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Hi everyone, OP here. This is the story of HNdigest. You see, I've gotten so much good content from Hacker News. Some days, I'd have to keep up with the top st
by hgezim 13y ago
Hi everyone, OP here. This is the story of HNdigest.
You see, I've gotten so much good content from Hacker News. Some days, I'd have to keep up with the top stories and happen on a great JavaScript library, or a really educational blog post. Then I started to think, what was I missing on those days where I was too busy to check what's making top news? I really started to worry about missing all the good content. So, I set out to create HNdigest for myself so I could sleep better at night.
Now, what I'm planning on adding soon _may_ excite some of you. I'm planning to add the ability for you to choose the topics that you want to subscribe to. So, if you never cared about politics too much, you won't be bothered with it....more Python links coming your way, good sir (if you're into that type of stuff).
Anyway, it's been and I'd love to hear what you think about it.
- ColinWright 13y agoHow does it compare with HN Summaries and the HN newsletter? Have you investigated the other attempts to do something similar in the past? What exactly do you do that's different?
- hgezim 13y agoGreat question! Well, two things: 1.) You get to refine exactly when you want the emails to be sent to you and how many of them you want. 2.) You'll be able to subscribe to selected topics (sooon).
- simias 13y agoI would be definitely interested in filtering HN stories, but how are you going to implement that on your side? How will the tags be attributed?
- emp_ 13y agoIf I may suggest something, add an exclusion filter too. Removing things like NSA, Hiring might be extremely useful.
- hgezim 13y agoThe "We're hiring" posts are excluded by default. And yeah, a exclude filter in general would be pretty useful. Thanks for the tip!
- alok-g 13y agoMy humble opinion: When I cannot keep pace with HN, I cannot keep pace with it through email also. I do not prefer to have a backlog of things to read (which is one of the characters of my inbox) since I cannot possibly read everything of interest to me. I find it better to search HN at times of need than maintain a heavy cache of it in my mind to avoid what would be like a premature optimization.
- hgezim 13y agoYou've got a point. I did find that 30 emails per day was a bit too much for me. That's why having the ability to pick off the top 10 is great. Thanks for your feedback!
- nickstinemates 13y agoSounds a lot like HNWatcher (http://hnwatcher.com http://hnwatcher.com)