Video preview: https://imgur.com/a/tzBdpXw
I have a harder time with software that I have to sign up for a "trial" of a $20 monthly subscription before I can really experience what it's like to use it. With this app, you can see exactly how it works during the daytime at least, and what settings you'd be able to use once you pay, and no trial hanging over your head.
No need to download a new shareware app.
Currently using https://isit.mooo.com for daily usage and http://hnapp.com for advanced search.
I found a bug on first launch. Every item was duplicated in the list. A refresh fixed it.
Anyway, thanks for building this, it's very nicely done and useful.
Though for the width issue there is a simpler solution for most of the cases (except for very deep trees) - just make the margin smaller.
In the product video there are two relatively big margins - left of the comment box and left of text within the box. But this is pure waste, you don't need so much whitespace to signal text hierarchy.
We're very fortunate that so many hackers are intrinsically motivated to make excellent (even free) apps for this purpose, since we like hanging out here!
I built a similar app with search functionality and bookmarking some time back
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/h-for-hacker-news/id6744145932
This was primarily built as a way to learn building apps. I went for a style similar to the website and tapping the comment closes the parent comment.
