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vivaladav
Hi, I am the author of this tutorial and I would like to mention that while working on it I realised that a proper Hacker News reader would be an interesting project to work on and I might decide to go for it if enough people are interested.

Would you use it on your desktop computer (Linux, OS X and/or Windows)?

If yes, which features would you like to see in the first version?

blub
The possibility to configure interesting topics and having the client check in the background if anything relevant pops up.

If it's open source I could try to add the feature myself.

my_ghola
Android version. Notifications for followed subjects and followed users' comments. Offline mode. Links to the url in the Archive, Google cache, etc. Maybe a tag or icon if the url is a video, pdf, etc or favicon from the website. A sidebar with a list of all the urls posted in the comments for easy.
d33
Why would anyone prefer to use it instead of the browser?
vivaladav
a desktop client could offer more features and potentially a better navigation.

That's just my vision though, that's why I am asking if other people would be interested in something like that.

biocomputation
>> a desktop client could offer more features and potentially a better navigation.

I doubt this would matter to anyone. No way this needs to be a desktop app.

pritambaral
Quite a lot of those features and the better navigation can be done with a web app too, which would be simpler to install than a desktop client.
isfield
Any idea's worthwhile as a personal learning project. From my perspective I wouldn't use it, simply because the web page is so efficient it even works great on my low powered windows phone.