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4 points by henryw ↗ HN
Spotstart.com is a collection of popular searchable web resources. I had a prelimiary version over a year ago, but just coded it again. If you visit the site on an iPhone, you will see a customized version (http://www.apple.com/webapps/searchtools/spotstart.html). Somehow, I think the iPhone version will be more popular. There is a category for startups which includes Hacker News searched from google.

Please let me know what you guys think. Anything to be added or removed? Thanks.

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jws
I think I must figure out how you made it scroll up to hide the URL bar after it loaded. Nice touch. It looks and feels right on the iPhone, but I'm not a candidate user. I keep everything like that in my synchronized bookmarks.
ALee
You might want to put an About or What is this? link. I have no idea upon going to the site what this is.

It seems that this is a search directory, but your search doesn't work and I really don't need a directory.

henryw
Can you tell me what part of the search failed and what browser you are using? Thanks.
ALee
Yeah, Firefox (non-beta 3). The top portion of the search. It seemed to get hung up.
chaostheory
the purpose of the radio buttons confuse me a bit

so it's basically an ajax web directory?

henryw
the radio button shows which site that the search will be going to. it is a directory like site.
chaostheory
i hate to say this, but I feel that it's not very intuitive and it should be changed
wumi
Have any of the commenters here used it on the iPhone? I just web-clipped it, works beautifully.