alefalfa

I'm working on a feature rich native Hacker News app. I tried out all HN Reader on the App Store but sadly they either have to few useful features, bad UI or both so I decided to build one myself. Currenlty I have an Android version in the Play Store and I am working on an the iOS verison.

Aside form an improved UI the app has a history so that you never loose a story and advanced bookmarking for saving stories and comments into custom folders.

It is still ruff arround the edges, for example I shipped it with login for upvoting stories and writing comments but the feature broke some time ago and I didnt have time to fix it yet, especially that I noticed most users don't even log in in the first place.

If you have an Android phone and love hacker news give it a Try:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.hackerflow

This feature does not exist yet but its great idea

Happy to hear that! Filtering by keyword will be added some time later this year

Currently it doesn't but an alpha tester also asked for this feature. I will add it to the back log

Yeah definetly, I already started working on it and I plan to launch it in the next few months. For now I was hoping to get some feedback as soon as possible or as they say "fail quickly"

OP here. I am excited to share my Hacker News client with you all. After working as a Android developer for a while I felt that the time has come that I bring out first Android app.

I’ve been a daily HN reader for the past few years, and it’s usually the first place I go when I have a few spare minutes while commuting or wating.

I tried a lot of existing Android HN readers, but none of them quite fit what I wanted: Something more akin to reddit or medium

The main things I wanted were:

- comment threads that start collapsed, so I can expand only the discussions I’m interested in - reading history, so I can find stories I read but forgot to save - bookmarks for both stories and comments - custom lists for organizing bookmarks by topic - the ability to upvote, comment, and submit stories - no ads, no subscriptions and many other features which I would let the app speak for itself.

HackerFlow is written natively for Android using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.

You can use it without logging in, but login is needed for upvoting, commenting, and submitting stories.

I am available here for any questions and feedback to make the app better!

I find it ironic how different the culture is between software and hardware people. This makes me very happy about my decision of going into software