Show HN: Hackers - my iPhone app for Hacker News (opens in new tab)

(weiranzhang.com)

3 pointsweiran13y ago4 comments

4 comments

weiranOP13y ago

Hi HN,

Developer here. Hackers is my first project and I'd love to get some feedback from HN.

I decided to focus on reading HN as that's what I mainly do on my iPhone. Hopefully that's enough differentiation from the excellent news:yc app that already exists.

A few key features:

* Typography focused design

* Collapsable comments

* Read/unread badge

* Instapaper mobilizer

I wrote a little about Hackers on my blog: http://weiranzhang.com/blog/2013/3/hackers-a-hacker-news-app...

You can run it on your iPhone for free if you have a developer account, just clone the git repo: https://github.com/weiran/Hackers

Here are some promo codes:

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Thanks, Weiran.

marvc113y ago

Good app, been using for about a week now on my iPad. I wasn't a Hacker News reader until I started using this app. Now I spend all my time on here.

The app has a clean and simple feel. A proper iPad version that has some sort of portrait mode would good.

mattrandle9913y ago

A nice job for your first iPhone application. I especially like that you open sourced it.

An iPad version would be nice.

xauronx13y ago

Hahaha, wow. Yours looks almost identical to the one that I've been developing. That's a bummer!

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