Show HN: Hacker News Reader for the iPad
Since I got an iPad I was looking for a better Hacker News reading experience than the one you can get using the web version. On the iPhone I use the ihackernews.com web app (and soon going to try news.yc). It's decent for the iPhone, but it doesn't scale good on the iPad. To my surprise, when I checked there was no decent iPad app for HN (i.e. lacking ability to comment or vote, no readability support and more).
I anyway wanted to give a try to iPad development, and was looking for an interesting project to work on. Making HN reader app seemed as a good candidate. Over the last weekend I started working on the app.
The app will be ready for beta by the end of this week (sign up here: http://bit.ly/kCp6XL) and released as open source (http://github.com/arikfr/hnhd) and to the App Store by the mid of June.
Screenshots and more information can be found in the intro post: http://hnhd.posterous.com/introducing-hacker-news-reader-for-the-ipad
Will appreciate feedback, beta testers and ideas for a name.
THANKS!
Nice work. Good to know people are working on this kind of stuff. Will check out the code.
Made a one-page site for an HN reader too but just for the web. Been planning to roll out a mobile version too but got few responses/comments.
Looks great.
As someone who logins using OpenID, in order for this app to be useful, I'd need that feature. Currently, I don't know of any apps that let me do that, but I bet it's very doable.
(Just open a Safari instance to let me login to my Google id via OpenID then redirect me, right?)
I have a great experience pointing Reeder at the hacker news rss feed. Its readability feature allows me to, with a click either parse the linked article into a nice looking format or read the HN comments.
I use flipboard.