Hacker News iPhone App

Posted by digitalsoul on Monday February 16, 2009 @03:17AM
from the self-post dept.

I am an experienced iPhone developer interested in creating an iPhone app for HN, similar to iReddit. However, there doesn't seem to be an API nor a way to access any of the data, other than through an RSS feed. I want to tightly integrate and include the ability to login, post comments and obviously upvote/downvote stories.

I read from the comments that the guys from 280North are working on it... Any idea how they're getting the data and talking to HN?

I would most likely make anything I make open source and freely available on the AppStore. I love this community.

Thanks.

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Re:Hacker News iPhone App by fizx on Monday February 16, 2009 @03:38AM (#482815)

pg tends to play favorites with the yc guys. You prolly won't get much help if there's a yc group already working on it.

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Re:Hacker News iPhone App by imusicmash on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @12:02AM (#484126)

I've been using http://icombinator.net on my iPhone. Doesn't have all the bells and whistles of a native app, but works great! You an see the "about" link there to contact the author.

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Re:Hacker News iPhone App by pclark on Monday February 16, 2009 @05:05AM (#482867)

280 North are building a Hacker News variant?

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Re:Hacker News iPhone App by digitalsoul on Monday February 16, 2009 @01:21PM (#483341)

This is according to one of the comments found on iReddit iPhone app story. They've got a solid infrastructure in place since they also built iReddit.

Idea worth abandoning.

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