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Show HN: Hacker News Reader App
Hi everyone
big HN fan here ... so big, that I always wanted a better UI on mobile (and desktop).
So since none of the existing apps satisfied my taste, I setout to do the only reasonable thing: program an app myself.
It's made in flutter + serverpod (so all Dart) and therefore comes in iOS, Android, Web (future Linux, Mac, Windows)
Yes, it has all the boring parts:
list feeds, read and comment articles, ...
More exciting parts:
- swipe list items for faster actions (fav, upvote)
- customize feed (pure list, preview image, newspaper style)
- Customize click actions (open URL, open comment)
- highlight OP comments.
- collapsable comment threads.
The every exciting parts:
- Offline reading / caching
- Notifications about high-score/interesting/most-commented items.
and
- AI summary, summaries the article as a bulletin
Wanna try out the app (as PWA) before downloading
==> https://app.hn-reader.com https://app.hn-reader.com
All other info here:
https://www.hn-reader.com https://www.hn-reader.com
And yes, I'll be in the comments for questions
- DerCommodore 2y agoAh, one question that I already anticipate: Will I open source it? Yea I plan so, once I cleaned up the source code. :D
- fidla 2y agoI use harmonic
- DerCommodore 2y agoA interesting! Yea it looks like one of the "better" apps. Can you recommend it? What is your favorite feature? (might copy it :D)
- mtmail 2y agoCan you add it to https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news , too? That's usually where I point users to when they ask about mobile apps or dark mode or extra features (filtering, offline). HN website should start listing apps on a help page.
- DerCommodore 2y agoThere you go: https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news/pull/100 https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news/pull/100
- corobo 2y agoYour recent comments come off a bit spammy (and are flag killed) - are you manually posting your recent comments or is the app posting the summary automatically? I dunno if HN is the kind of place for a "sent by applicationName" footer in every comment either, feels like none of your comments are going to be seen while using this app
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- DerCommodore 2y agoYea i was trying to create more reach for the app (manually) The feature with the footer was already removed due to the learnings you mentioned above :)
- DerCommodore 2y agoOh, and in case you are wondering: comments via the app are exactly the same as comments via this web site.
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- meindnoch 2y agoStop spamming.