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Re:Show HN: HacKit, a native macOS Cocoa app for reading Hac... by anosidium on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:19PM (#25873695)
Hey Hacker News, I am the developer of this app. It’s my first macOS Cocoa app. This is a Mac first app which means it is built for the Mac, not an afterthought and taking advantage of the design language, frameworks and the platform.

It is also not a port of an iPhone nor iPad app and not a Catalyst app or a cross-platform app like Electron, Java etc. It is a true native AppKit app written in Swift.

I have plans to improve it. It’s only a humble beginning.

I would love to know what you think about it. I welcome all kinds of feedbacks.

Re:Show HN: HacKit, a native macOS Cocoa app for reading Hac... by meester_ben on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:34PM (#25873898)
I like it! More UI customizations would be nice, like changing the font family and size.

EDIT: also being able to pin a story to the sidebar would be excellent.

Re:Show HN: HacKit, a native macOS Cocoa app for reading Hac... by anosidium on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:48PM (#25874090)
Thanks! I'll add your suggestions to my list of features.

About pinning a story, do you mean a dedicated bookmarks section to store all your favourite stories?

Re:Show HN: HacKit, a native macOS Cocoa app for reading Hac... by meester_ben on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:57PM (#25874176)
More like I want to come back later and read more comments but I don't want to have to scroll or search for the story again.
Re:Show HN: HacKit, a native macOS Cocoa app for reading Hac... by helloSam43 on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:15PM (#25896726)
why? what? why not support like 10.12 11+ only, what was the super cool toolkit you needed for this app to cut off people on like not that old laptops that can't update.
Re:Show HN: HacKit, a native macOS Cocoa app for reading Hac... by jp1016 on Friday January 22, 2021 @01:11PM (#25874312)
looks cool, but i feel that the loading time is bit high
Re:Show HN: HacKit, a native macOS Cocoa app for reading Hac... by anosidium on Friday January 22, 2021 @01:17PM (#25874381)
Thanks! In future updates, I will reduce the load time.
Re:Show HN: HacKit, a native macOS Cocoa app for reading Hac... by mritchie712 on Friday January 22, 2021 @01:08PM (#25874271)
can you comment / vote?
Re:Show HN: HacKit, a native macOS Cocoa app for reading Hac... by anosidium on Friday January 22, 2021 @01:16PM (#25874364)
Not yet though. The official API doesn't support it.
Re:Show HN: HacKit, a native macOS Cocoa app for reading Hac... by mittermayr on Saturday January 23, 2021 @10:59AM (#25883163)
Would be cool to have a button that says "comment" or "respond" or something that opens the browser at that url's comment section, so I can continue there. I'm logged in on the browser anyway.
Re:Show HN: HacKit, a native macOS Cocoa app for reading Hac... by anosidium on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:48AM (#25890978)
Interesting idea! I think it might be a frustrating user experience because you either completely browse and post on the web browser or do it from the app. Doing it in between may not be a smooth experience.

I wish the official APIs support account login. I would have implemented it already.