Show HN: HackerNewt – Breadth-first exploring HN client for iOS (apps.apple.com)

A thread 2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36030350

Thanks for not surveilling the users of your app. I bought the premium version.

Nice job! Will you be releasing an Android version?

I also prefer BFS expansion of comments. So I implemented https://hn-reader.pages.dev/ for this. Also has dark mode to be easy on eyes.

I built one too at hacked.stream few months back in React Native

How does this compare to HACK? Getting fed up with the crash bug that’s been around for years.

Been using it for a while. Sometimes it takes a minute+ to initially refresh feeds but I thank that’s a HN issue?

This is great. Thanks for creating it! Matches how I read comments, and fixes my only gripe with HN: I'm forever missing the touch target of the little [-] to collapse a thread once I have read it. Yes there is a next button too, but I prefer to collapse so I don't see what I've already read when scrolling around.

I found a bug on first launch. Every item was duplicated in the list. A refresh fixed it.

Anyway, thanks for building this, it's very nicely done and useful.

Opened it up, first thing I do is set it to dark because every other HN app runs on dark — immediately prompts me to upgrade and pay. Sorry, but making money by not being annoying is such an old-school way to try and make a buck. Totally understand it can't be free, but then let people pay for things that make your app stand out — not the ability to "let the dark mode toggle stay put", I mean...

I had already downloaded a previous version of this app, so I was happy to see that it was already on my phone. With Octal having an issue recently, it's nice to try out this alternative.

We're very fortunate that so many hackers are intrinsically motivated to make excellent (even free) apps for this purpose, since we like hanging out here!

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Nicely done - thanks for making it. Not sure if I’ll ever get used to swipe actions between boards though… other than that I appreciate its simplicity. The haptics slider is a nice touch too

Nice to see innovating trying to solve the common threaded comment design flaw (not a big fan of the forced vertical repositioning on stack un-/grouping as even with animations it slightly breaks your visual fixation)!

Though for the width issue there is a simpler solution for most of the cases (except for very deep trees) - just make the margin smaller.

In the product video there are two relatively big margins - left of the comment box and left of text within the box. But this is pure waste, you don't need so much whitespace to signal text hierarchy.

i saw the video, and it seems really similar to just a tree view with all the children collapsed by default. How is this different?

Congrats on the launch.

I built a similar app with search functionality and bookmarking some time back

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/h-for-hacker-news/id6744145932

This was primarily built as a way to learn building apps. I went for a style similar to the website and tapping the comment closes the parent comment.

Feature suggestion, a persistent saved word filter for stories, especially on days when the frontpage is mostly politics or AI.

Currently using https://isit.mooo.com for daily usage and http://hnapp.com for advanced search.