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Hello again, I'm glad you were able to finish the signup and play a little with the app. It's also nice to hear you like the look of the site and how the conte
by david16 11y ago
Hello again,
I'm glad you were able to finish the signup and play a little with the app. It's also nice to hear you like the look of the site and how the content shows up. As for the sources, you can't indeed turn them off, because they're always there as curated content to choose from. And there's also no restriction on how many times an item can be added from the Catalog, thus resulting the possibility to have duplicate items. But you can always delete the extra cards.
Concerning the fact that when you tap on an item it takes you to the homepage of that site, I'm currently working on a feature that will allow users to go directly to the articles featured on the card. It's a request that many users have asked for, so it will certainly be included in a future version of Hinto. Thanks for your feedback anyways, I really appreciate you taking the time to reply.
I also took a look at serializer.io and it's quite nice and easy to use. However, I didn't find a way to add other sources beside the ones by default and neither to add a custom subreddit for example. The simple look and only displaying the text headlines has its advantages, but I personally prefer a more visual presentation, with more images instead of text. On the other hand, you were right, it's nice to be able to test the app without having to create an account, that's something I should definitely consider for Hinto. BTW, I found serializer's page on Product Hunt and I upvoted it, I hope you'll get some traction with your app!
Cheers!
- charlieegan3 11y agoIt seems to odd that you cannot remove sources, to me at least. Even stranger that sources can be added more than once (leading to duplicate items). Perhaps I'm not quite getting the idea. About custom subreddits, I've opted to only let users select from a list sources. The main reason being that I poll a number of subreddits every 10mins as it is and I want to keep my collection times down to preserve CPU time on my Droplet ($5 tier 😀). The same kind of goes for showing images of stories - I'd have to cache a ton to cloudinary and I'm on the free tier over there too. serializer is never going to turn a profit and I guess there are somethings that come with that which limit it. That said if you think there's a subreddit that would have wider appeal let me know and I'll consider mixing it in. Cheers for the vote on product hunt - glad you like the site.