Really cool site. I recently asked HN[1] why did the free alternative to PH die and found this postmortem thread[2].
I think it really boils down to making sure that people coming to your site find something new and creative all the time - to help turn lurkers or one-time visitors into repeat visitors. I think PH does that quite well with their podcasts, daily digests, twitter updates (though they are forced but they do work), etc. Also you're building a community site so if the traffic dies in a month keep at it, it looks sites like these take many years to gain that traction. Basically I think you have something really great going here, just make sure to focus on bringing the visitors back and you will definitely have a winner!
This is great. You have a small (albeit fun) bug when hitting next page though: http://i.imgur.com/eqTVBPy.png :)
I like how Hackerhunt is the most popular item on Hackerhunt:
Well done! I'd just add a way of suggesting tags for the submitted projects to make them more useful.
Really like the design and agree that the idea serves a purpose. Must be really discouraging to brave the Show HN and have it fall flat.
Wondered if maybe having the list for today, then perhaps some other recent options in a slimmer format either beside or below?
Nice work though!
Nice!
A feature ive been missing on hackernews, that perhaps you'd be willing to add, is a community written tldr for each link.
I.e apart from title and link, a short (200chars or so) description anf tldr.
Are you aware of the thread of threads?
If you can nail down the categorization, get some more historical stuff, and maximize that newsletter or just suggestions. This should be a great utility.
Looks great. Can you tell us how you built it? I'm most interested in automatic categorization of submitted articles.
Hi! Just thought I'd report a bug - when you search, and try to click the comments icon to go to the HN post, it goes to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=undefined
This is very useful, as a frequent HN user, I find myself strolling down the showHN tab quite often, and the current UI doesn't let you go more than 3 pages deep (~5-6 days old posts).
Nice work! I just noticed a bug though, trying to go to the next page of system software that is sorted by votes doesn't work. Instead of going to the next page, the first page is reloaded with /NaN appended to the URL, as such:
That's really cool! Thanks for making this website, it's absolutely useful, it might save a lot o projects. I can tell that because I have myself posted on Show HN and my submission never made it past the /shownew. Probably because it was not that interesting to HN's audience, but I can imagine how many really cool projects end up buried in there.
Those stories would get onto /show and also the front page if they got more upvotes, so it is indeed a curation problem. If you're willing to do the work of rescuing good submissions that the rest of us missed, that's great! I wonder if we could integrate that back into HN somehow.
Minor issue and I understand why it happens, but the name of the submission here ("google.com") isn't terribly helpful :)
This is very nice! Keep it up!
The UI on mobile looks great, really clean job!
I have a question, does it also index submissions which never make it to the main show page?
Also, shameless plug : I am hosting an event inspired by ShowHn in Hyderabad, India ( showhyd.com )
How are the topics assigned? Two Show HN posts I have posted recently (that are Open-Source and Javascript) don't have the relevant tags attached and I can't see a way of attaching them.
Show HN used to be one of the awesome things about HN - a real community showcase. It's not like that any more.
As HackerHunt says, /shownew is just a place that awesome new stuff is hidden.
Are there/will there be categories for general products? I like seeing the new business ideas that come through every now and then that a developer worked on.
Very cool. Can I get RSS / Atom for specific topics?
I too liked the idea. Basically It all comes down to giving visitors an incentive to keep coming back.
Cool work, missing a "Why Cryptocurrency is Bad" section though
Gives me memories of Yahoo!, in the best way possible.
Can we get RSS feeds as well for categories :)
Very cool.
Two bug reports:
1. Do you have a way to receive bug reports other than HN? :)
2. After doing a search, the left category menu disappears, and stays disappeared even after clicking the HH "home" link at top left. This is true for FF and Chromium latest-ish on LinuxMint.
There are two possible bugs here: a) do you actually want the left menu to disappear, and b) what your intent is for clicking the top left "HH".
- Go to HH.
- Search for something. Results appear as you type, nice. No indication from browser that a new page is loading; guessing no load by design. But left menu disappears.
- Manually erase search bar. Menu back.
- Type out a search again, menu disappears.
- Click "HH" at top left. Browser indicates a page is loading", but the search is not erased and (therefore?) the menu is still missing.
- Re-enter HH either by typing the URL into the browser location and clicking "make it so", or by clicking in from another site (like HN). Search field is empty, therefore the left menu is available.
EDIT: This was going to be a separate bug, but I think it's related to above.
Scrollbar behavior is buggy.
- Clear site cookies. ("It's the only way to be sure.")
- Don't click anything, just move the mouse around and scroll, with mousewheel or dragging scrollbar. Scrollbar intact, entire page scrolls.
- Click in search field, don't type anything. Scrollbar disappears, mousewheel scrolling has no effect, regardless of where the mouse hovers. Entire page jumps slightly to right, appearing to "chase" the disappeared scrollbar.
- Type something in search field that gets results. Scrollbar returns, top of scrollbar is even with bottom of search field, page does not jump back; I'm guessing this is "your" scrollbar rather than the browser's scrollbar. Mousewheel only has effect if mouse is hovered below the search field, in the area region where the scrollbar exists.
- Click on any non-active area outside the search field. Search field jumps left very slightly. Scrollbar is back to full length (browser's scrollbar?), but there are now two separate scrolling areas:
- Hover mouse at or above search field level. The entire original front page, including the missing menu and the default "Today" list of sites, scrolls up into the area from viewport top to bottom level of search field (which also scrolls up and away with the rest of the page). Search results do not scroll.
- Hover mouse below the search field, mousewheel scrolls the search results, phantom page at top of viewport does not scroll.
- Drag the scrollbar, the "top" scroll area scrolls.
meta, cool
GJ :o
You should rethink the logo "HH" though.. (it's a neonazi identification sign)
Sorry but, did you really had to use HH? I'm German and that only rings my right extremists alarm bells, because they use that for "Heil Hitler" (fuck them and him) for generations.
Hey HN! I'm one of the two developers behind Hackerhunt. As much as I love Hacker News and it's ranking algorithm for the front page news, it has a downside for the Show HN submissions. A lot of cool and useful stuff people have actually made themselves gets lost in /shownew without a real chance to get to the right audience. That's where the idea of a curated and categorised, à-la-Product-hunt, list was born.
This is a very early proof of concept and any suggestions on how to make it better are welcome!