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Show HN: My first personal app - HackerNews for iPhone/iPad
- rjsamson 14y agoThis looks great - any chance of adding Pocket (formerly Read it Later) support though?
- m0skit0 14y agoCool, looking for an Android version! ^^
- srs0001 14y agoYes please!
- riskish 14y agoI have been using this daily on my iPod touch, it's awesome.
- daxelrod 14y agoI am intrigued! Please consider adding a screenshot of the iPhone Comments view to either your site or the App Store listing. The Comments interface would be the deciding factor for me - I still haven't found a HN app that gets this right.
- nicholassmith 14y agoI'd also like to request this, comments are a big factor of HN for me. I'll definitely be buying either way it's a lot nicer interface than a few I've seen.
- nodemaker 14y agoHere is a screenshot of your comment :) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23360122/Photo%20May%2031%2C%209%2000%2057%20PM.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23360122/Photo%20May%2031%2C%209%200... Also some more improvements to the comments UI coming soon in the next version!
- saadmalik01 14y agoThe comments UI is the deciding factor for me as well. So far, the best implementation of this I have come across is cheeaun's Hacker News mobile web app: http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/landing/ http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/landing/
- salimmadjd 14y agoIs there a bookmark option? If you can let me bookmark and tag or group them, I'll buy it instantly!
- nodemaker 14y agoYes you can add bookmarks to instapaper.
- salimmadjd 14y agoHmm...not quiet what I want. I want to group stuff I've read and want to keep by tags, like python, JavaScript, etc.
- nodemaker 14y agoThats a good idea!.Will think about this! For now you can save the search query 'python' in the saved searches page.
- pooriaazimi 14y agoYes, that would be great (+ chronological front page, which is the deciding factor for me).
- simjp 14y agoKudos for putting effort into a personal project but... It makes me cringe that you clearly used several open source projects (levey's AwesomeMenu[1] comes to mind immediately, and potentially CLCascade[2]) without attribution. [1] https://github.com/levey/AwesomeMenu https://github.com/levey/AwesomeMenu [2] https://github.com/appunite/CLCascade https://github.com/appunite/CLCascade
- nodemaker 14y agoI have used AwesomeMenu and acknowledged it in the acknowledgement section. CLCascade however I have not used.Took me a lot of time but I made my own!Was totally worth it!
- Void_ 14y agoWhy no price info on the landing page?
- ZanderEarth32 14y agoLooks great. I currently use news:yc app for HN but don't love it. I am constantly confused on which icon to use to comment. Might give yours a shot soon!
- justinchen 14y agoI use news:yc too and I miss the collapsed comments. It was way easier to skip over irrelevant discussion threads when you can browse just top level comments.
- thisisblurry 14y agoIf you felt so inclined, you could add them back in for your own use since the code is kept on GitHub: https://github.com/newsyc/newsyc https://github.com/newsyc/newsyc
- nicolasd 14y agoit would be cool if you implement a readability support :)
- alexobenauer 14y agoHappily purchased! I love what you did with the icon; it looks great. I'm using it on the ipad now; it's a great UI, I like how you made and used a cascading UI for it. My only suggestion would be to make the news list not as cramped. But, then again, that maintains some style from the current web version :)
- SteveMorin 14y agoAdded it to the HackerNews Apps list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqL8kR005z0QdENvNUJJTjYxY2lVa0RqUzJhTHFqT0E&authkey=CIeUndcL#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqL8kR005z0QdEN...
- glebche 14y agoCan you also add my Hacker News Android app (https://github.com/glebpopov/Hacker-News-Droid-App https://github.com/glebpopov/Hacker-News-Droid-App) and API (https://github.com/glebpopov/Hacker-News-Droid-API https://github.com/glebpopov/Hacker-News-Droid-API) The API is being by the app but also a few other devs are using it on smaller HN clients/pet projects.
- SteveMorin 14y agoThe doc is freely editable, so feel free to add it your self.
- clarky07 14y agoJust bought this and I'm not seeing any way to leave a comment. Am I missing something? The discussions in the comments are the most important part of Hacker News IMO.
- nodemaker 14y agoCommenting will be added in the next version. I agree it is an important feature and I will finalize this asap. To give you a concrete estimate it should be submitted and approved by mid july.
- d0mine 14y agoThere is news:yc that supports comments http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id434787119?mt=8&uo=4 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id434787119?mt=8&...
- clarky07 14y agoDecided to spend the last few hours making my own :-) Now to decide if I should clean it up and go ahead and put it on the store. Does everything I need though and I solved my boredom problem this afternoon so it was a good day.
- HugoDias 14y agoVery cool! Now make an application for android too, because all that there are horrific both in design and implementation
- pooriaazimi 14y agoI have a few of these HN clients, but never use them, because I love chronological front page. If you could add a chronological ordering of the front page (like http://hckrnews.com http://hckrnews.com does), I'd buy your app in an instant. And a very important note: Your app is universal, so don't use TWO separate icons for advertising it - It's confusing, and I thought I have to pay twice for it (one for my iPhone and one for my iPad). Use http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4c1939167f8b9a9c36690000/app-store-badge.png http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4c1939167f8b9a9c366... , not http://www.ibreviary.com/new/images/app_store_badge.png http://www.ibreviary.com/new/images/app_store_badge.png
- nodemaker 14y agoYou're right.I should have thought of that. Correction Made.Now it shows one icon. Thanks a lot!
- vigilanteweb 14y agoA couple UX suggestions for you. 1. Display the price on the landing page 2. Have the logo at the top clickable to the app store. That's where I clicked first, and didn't get what I expected
- DrCatbox 14y agoFor my next project I will make an app to interface with your app and I will call it HackerDo.me so that you can get a slick interface to your interface of really important discussions and news on make money.
- bretr 14y agoWhat's with all those social buttons sprinkled on top of the ad?
- nodemaker 14y agoThey come out when you press the red + button and go back in when you press it again!
- taylorbuley 14y agoI work at Forbes, so it was cool to see our article page in the screenshot. However I noticed the app appears to be blocking Forbes ads and overlaying its own. I'm perhaps biased in this case, but I would consider that to be bad form.
- nodemaker 14y agoAs the maker of the app, I can assure you that the app is not doing any such thing. It is just loading the page in a simple iOS webview.The social icons that you see come out when you press the button in the centre and go back in when you press it again. Also I really liked that article :)
- farslan 14y agoFor me the comments are most valuable. That's why I'm linking and sharing them always (via Twitter). Is there this option where I can share the comment link via Twitter?
- ecesena 14y ago[OT] how do you tweet hn posts? the link or the link to hn comments? (sorry, I can't easily find you on twitter)
- farslan 14y agoI tweet the link itself(i.e http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4047264 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4047264). I just post them on Twitter. But this is difficult when you are using mobile apps. To solve that I'm doing this steps(for iPhone): 1.) Copy link of the comment 2.) Open it with safari 3.) Share it with Safari's "Tweet" button That's not convenient.
- ecesena 14y agoThanks
- nodemaker 14y agoYeah I have thought about this and will surely add it in the next version :)
- scottmkroberts 14y agoLooks great, especially the iPad version.
- falling 14y agoIncredible the cottage industry of HN clients that sprouted just because the website is stuck in 1998. Goes to show how the community is so important it can trump design.
- gxs 14y agoTo you it's a negative, to me it's an absolute positive. I can load HN from any device and can pretty much count on it loading quickly and rendering correctly. If you have an iPhone, I can see why you would want an app, however. I don't see how people browse comfortably on that device without word wrap. On a related note, I wish the Android browser had a feature to override HTML tags that prevent you from zooming in on mobile sites. One of the nice things about HTC Sense is that it ignores these tags all together.
- swalkergibson 14y agoGood design does not necessarily correlate to fancy javascript animations and cascading whatevers. In my opinion, good design is supposed to facilitate the use of the tool, period. What additional design could be applied to http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com that would make the user experience better while keeping in mind the objective of popularizing the highest voted stories and fostering the community through comments on stories?
- falling 14y agoI do not want animations. As you said, design is how something works. I want a readable font. I want modern HTML that adapts to different devices and screens. I want links that don’t expire after I left the page open for half an hour and then fail with stupid errors. I want a website that doesn’t randomly stalls for ten seconds. This is basically just what all these clients do. All these 3rd party clients are brittle hacks that scrape the HTML because there is no API or RSS feed. This is bad design, not the lack of animations.
- eddie_the_head 14y agoLooks great nodemaker, have you considered adding the /classic page view? http://news.ycombinator.com/classic http://news.ycombinator.com/classic
- PStamatiou 14y agoI've been a happy use of HackerNode for what seems like two months so far. Well done!
- jcurbo 14y agoLooks pretty good. I'm a big fan of http://newsyc.me/ http://newsyc.me/ and use it every day on my iPad and iPhone, I'll give yours a shot too.
- dorkitude 14y agoI'd be interested to see a comparison, if you have time to write one
- nixarn 14y agoThis is the best HN iPad app for sure - nice work! I like the news:yc iPhone app although though, so not sure I'll switch. One thing I'd like in a HN app is a "night mode", the reddit app I use (Alien Blue) has such a mode, which is great because I always read HN&Reddit in bed.
- d0mine 14y agonews:yc supports iPad too
- chasingtheflow 14y ago@nodemaker haha just noticed you have my tweet on display (1st one), nice!
- nodemaker 14y ago:)
- shawndumas 14y agoCan we login to see our submissions and comments?
- nodemaker 14y agonot yet in this version but you will be able to in the next major release.
- peterhajas 14y agoHi! Cool app. Excited for when it can leave comments and votes! Looks like your Path menu at the bottom of articles isn't great when you spam it - I can frequently get just the Instapaper icon to show up if I press it rapidly.