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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by mokash on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:29PM (#5227990)
Looks nice but I don't think I would ever use something like this. 70% of the time I'm on a browser so I prefer to just come to the website. A good app for iPad would be good since tapping the tiny HN links on there is terrible.
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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by elemeno on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:38PM (#5228038)
There's a decent iPhone/iPad app called news:yc in the App Store already.
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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by spangborn on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:50PM (#5228111)
It's also open source, so you can help improve it (if that's your kind of thing)! https://github.com/Xuzz/newsyc
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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by aauldy on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:47PM (#5228089)
News:yc is a "decent" Hn app but it is not the perfect package, it lacks a lot in design fundamentals to create a great user experience.
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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by jcurbo on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:59PM (#5228179)
Do you mind laying out your specific concerns? I'm not the developer of news:yc but I use it every day and like it a lot, and I think the user experience is fine and have never felt hampered or awkward using it.
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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by holgersindbaek on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:42PM (#5228056)
Seems useful.

Not too pretty though :-).

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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by clooth on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:43PM (#5228061)
I use HackerNode, a brilliant app.
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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by holgersindbaek on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:46PM (#5228075)
Nice one. What do you like about that one? Seems like there's a lot of people who've downloaded it.
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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by clooth on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:53PM (#5228134)
@holgersindbaek: I love the quick browsing and general feel of it. I have to admit though, I rarely exit the front page listing & links or use it for anything else than checking up on what's going on in the world.
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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by holgersindbaek on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:35PM (#5228022)
I can see where you're coming from. I've had that feeling myself (still kind of have it). Think it will change if I develop this app though :-).

I'm a bit tired of tapping between browser screens and always going into HN. I'm too much of an addict for those extra steps :-).

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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by maqr on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:55PM (#5228144)
If there was just an un-upvote button, browsing HN on mobile wouldn't be so risky :P
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Re:Show HN: I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it? by mokash on Saturday February 16, 2013 @01:58PM (#5232531)
Yes! So many times I've accidentally upvoted people but unfortunately I can't retract the vote.
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