octavore

I put together a simple collapsible comment browser for HN earlier today, as I'd found long HN comment threads to be somewhat difficult to parse ("Wait, what is this guy replying to?")

It's written 100 lines of javascript + jQuery, and the more enterprising could probably turn the code a bookmarklet as it can run entirely on the client side. Also works fairly well on iOS.

Hat Tip: Built on the Hacker News API: http://api.ihackernews.com/. Great stuff, although if you click a link and nothing appears, it's probably because the API returned a server error.

http://hncomments.com/

I've been accumulating bookmarks for a long time, and often wished that I could save some of that collective wisdom into a more enduring form. With the new Instapaper API, I've finally found a way.

Over the weekend I hacked together Octavore, a mashup of Instapaper and Lulu, a self-publishing website. Now anyone can get their own personalized, dead-tree copy of the Internet's finest! Get a real copy of your favorite articles, stories, and essays for only $12.

Notes: It's built on Rails, so it might be a little bit slow as both the book generation and publishing take a while to complete and block the server while processing. There's no background workers or anything fancy as I only worked with what I knew to get it up quickly.

This is my first publicly launched weekend project, and I'm really excited. Comments, criticisms, and suggestions are all especially welcome, thanks!

http://octavore.com