Show HN: hLog.pro (a Hacker News archiver with a card based UI) (hlog.pro)

3 points by phantompeace ↗ HN
I wrote a simple site that uses the HN API to save new submissions. Even if they're deleted on Hacker News, they'll be saved on hLog. It looks for new posts every 3 minutes.

It also has a basic search that looks at the title, url and submission text (if any). It's not optimised in terms of pagination of results (nor the actual page content). If you press "Search" without anything in the search box, you'll get a list of all the records in the database. There are around 4,200 right now.

I wrote it in Python (Django) using SQLite3. It runs on a free VPS hosted on Oracle Cloud. I wrote this mainly to improve my understanding of Django. I'm mainly a backend guy but i want to build some frontend skills and i thought a project like this would allow me to learn that.

Any feedback would be much appreciated, even if it's negative. I know there are hundreds (if not thousands) of HN mirrors/clones out there, but this is for my learning. If you could suggest any improvements, i may be able to learn new things i otherwise wouldn't have.

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Nice! Very snappy. What front end framework did you use?
Thank you for checking my site out! The front end is simply a single HTML template using bootstrap, served using Django. Feel free to ask any more questions!