Show HN: A Hacker News Reader App with Tabs
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The free version will not have ads no more and the Premium version will have a beautiful dark theme.
What do you guys think ?
Had an old one lying around
Make sure to do a write-up at some point on how it worked out ;)
Edit: Who’s down voting this and why?
I like podcast ads. Even for products and services that I don't care for, I find many of the products and business ideas interesting.
I also like the ads in my podcast player - Overcast - the ads are usually for other podcasts in the same category of podcasts that I'm listening to.
I don't like most ads in games and mobile apps. They are poorly targeted, intrusive, and take up too much screen real estate. I'll uninstall an ad based app that doesn't give you the option of doing an in app purchase to remove the ads.
If an app isn't worth the $2 - $3 to remove the ads, it's probably a useless app to me anyway and gets deleted relatively quickly.
Developers - especially mobile developers - have to stop devaluing themselves.
By making it open source you could have a much easier time getting interviews at companies that will gladly pay a salary that far exceeds what you could make on one non-unicorn app.
It doesn't have to pay all of your bills but if at least made some beer money, it's better than nothing. Part of being a developer should be learning how to monetize.
If this was open source and available on F-Droid I would gladly throw you a $5 tip if there was an easy place to donate.
I'm stuck on removing thr native dependecies, so we can remove the unwanted permissions.
Thanks for all the Support, Love and the eye opening comments.
I think you have some steep competition, that's all. It's a great start to get something out there though!
I'll try my best ;D
Its the only way I can stand to use reddit now. Wrote an extension for my desktop that changed any links into reddit to the ud form for me as well
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/
https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.quantumbad...
Works for me, updated regularly, no relation, just a happy user.
- Nested tabs are a poor use of space, scrolling tabs would be better
- The spacing around posts is too large
- The spacing within posts is too large
- The notch extends beyond the status bar
- The captions on screenshots are cringey
- The screenshots don't show the comments page
- The icon looks weird with both a border and bounds with different corner radius
- The '.' separator is sometimes bold
- Capitalization is inconsistent ("3 Comments", "3 minutes")
- The title bar of the comments page is empty
- The navigation architecture with each tab having its own stack is weird
- Padding is different in every type of page (posts, post, about)
- Line breaks in comments are ignored
Unfortunately, I don’t think mobile development is such a good way for independents to generate revenue, unless you happen to make a wildly viral game.
I don't want to generate revenue to live on(yet).
I just want to show that I'm not wasting time. And social media followers don't count. So this was like the only way
I currently use Materialistic and it's probably the best HN client I've used on either platform. It has a tablet mode, a variety of themes, including several dark themes, adjustable font sizes, offline mode, readability mode when visiting websites, blocks ads in websites, does not contain ads and best of all it's open source and free.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.hidr...
Here's the GitHub repo:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.aswinmohan....
But then again, Androids permission is system is still crap...
Third party keyboards don't by default have any network permission and the keyboard automatically changes to the default keyboard for passwords.
The content blocking framework doesn't allow the content blocking app to know your web browsing habits.
You don't need phone access to stop audio from playing within your app like you do on Android.
Google's next generation messaging app doesn't even have end to end encryption.
All HakerNews apps fail on several ways for me.
1) COMMENTING - I really don't need to sign in or do anything if all I get are links to websites and other comments I can respond to
2) Reading links - Normally it is a rough transition. Once again baconreader is my favorite app for reading sites like HackerNews and Reddit. It has it's own simple reader built in. he official Reddit app also has great tabs and opens links inside the app
3) Notifications - No notifications on direct replies always seems weird to me
They make almost all of their money from other sites contents and providing a service to make finding the content easier.
That's why I put ads, you know how hard I felt to put ads on something that you spend hours perfecting.
My previous App was tet, it has no ads, but I really need to make some revenue to show them.
You want to know what those Ads are, ther'e justification that I won't go broke if I pursue code.
It's not that they are ignorant, it's a lack of exposure and also just tough circumstances that may make it seem unrealistic.
I totally understand the point he is making.
That does not make any sense. Writing code to make a living is a very very popular profession in India. Your parents must be already aware of it.
Heck, even those who can barely code can get jobs in the software-services based industry who put them through bootcamps to learn to code while already paying them to learn. I know of no other country where companies pay you to offer you 3-month long software development training for no work.
I seriously don't buy that your parent needs any justification about pursuing coding as a profession.
It's kind of disappointing that you have to make money right now for them to realize that you're learning a skill that pays extremely well in the long term…
> Access to computers—and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works—should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!
Hacker News is a prime example of the Hacker Ethic. Wrapping Hacker News and putting ads on it is the opposite.
Building useful software and selling it is fine, but following the Hacker Ethic would mean improving open source libraries that you consume or maybe open sourcing components of your software.
Microsoft has been a prime example lately - developing .NET and many other libraries in the open these days. They are still making plenty of money but are also winning the approval of developers who like open source.
Dang has said as much.
Basically open-source.
Really like the tabbed interface though.
Many times when I collapse a thread it will do so weirdly and a few comments will still be left visible. Many times I'll also have a single comment duplicated two or three times.
And that also just because being skeptical of every piece of unsourced information isn't too great when having personal conversations. You don't have to believe every single rumor, but making people prove everything they tell you, that's just not very sociable.
When you look at controversial topics with these two companies in them, you often see a whole load of negative comments and then one or two chains of comments that defend them, declare people being negative about it as being unreasonable and you generally have multiple accounts responding to each other, agreeing that this really isn't too bad. And of course, these comment chains have been voted to the top.
The last part doesn't have to be a result of astroturfing, HN's voting system encourages controversial comments, as more people are able to upvote than downvote comments, but yeah, that doesn't exactly make the platform as a whole a better place.
None of the apps I've seen so far allow me to be logged in (and some I wouldn't trust), so what's the point?