Hacker News Reader

Comment by mattrighetti | Hacker News Reader

This is a macOS Hacker News reader, lightweight and clean. I would love to hear your opinions on this!

Code should ideally be on github as source code files, not inside a binary archive.

I am not going to open source the project at the moment, I have to clean things up a bit before that. I'm probably gonna do that as soon as it reaches a good first RC

I would imagine you're going to get a fraction of the users testing it that you're looking for then. I know I'm not going to put my username and password into a closed source app from a random stranger on the internet.

At the moment it’s just a reader so login is not yet available

Isn't this the source code? https://github.com/mattrighetti/HNReaderApp/archive/refs/tag...

Nope just the readme.

Open sourced now since it seems highly requested, link in the readme!

I have inserted the link to the source code in the readme, I need to clean things up a bit right now

Are you a paying customer of GitHub?

I thought GitHub free user repos are required to be open source.

I have a college student pro account, for free, so yeah :)

Github changed their pricing model last year. Everybody, individuals or companies, can have unlimited private and public repositories.

No, GitHub never required your code to be open-source. In the past, free accounts couldn’t create private repositories. Nowadays, they can, but those private repositories are limited.

A public repository does not need to contain open-source code, or even any code at all. I imagine the repo just contained a README, and that’s completely fine GitHub-wise — why would GitHub mandate people to have code in repos?

Don't worry about cleaning it up; that's the way to get more contributions!

My first thought is that I can only see a handful of HN topics at a time, versus 30 via the standard web interface.

So, to me... in its current state this app would be a large downgrade.

It's "nicer" looking than the web interface, but the web interface is fine for me. I don't need it to be pretty.

For an HN app to be useful to me it would have to offer more information or features than the web interface.

I’ve just started this, it will become more complex in the future with some help from the community

Nice! It looks good, I’ll try it for a while.

Looks neat. I don’t see any source code in the repository though?

It's closed source. He uses github to distribute the binary.

Yes, give me a week and it will be open sourced. I just need to clean the code a bit

Edit: open sourced it!

Doesn't run on 10.14, requires 11.0 or newer :(

Probably because it's written in SwiftUI.

I do have the option to create a SwiftUI project in the last version of xcode that would run on my OS, so it should support at least some of it. The question to ask, then, is how much of the new stuff, if any, this app uses.

edit: a lot of it. I tried changing the deployment target to 10.14 and building it. Got 101 "'SomeSwiftThing' is only available in macOS 10.15 or newer" errors.

Yes, the toolbar should only be available with SwiftUI 2.0 which was released on macOS Big Sur

Why macOS?

I only have apple devices and I enjoy developing apps in swift, way easier and less tedious than other systems imho. Also SwiftUI makes UI design a lot easier than standard

If you get an MBA I highly recommend a marketing class.

Otherwise it might be good just as a defense against psychology tricks.

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