrast feature. Why reinvent the wheel?
abronte 15y ago
I just pushed the custom settings feature live. You can click the "options" link at the bottom of the email or get it here http://dailyhn.com/options http://dailyhn.com/options. You can change your timezone, delivery time, the top X items to save, and the point threshold.

14 points by abronte 15y ago

_delirium 15y ago

you might also be interested in: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ not exactly the same thing, but targeting the same problem

abronte 15y ago

http://dailyhn.com http://dailyhn.com

lpolovets 15y ago

This is great. A few comments/suggestions: 1) Would be nice to see a preview email. Is it links to stories? Stories? Stories + comments? Something else? 2) I'd love to be able to set the point threshold. E.g. email me stories with at least 49 points.

abronte 15y ago
1) Heres a preview image http://i.imgur.com/6D46M.png http://i.imgur.com/6D46M.png 2) It takes any story that makes the top 10 on the front page and are over 40 points. (I plan on making this customizable)
techn_in 15y ago
yeah point threshold would be awesome

Mz 15y ago

I actually love it when a community has this type of problem: Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup. And it's awesome that folks on HN are so well equipped (and willing) to offer real solutions/options rather than just whining and arguing about it (an outcome common in other communities I have belonged to with this type problem where the right skill set for addressing it was not common).

mwhite 15y ago

I would like to do this for some subreddits I check too often as well. Maybe it could also be done for RSS feeds, using comment, Facebook like, and Twitter mention counts to determine which articles are more popular.

abronte 15y ago
You read my mind :). I want to fork this code base and apply it to reddit.

KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago

I published something similar recently: http://hndigest.com http://hndigest.com

iworkforthem 15y ago

Er... I tot there is a noprocrast feature. Why reinvent the wheel?

abronte 15y ago

I just pushed the custom settings feature live. You can click the "options" link at the bottom of the email or get it here http://dailyhn.com/options http://dailyhn.com/options. You can change your timezone, delivery time, the top X items to save, and the point threshold.