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Show HN: Apply HN Aggregator

thefinac.tk

56 pointsmanibatra19 comments

Hacked together an aggregator for "APPLY HN".Can sort by points, date and random. Maybe a little buggy. Do let me know here or on the site if you want anything to be improved.

Nice - one thing that would be nice is the description text under each title. Often the title doesn't really tell you too much about what the idea is about and you have to click on each title to read. I would love just one long list of all the titles and description that I could scan through.

I could do that but some of the posts have a HUGE amount of text. That was my reasoning of having it the way it is. Thoughts?

Maybe snip it at the first line break, and/or limit it to a certain amount of words to show above the fold, then expand it to read the rest.

I tried what you said...The results were very inconsistent. As there is no particular format for posting there was no coherence at all

Well that's disappointing (not at all on your part, but on the part of the current format), but completely understandable considering how freeform YC seems to have encouraged these applications to be.

Great idea! I will certainly try it out first thing tomorrow morning. Thanks for the feedback :)

Until OP adds that, you could use this: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22apply%20hn%22&sort=byDate&d...

Well done! I'm curious, are you consuming the HN search API or scraping it yourself?

Thanks a tonne! I am using the API provided by the awesome guys at Algolia at https://hn.algolia.com/api . They did all the hard work! My job was fairly easy :)

Nice but you're aware of this, right?

https://news.ycombinator.com/applyhn

It's linked in the top menu.

yup i was done almost the same time that went up. Plus its a little fun to see the standings by ratings

Yours is great, though! The more the merrier.

thanks! Do let me know if any particular feature will make it more helpful

i'm not sure if this is just my problem with whatever plugins i have, but i can only get the site to load in firefox, but it's a total no-go in chrome, safari or even the safari tech preview. in safari and chrome, the xhrs to search_by_date on algolia never resolve (the webfonts never load in any browser cors-related).

Also not totally sure why the xhrs are marked as synchronous, but that causes all the browsers to complain in any case. rock on.

the same issue is coming up on friend's browser but working fine on mine (Safari, chrome and firefox).

The synchronous issue is my bad, was trying something out and forgot to change it back. Will do now. Thanks for letting me know.

Ta. A single page view would be nice.

You are welcome! My only issue with that is its only been a couple of days and we already have around 180 posts. So that would mean A LOT of scrolling by the end of the month. Thoughts?

I prefer scrolling to a bunch of separate pages. Also the 'find' thing works.

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