HN Explorer

Show HN: Similar user search for Hacker News (hn.garglet.com)

9 points by naveen99 ↗ HN
features:

1. find similar users

2. similarity and dissimilarity search for comments

3. Browse user comments from oldest first

4. Flattened comments in reverse chronological order on stories

5. Find similar stories

Self hosted on a single machine. Probably not ready, but oh well…

Instructions for free trial:

(create account -> confirm email -> request free trial from profile page).

Or download ios app: https://apps.apple.com/in/app/hacker-read/id6479697844

13 comments

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skeptrune
This is sweet! User search search is especially cool. That's not something we got to with ours.
naveen99
Thanks. Check out similar stories also, let me know what you think.
yodon
Man, this looks really scammy, like it's pretending to be HN to harvest passwords. Don't make it look exactly like the HN banner and HN login page.

And why are you forcing people to create an account and password for this?

naveen99
Definitely not the intent. We can make it more explicit that we are not affiliated with yc.

Partly to prevent hug of death. If site holds up, we can open it some.

naveen99
If signup is too onerous, just post your similarity search request here, and I will post the result here.
naveen99
only one person figured out how to sign up for free trial...

i guess we need to make it easier...

In the meantime, more explicit instructions:

after creating account, click on the username in the top right corner.

Then, enter an email, verify email.

Then, click on the username in the top right corner again.

Click on request free trial.

yodon
> only one person figured out how to sign up for free trial...

No. Only one person was willing to go through the hassle of creating an account and the risk of giving you a password just to try this.

Launching a product is commonly much harder than writing the software. This is an example of that reality.

naveen99
Yes. Almost as humbling as the market…

I feel like w. coyote, looking both ways before crossing the train track, and then getting run over anyway, when I try to cross, after seeing no train coming.

There is no risk in creating a one time password…

But, yes we’ll atleast temporarily remove the login wall probably.

naveen99
Removed requirement to setup a password, if you want to try again.
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