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I’ve been working on this app for reading Tech news from multiple sources in one place and having easy access to the comments of each one, its something I really wanted for me and didn’t find an app that would do it right.

I’d like to get some feedback before going much further on development, this is the very minimal version of what I want it to be.

Stuff that I plan to add:

- More sources (what other sources you know that would make sense to include?) - Save for later (even though I can already save to pocket from the app, this would be nice to have) - Configurable sources - Allow hiding stories - Detection and hiding of duplicates - User accounts: allow to sync read, hidden and saved articles across platforms

What else would you like seeing in this app? :)

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No splash screen. Just show me the web app already, and maybe tell me there's an app on the webapp page. :P

you were 3 minutes before me :D great minds think..

Thanks Im definitively changing this :)

My favorite reading apps.

1) https://longform.org/ http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/longform/id490437064?mt=8

2) https://usepanda.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/panda-lite/id934805959?mt=8

3) https://redef.com/ app not in appstore

4) medium

5) feedly

Longform has a particularly attractive feature that restores your spot in a page when iOS terminates the app. Longform and Panda and Redef are all incredibly useful without customizing them.

If you are looking for sources check out Panda AND these lists https://redef.com/charts/sources/total http://www.aldaily.com/media http://scitechdaily.com/resources/ http://www.techmeme.com/lb http://www.mediagazer.com/lb http://www.memeorandum.com/lb https://longform.org/archive/publications https://longform.org/archive/writers

I prefer when "save for later" buttons are customizable, so you can set it to save to pocket, pinboard, feedly etc.

Thanks for the tips, my idea is that, at least for tech news, I should be able to get enough stories from just one place, not having to go through multiple apps to get a grasp of whats going on out there... and maybe in a future include other categories and not just tech.

I also like the idea of pulling the stories from aggregators as its stuff that people is explicitly expressing interest for.

thats what the panda and longform apps do.

you could tell panda you just want hackernews and lobster and dribble.

if youre going to enter this space, these are the competitors you should try out.

it does sound a little bit like reinventing http://www.techmeme.com/river

>What else would you like seeing in this app? :)

I'd like to be able to select & apply different comment sort methods globally. Maybe a drop-down that applies the user-rating at top like HN does, but for the other sites' comments, too, who don't do it that way themselves. Come to think of it, it might be fun to sort the main list based on the rating of the articles' submitters, as opposed to their being based on the individual articles' score on their origin site. Like ordering the main page like HN orders comments. ...Just an idea-

thanks for the feedback :) will consider this

3D Touch integration!

(Quick preview of site, just like on safari)

similar site I made for political news :-) https://www.hoffmanreport.com/

I would add a "tweet" link, and a link to instapaper myself.

http://www.memeorandum.com/ and http://www.memeorandum.com/river are THE political aggregator (maybe besides Drudge)

does your site have any sort of leaderboard http://www.memeorandum.com/lb

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