Available at http://slackernews.johnzumbrum.com
For when constantly checking HackerNews is just too much
Hello! SlackerNews is a project with a goal of making the content of HackerNews easier and more relevant to consume. We have an exciting roadmap of current feature ideas, and I'll be adding more as we go. If you're passionate about making HackerNews more useful, give me a hand or two!
1.0 - UI, Robustness Improvements
- UI color scheme and web design
- UX Navigation
- Hard limits to ensure exceptions don't cause problems
Improvements to Semantic Analysis
- Machine Learning
- Semantic summaries
- Tagging
- Filtering using tags
Search
- Search by keyword across titles
- Search comments
Contributions are welcome! Select an issue and start a conversation, or feel free to contact me directly about new feature suggestions.
This project uses semantic versioning.
Most other sites out there making it easy to consume hacker news seem to have stopped far too short. There is so much potential here! Below is a quick summary of each of the major competitors for SlackerNews.
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-weekly-summary-available-for-top-news-on-Hacker-News
http://hnbuzz.com/top/all/since/25-06-2015?num=20&sort=score Features
- Sorting by score vs. HN algo
- Filtering by section of HackerNews (Ask HN, Show HN, Hiring)
- View by day, week, month, year
- Search bar
http://www.hndigest.com/ Features
- Delivered by email
- By far the best UI design, web 2.0 look
- Gives proejct owner a database of engaged users to target for other ideas Thoughts
- Lacks online viewing of email newsletter content
https://news.ycombinator.com/best Features
- Sort by points
- Part of HackerNews natively Thoughts
- Can't constrain the time frame
http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ Features
- Curated by hand
- Delivered by email
- Lacks online viewing of email newsletter content
- Gives proejct owner a database of engaged users to target for other ideas
http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
http://hackermonthly.com/ Features
- Print-version
- Curated by hand
http://friday-design-dev-roundup.launchrock.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/3wzp4u/for_the_busy_designer_a_weekly_digest_combining/? Features
- Weekly newsletter combining DesignerNews and HackerNews