Show HN: Lesen.io a multi source tech reader for Hacker News, Reddit and Slashdot(lesen.io)
lesen.io
Show HN: Lesen.io a multi source tech reader for Hacker News, Reddit and Slashdot
https://lesen.io
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Definitively, I'm living in Germany currently and trying to learn the language, hence the inspiration too
This is great (!) to know.
I'd like to 'favorite' this comment, but don't see a link with which to do so. :-(
Could anyone advise on how?
I'd like to 'favorite' this comment, but don't see a link with which to do so. :-(
Could anyone advise on how?
I’ve been working on this app for reading Tech news from multiple sources in one place and having easy access to the comments of each one, its something I really wanted for me and didn’t find an app that would do it right.
I’d like to get some feedback before going much further on development, this is the very minimal version of what I want it to be.
Stuff that I plan to add:
- More sources (what other sources you know that would make sense to include?) - Save for later (even though I can already save to pocket from the app, this would be nice to have) - Configurable sources - Allow hiding stories - Detection and hiding of duplicates - User accounts: allow to sync read, hidden and saved articles across platforms
What else would you like seeing in this app? :)
I’d like to get some feedback before going much further on development, this is the very minimal version of what I want it to be.
Stuff that I plan to add:
- More sources (what other sources you know that would make sense to include?) - Save for later (even though I can already save to pocket from the app, this would be nice to have) - Configurable sources - Allow hiding stories - Detection and hiding of duplicates - User accounts: allow to sync read, hidden and saved articles across platforms
What else would you like seeing in this app? :)
My favorite reading apps.
1) https://longform.org/ http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/longform/id490437064?mt=8
2) https://usepanda.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/panda-lite/id934805959?mt=8
3) https://redef.com/ app not in appstore
4) medium
5) feedly
Longform has a particularly attractive feature that restores your spot in a page when iOS terminates the app. Longform and Panda and Redef are all incredibly useful without customizing them.
If you are looking for sources check out Panda AND these lists https://redef.com/charts/sources/total http://www.aldaily.com/media http://scitechdaily.com/resources/ http://www.techmeme.com/lb http://www.mediagazer.com/lb http://www.memeorandum.com/lb https://longform.org/archive/publications https://longform.org/archive/writers
I prefer when "save for later" buttons are customizable, so you can set it to save to pocket, pinboard, feedly etc.
1) https://longform.org/ http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/longform/id490437064?mt=8
2) https://usepanda.com/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/panda-lite/id934805959?mt=8
3) https://redef.com/ app not in appstore
4) medium
5) feedly
Longform has a particularly attractive feature that restores your spot in a page when iOS terminates the app. Longform and Panda and Redef are all incredibly useful without customizing them.
If you are looking for sources check out Panda AND these lists https://redef.com/charts/sources/total http://www.aldaily.com/media http://scitechdaily.com/resources/ http://www.techmeme.com/lb http://www.mediagazer.com/lb http://www.memeorandum.com/lb https://longform.org/archive/publications https://longform.org/archive/writers
I prefer when "save for later" buttons are customizable, so you can set it to save to pocket, pinboard, feedly etc.
Thanks for the tips, my idea is that, at least for tech news, I should be able to get enough stories from just one place, not having to go through multiple apps to get a grasp of whats going on out there... and maybe in a future include other categories and not just tech.
I also like the idea of pulling the stories from aggregators as its stuff that people is explicitly expressing interest for.
I also like the idea of pulling the stories from aggregators as its stuff that people is explicitly expressing interest for.
thats what the panda and longform apps do.
you could tell panda you just want hackernews and lobster and dribble.
if youre going to enter this space, these are the competitors you should try out.
it does sound a little bit like reinventing http://www.techmeme.com/river
you could tell panda you just want hackernews and lobster and dribble.
if youre going to enter this space, these are the competitors you should try out.
it does sound a little bit like reinventing http://www.techmeme.com/river
>What else would you like seeing in this app? :)
I'd like to be able to select & apply different comment sort methods globally. Maybe a drop-down that applies the user-rating at top like HN does, but for the other sites' comments, too, who don't do it that way themselves. Come to think of it, it might be fun to sort the main list based on the rating of the articles' submitters, as opposed to their being based on the individual articles' score on their origin site. Like ordering the main page like HN orders comments. ...Just an idea-
I'd like to be able to select & apply different comment sort methods globally. Maybe a drop-down that applies the user-rating at top like HN does, but for the other sites' comments, too, who don't do it that way themselves. Come to think of it, it might be fun to sort the main list based on the rating of the articles' submitters, as opposed to their being based on the individual articles' score on their origin site. Like ordering the main page like HN orders comments. ...Just an idea-
thanks for the feedback :) will consider this
3D Touch integration!
(Quick preview of site, just like on safari)
(Quick preview of site, just like on safari)
similar site I made for political news :-) https://www.hoffmanreport.com/
I would add a "tweet" link, and a link to instapaper myself.
I would add a "tweet" link, and a link to instapaper myself.
http://www.memeorandum.com/ and http://www.memeorandum.com/river are THE political aggregator (maybe besides Drudge)
does your site have any sort of leaderboard http://www.memeorandum.com/lb
does your site have any sort of leaderboard http://www.memeorandum.com/lb
How are the rankings for items from HN & Reddit weighted in the 'all' list? Surely this is hard to balance correctly?
When I made http://serializer.io I opted to list items that reached a certain threshold sequentially but I've wondered about how I might better present the vote information.
When I made http://serializer.io I opted to list items that reached a certain threshold sequentially but I've wondered about how I might better present the vote information.
Well really I just keep the ranking order as in each source site and intercalate them, like one HN one Reddit, one Slashdot, all keeping the order of each front page.
I'm still thinking on what would be the optimal way to display them, but didn't heard of http://serializer.io is it basically the same concept? the only site I found doing a similar thing was http://reader.one/ but its IOS app is not so nice.
I'm still thinking on what would be the optimal way to display them, but didn't heard of http://serializer.io is it basically the same concept? the only site I found doing a similar thing was http://reader.one/ but its IOS app is not so nice.
Ok gotcha; so order is an alternated list of the three sources. This is a good default but you might be able to do something fun here - perhaps ranking stories based on their vote count stdev from the mean score might give an interesting list.
serializer is just a web app and lists stories in a sequential feed - while it has HN, reddit & slashdot on there it's kind of a different concept. It's more of a 'reader'/feed that happens to combine various sources.
serializer is just a web app and lists stories in a sequential feed - while it has HN, reddit & slashdot on there it's kind of a different concept. It's more of a 'reader'/feed that happens to combine various sources.
Any plans on adding an RSS feed to the web app version?
What about an Android version (many of us don't have iOS, especially techies in South Korea)?
I guess the RSS feed will do.
What about an Android version (many of us don't have iOS, especially techies in South Korea)?
I guess the RSS feed will do.
Thanks I will look into supporting RSS, and the Android version is coming soon
A bit off topic here.
I'd like to appreciate how tiny, the payload for the site is. The main js, is just over 18 kb. Too small for a SPA. It loads quickly and reacts reasonably quickly. Good job on that.
Noticed that the analytics related js file alone, took over 11kb. We can do a better job at this.
Noticed that the analytics related js file alone, took over 11kb. We can do a better job at this.
Thanks :) Im proud at the minimalistic approach I took for this project, been working with react.js lately, I just wanted the simplest and fastest type of app here, and Phoenix seems to be responding pretty well too
Sidenote, this UI is really white. Really, really white. A dark option would be huge for me :)
Thanks for the feedback :) I will consider adding a dark theme option, I thought very white UI would be nice for readability
I really like the tone HN is using. Together with iOS's Night shift feature it creates even better colors to read on IMO, but on your current colors it has no effect at all.
maybe you should make the webapp version the front page, with the "get the app on appstore" as just a link.
It's nice to have a single interface to access multiple sources, but when you click on the comments you are taken to the origin site's comment section. If you could comment directly from your webapp that would be a very useful.
Panda is already really good at this, specifically for these type of sites, without the customization/personalization hurdles of feedly et al.
https://usepanda.com/
The browser app and chrome extension let you click to go either to the comments or directly to the post. works for tons of sites like hacker news, lobsters etc.
https://usepanda.com/
The browser app and chrome extension let you click to go either to the comments or directly to the post. works for tons of sites like hacker news, lobsters etc.
Maybe its just me, but I find panda too complex to use, I just tried one more time now and could not get a simple combination of this 3 sources of news in one timeline, I wanted something simpler and that would work without configuration to get good tech news
my problem with almost every program is a lack of deduplication. really only techmeme and google news deduplicate stories well. i want ten places covering one story to show up only once, with ten links to the variants.
I'm definitively putting more effort in this, thanks
if the reddit link is bloomberg and the slashdot link is business insider, they should still show up as one story, with links to both discussions.
Cool! If you've currated the sources that could make it easier. You should take a look at feedly [ http://feedly.com/ ]. You could learn from their UX, and maybe improve upon it. I currently use them on my browser and my phone(android), and I enjoy the experience and control.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Thanks for the feedback, I thought people would appreciate a more minimalistic UI similar to Hacker News, but I might have gone too far :)
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The web app version should have an RSS feed.
So we're aggregating aggregators, now?
Well yes :D I really like aggregators as for me great part of the experience is the community, reading the comments, so I wanted a place where I can do this for the different aggregators
Another good source to add is Lobste.rs. I love it. If it was more popular i'd easily pick it over Reddit/HN, but it's quite small currently.
Thanks I will check it out :)
Lesen is the German verb meaning "to read". There was another submission recently about an immutable/persistent data structure library named Immer which means, roughly, "always".