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Paul, What you actually want is a mobile projection of the HN site! iPhone is the dominant device in the US but I am sure you want to open up to Asia's Nokia,
by ig0rskee 18y ago
Paul,
What you actually want is a mobile projection of the HN site! iPhone is the dominant device in the US but I am sure you want to open up to Asia's Nokia, Google's Android and the BlackBerry as well.
We launched Mobify.Me in a post earlier today and here's a mobile version of HN done in around 5 minutes (as it's very late here in Vancouver). All you'd have to do is point a DNS entry for m.ycombinator.com to:
http://yc.mobify.me http://yc.mobify.me
Hope you like it!
Team Mobify.Me
- DougBTX 18y agoSurprisingly good, though feature requests abound: format comments pages, colours (!), unicode support.
- ig0rskee 18y agoThanks for the feedback, most of these will be rolled out shortly. Glad you liked it!
- steveplace 18y agoProbably the best timing of a product launch I've seen in a while. You just filled a need for the guy who says "make something people want."
- palish 18y agoNo offense, but that site is terrible: - All that has changed is the front page, which already displayed fine on mobile devices. Every other page (comments, etc) is unchanged. Comments sometimes have rendering problems on mobile devices (they're sometimes way too wide), so it seems like the Comments pages should be modified, not the front page. - Valuable information has been stripped, including login status and current karma count. - The header color has been stripped. - Items should be spaced further apart.
- adammichaelc 18y agoIt looks great on my mobile device (iPhone). What device are you looking at it through?
- sgk284 18y agoEh... it's mediocre at best. Use mobile google reader on safari to see a great experience.
- ig0rskee 18y agoIt's probably because I suck at CSS =) For an example of a mobified site styled by a CSS pro over a couple of hours check out http://spin.mobify.me http://spin.mobify.me . Perhaps you can do a better job yourself - our platform is an open service.
- palish 18y agoKeep trying! I didn't mean to dishearten, just to give feedback. Everything sucks when it's first released, almost without exception.
- natch 18y agoNot to nitpick, but for the record, Nokia is a Finnish company, not Asian.
- katamole 18y agoI think he was making the point that Nokia has dominance in Asia (as opposed the the iphone in the US).