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Show HN: PaperDelivery – fetch articles from your Twitter feed

49 points by lonesword 5y ago

amadeuspagel 5y ago
Nice. One minor thing: After you sign up, it tells you to check back in a while. Not sure people will remember that for long enough for there to be something there when they check back. Maybe something like "check back in a while or enable RSS" would work. With "enable RSS" being underlined and clickable.
- lonesword 5y ago
  Thanks, that's a nice suggestion!
  - lonesword 5y ago
    I've made this change :)
  - douglaswlance 5y ago
    It could be better to add a long load indicator that says "Delivering your latest articles" or something with a nice animation while you fetch the latest few articles, then repopulating the viewport with the articles. Once users leave the page, they'll forget they ever signed up.
    - lonesword 5y ago
      Hi, thanks for the feedback! Yeah the front-end is pretty bare-bones right now :)
ashishb 5y ago
I just manually add the best ones to my custom RSS feed for reading - https://reading.ashishb.net https://reading.ashishb.net
- lonesword 5y ago
  Well, my goal was to use Twitter without using it. Yes, having my cake and eating it too :)
- mikevm 5y ago
  What is the logic behind coloring the text in readability view?
  - ashishb 5y ago
    To make it easier to read. Jumping from one line to another is where we lose which line we were on. See https://github.com/corollari/waspline-reader https://github.com/corollari/waspline-reader for more details
lonesword 5y ago
Creator here. PaperDelivery grew out of my frustration with Twitter. I found myself relying on Twitter to follow a particular research community, but realized that I do not care about the actual tweets/threads - all I wanted was the link to the underlying paper/article. I also did not like how often I got sucked into reading an opinion thread (often political), and I walk away (30 minutes later) thinking "do people really believe those things?". All I really want out of Twitter is some sort of personalized hacker news, and this is my attempt at creating it.
- d4rkp4ttern 5y ago
  There was an iOS app called Nuzzel that was my daily go to for Twitter news articles. It was also giving context for the stories such as comments made by folks retweeting it, which were actually very useful as a TL/DR and also because they would highlight some important aspect of these. And there is also FlipBoard which you can link to your Twitter feed. Is your aim somewhat different, I.e produce an “offline” way to read that doesn’t involve endless scrolling?
  - lonesword 5y ago
    > Is your aim somewhat different, I.e produce an “offline” way to read that doesn’t involve endless scrolling? Not having to see the actual tweets was the goal. The problem with connecting my Twitter feed to Flipboard e.t.c is that I'd get exposed to every careless tweet/thread/flame war. The hypothesis with PaperDelivery is that the external links that appear on my twitter feed has less frivolous content since it's not limited to 280 characters. >There was an iOS app called Nuzzel that was my daily go to for Twitter news articles. It was also giving context for the stories such as comments made by folks retweeting it, Ah I didn't know about Nuzzel - sounds useful if it can fetch just the links. According to a different comment, mailbrew.com too seems to be able to do this.
    - earthboundkid 5y ago
      Twitter purchased and killed Nuzzel in May. It was great before that.
0xferruccio 5y ago
This is a cool project. Some months ago I also started consuming feeds in an async way by creating a daily personal newsletter with all my favorite creators and news sources (using mailbrew.com). I’m spending a lot less time doom scrolling because of this.
cheeaun 5y ago
Would be great if this works for Lists too, instead of the home feed.
- lonesword 5y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. Yes, support for twitter lists is a planned feature.
harish5p 5y ago
News websites are asking if I'm a robot instead of showing the headlines.Is it common? https://postimg.cc/47xNhT1g https://postimg.cc/47xNhT1g
- deleted 5y ago
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- lonesword 5y ago
  Unfortunately yes. They see too many requests from paperdelivery.co and block requests originating from that domain - they only want the google bot to crawl their site :) I think I have two options: 1. Respect their decision to not allow PaperDelivery to fetch that page. 2. Use a set of proxies and headless browsers or outright impersonate the Google bot to trick the news websites into allowing PaperDelivery to fetch that page.
KirillPanov 5y ago
Site appears to be losing the battle with the Hug Of Death...
gopi 5y ago
Nuzzel reincarnated?. I was a heavy user of it and really miss it.
twoslide 5y ago
Interesting, did you follow Twitter's recent acquisition of Scroll? They might be moving into this space themselves.
oschrenk 5y ago
Great idea! Was using it without realizing how new the product is. What happened to it? The website/service seems to be down?

49 points by lonesword 5y ago

Nice. One minor thing: After you sign up, it tells you to check back in a while. Not sure people will remember that for long enough for there to be something there when they check back. Maybe something like "check back in a while or enable RSS" would work. With "enable RSS" being underlined and clickable.

lonesword 5y ago
Thanks, that's a nice suggestion!
- lonesword 5y ago
  I've made this change :)
- douglaswlance 5y ago
  It could be better to add a long load indicator that says "Delivering your latest articles" or something with a nice animation while you fetch the latest few articles, then repopulating the viewport with the articles. Once users leave the page, they'll forget they ever signed up.
  - lonesword 5y ago
    Hi, thanks for the feedback! Yeah the front-end is pretty bare-bones right now :)

ashishb 5y ago

I just manually add the best ones to my custom RSS feed for reading - https://reading.ashishb.net https://reading.ashishb.net

lonesword 5y ago
Well, my goal was to use Twitter without using it. Yes, having my cake and eating it too :)
mikevm 5y ago
What is the logic behind coloring the text in readability view?
- ashishb 5y ago
  To make it easier to read. Jumping from one line to another is where we lose which line we were on. See https://github.com/corollari/waspline-reader https://github.com/corollari/waspline-reader for more details

lonesword 5y ago

Creator here. PaperDelivery grew out of my frustration with Twitter. I found myself relying on Twitter to follow a particular research community, but realized that I do not care about the actual tweets/threads - all I wanted was the link to the underlying paper/article. I also did not like how often I got sucked into reading an opinion thread (often political), and I walk away (30 minutes later) thinking "do people really believe those things?". All I really want out of Twitter is some sort of personalized hacker news, and this is my attempt at creating it.

d4rkp4ttern 5y ago
There was an iOS app called Nuzzel that was my daily go to for Twitter news articles. It was also giving context for the stories such as comments made by folks retweeting it, which were actually very useful as a TL/DR and also because they would highlight some important aspect of these. And there is also FlipBoard which you can link to your Twitter feed. Is your aim somewhat different, I.e produce an “offline” way to read that doesn’t involve endless scrolling?
- lonesword 5y ago
  > Is your aim somewhat different, I.e produce an “offline” way to read that doesn’t involve endless scrolling? Not having to see the actual tweets was the goal. The problem with connecting my Twitter feed to Flipboard e.t.c is that I'd get exposed to every careless tweet/thread/flame war. The hypothesis with PaperDelivery is that the external links that appear on my twitter feed has less frivolous content since it's not limited to 280 characters. >There was an iOS app called Nuzzel that was my daily go to for Twitter news articles. It was also giving context for the stories such as comments made by folks retweeting it, Ah I didn't know about Nuzzel - sounds useful if it can fetch just the links. According to a different comment, mailbrew.com too seems to be able to do this.
  - earthboundkid 5y ago
    Twitter purchased and killed Nuzzel in May. It was great before that.

0xferruccio 5y ago

This is a cool project. Some months ago I also started consuming feeds in an async way by creating a daily personal newsletter with all my favorite creators and news sources (using mailbrew.com). I’m spending a lot less time doom scrolling because of this.

cheeaun 5y ago

Would be great if this works for Lists too, instead of the home feed.

lonesword 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, support for twitter lists is a planned feature.

harish5p 5y ago

News websites are asking if I'm a robot instead of showing the headlines.Is it common? https://postimg.cc/47xNhT1g https://postimg.cc/47xNhT1g

deleted 5y ago
[deleted]
lonesword 5y ago
Unfortunately yes. They see too many requests from paperdelivery.co and block requests originating from that domain - they only want the google bot to crawl their site :) I think I have two options: 1. Respect their decision to not allow PaperDelivery to fetch that page. 2. Use a set of proxies and headless browsers or outright impersonate the Google bot to trick the news websites into allowing PaperDelivery to fetch that page.

KirillPanov 5y ago

Site appears to be losing the battle with the Hug Of Death...

gopi 5y ago

Nuzzel reincarnated?. I was a heavy user of it and really miss it.

twoslide 5y ago

Interesting, did you follow Twitter's recent acquisition of Scroll? They might be moving into this space themselves.

oschrenk 5y ago

Great idea! Was using it without realizing how new the product is. What happened to it? The website/service seems to be down?