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Comment by calebelston | Hacker News Reader

KickPost is new tech news aggregator that uses a predictive algorithm based on historically popular stories to predict which stories will be popular in realtime. We are about 20min faster at predicting hot stories than Techmeme.

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Great design.

One thing I noticed was that it's very difficult for me to scan the headlines quickly. I think the reason is that right now the focal point is the time, with the red and black, while the headline and description blend together a bit. I think you could change this without hurting the aesthetic. (Also, as others mentioned, a brief description would be great)

Good luck!

The red pulls my eye towards the time as well.

Thanks! Will be playing with the design more tonight.

My first impression, just on hitting the site, is really positive; I like the simplicity of the design. You also clearly have somebody that cares about typography, which is one of my pet peeves. :)

Thanks! Really appreciate the kind words. I do care about typography, so it is great when others notice :)

I like the simple design as well but I do find the italic time a bit distracting. At first I thought it was the italic, but after tweaking it with firebug, I think it's the time information in itself.

How about sticking the time information under the elapsed time information.

For example have something like this:

   44m
   ago
  <time>

Possibly set the time information in a light color like gray.

That's an interesting idea. Will try mocking that up. Thanks!

Can you tell us any more about how it works? Are you looking at the content of the page and comparing it to similar pages? Looking at the url's ranking on various social services?

You should put that line on the page.

This line? "KickPost is new tech news aggregator that uses a predictive algorithm based on historically popular stories to predict which stories will be popular in realtime"

Yup. I think it explains a lot.

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