Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?

Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by jrajav on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:25PM (#5227954)

If you do, please make it configurable to be a normal app as well as a menu bar app. I don't like menu bar apps that do not actually need to display some sort of persistent notification or control, and there may be others who feel the same way.

Also, we generally shy from "yes" and "love it" type replies here; you can probably assume that 1 upvote = 1 yes.

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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by maqr on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:52PM (#5228123)

> you can probably assume that 1 upvote = 1 yes

I upvoted the post, but I wouldn't use this if it was built.

I wouldn't use it because I prefer to interact the web with my web browser, which is always open, already on my desktop, and I enjoy polling HN to refresh it. Tab-management feels different to me than window-management, and I like my current way of organizing HN content from within my browser.

That said, I think it's a very cool design demo, and I think the author deserves feedback from HN.

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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by holgersindbaek on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:25PM (#5227961)

Thanks for the input. I'll definitely consider that. Shouldn't be too hard.

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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by clooth on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:42PM (#5228055)

There is a ready component (http://www.cocoacontrols.com/platforms/mac-os-x/controls/obm...) that you can use to create a menu bar application which can be dragged out to be a regular window. Just remember to keep states and stuff.

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