Show HN: Hacker News Reader App
hn-reader.comHi everyone big HN fan here ... so big, that I always wanted a better UI on mobile (and desktop). So since none of the existing apps satisfied my taste, I setout to do the only reasonable thing: program an app myself.
It's made in flutter + serverpod (so all Dart) and therefore comes in iOS, Android, Web (future Linux, Mac, Windows)
Yes, it has all the boring parts: list feeds, read and comment articles, ...
More exciting parts:
- swipe list items for faster actions (fav, upvote)
- customize feed (pure list, preview image, newspaper style)
- Customize click actions (open URL, open comment)
- highlight OP comments.
- collapsable comment threads.
The every exciting parts:
- Offline reading / caching
- Notifications about high-score/interesting/most-commented items.
and
- AI summary, summaries the article as a bulletin
Wanna try out the app (as PWA) before downloading ==> https://app.hn-reader.com
All other info here: https://www.hn-reader.com
And yes, I'll be in the comments for questions
Your recent comments come off a bit spammy (and are flag killed) - are you manually posting your recent comments or is the app posting the summary automatically?
I dunno if HN is the kind of place for a "sent by applicationName" footer in every comment either, feels like none of your comments are going to be seen while using this app
Yea i was trying to create more reach for the app (manually)
The feature with the footer was already removed due to the learnings you mentioned above :)
Oh, and in case you are wondering: comments via the app are exactly the same as comments via this web site.
Can you add it to https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news , too? That's usually where I point users to when they ask about mobile apps or dark mode or extra features (filtering, offline). HN website should start listing apps on a help page.
There you go: https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news/pull/100
Ah, one question that I already anticipate: Will I open source it? Yea I plan so, once I cleaned up the source code. :D
Stop spamming.
I use harmonic
A interesting! Yea it looks like one of the "better" apps. Can you recommend it? What is your favorite feature? (might copy it :D)