Ask HN: What is your solution to “follow” other HN users?

4 points·triyambakam··5 comments

I don't do this much, but I do keep an HN-specific text file with among other things links--like links to profiles I need or want to reference for some reason. The text editor will handle the link-opening.

Sometimes I use RSS for things, but that's mostly non-HN people. It's almost a different world. Mainstream tech blogs, TTRPG and wargaming bloggers, deals, etc. This also requires a lot of active feed organization and updating that I don't have tons of time for, and I find it's more annoying than using a text editor.

I created https://www.reminddit.com, a tool that is a hybrid of a todo list, journal, and reminder tool for such tasks. It’s useful to check on content at your own time instead of being locked in to platform notifications. One feature I like is creating reminder by emailing bot@bot.reminddit.com.

Often, I am reading on phone and headlines get my attention. Those articles take too long to read so I just click the share button and forward it to the bot email with default remind time of 4 days. Oftentimes, the article loses its charm and I can quickly complete the reminder. Hope you’ll find it useful.

For what purpose?

For collecting quality sources of third-party information would be my guess? I could be wrong, but this is a huge part of the HN user psychology and admittedly a favorite aspect to observe. You can even see arguments about it between first- and third-party-preferent users ("learn to use your own brain--think about it first" vs. "why reinvent the wheel--do your googling/research first").

Totally. I outsource a lot of my reading choice to others. Would love to follow someone with a similar reading taste. There must be a product for that.

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