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Show HN: progscrape - developer news aggregated from multiple sites

21 points by mmastrac 12y ago

I built this site a few years back as an aggregator for sources that I check reasonably often. I bit the bullet and built an Android app for it this year as well[1] Both website [2] and Android app [3] are open-source. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.progscrape [2] https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape [3] https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape-android

mmastrac 12y ago
I built this site a few years back as an aggregator for sources that I check reasonably often. It does some naive tagging/filtering/scoring to help surface stories that I personally find interesting. I bit the bullet and built an Android app for it this year as well. [1] Both website [2] and Android app [3] are open-source. Would love to hear any feedback -- feel free to fork or submit PRs! [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.progscrape https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.progscrape [2] https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape [3] https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape-android https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape-android
charlieegan3 12y ago
Pretty good how you've got the articles grouped if they're shared on more that one site. I've been working on something very similar for a while: http://www.serializer.io http://www.serializer.io, I've kind of slowed down recently though. It's a rails app, https://github.com/charlieegan3/serializer https://github.com/charlieegan3/serializer I'll have a look over the code tomorrow.
- mmastrac 12y ago
  That's cool -- I like the variety of sources you've collected. I considered adding custom RSS feeds to progscrape as well but haven't had a chance. The multi-device checkpointing in serializer.io is really cool! I find that the volume of stories from Reddit+HN is too high to keep up with all of them so I use the 'read' status of links to keep track of what I've seen on the homepage.
  - charlieegan3 12y ago
    Thanks, yeah marking as read is kind of essential.

21 points by mmastrac 12y ago

mmastrac 12y ago

I built this site a few years back as an aggregator for sources that I check reasonably often. It does some naive tagging/filtering/scoring to help surface stories that I personally find interesting. I bit the bullet and built an Android app for it this year as well. [1] Both website [2] and Android app [3] are open-source. Would love to hear any feedback -- feel free to fork or submit PRs! [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.progscrape https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.progscrape [2] https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape [3] https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape-android https://github.com/mmastrac/progscrape-android

charlieegan3 12y ago

Pretty good how you've got the articles grouped if they're shared on more that one site. I've been working on something very similar for a while: http://www.serializer.io http://www.serializer.io, I've kind of slowed down recently though. It's a rails app, https://github.com/charlieegan3/serializer https://github.com/charlieegan3/serializer I'll have a look over the code tomorrow.

mmastrac 12y ago
That's cool -- I like the variety of sources you've collected. I considered adding custom RSS feeds to progscrape as well but haven't had a chance. The multi-device checkpointing in serializer.io is really cool! I find that the volume of stories from Reddit+HN is too high to keep up with all of them so I use the 'read' status of links to keep track of what I've seen on the homepage.
- charlieegan3 12y ago
  Thanks, yeah marking as read is kind of essential.