Unofficial Hacker News Streaming API

What is the feasibility of using this (and a lot of other code) to take HN and actually real time-ify it? I wonder how easy it'd be to make that code generalized so you could 'real time' any site that is mostly updating text. Could be applicable to reddit too, etc.

I'm curious about your choice to use fanout.io. It looks like they are similar to firebase, but less feature rich?

Disclaimer: I work on fanout.io, so there's that. ;)

What's nice about fanout.io is that it makes APIs like HNStream easy to build and scale, while remaining invisible to clients. One cannot use firebase to create a custom realtime HTTP API like has been done here.

Firebase does have other features like data storage, though. IMO the two services serve different purposes.

What are the API limits?

No limits at this time. :)

Interesting. Thanks!