Nice, I'm asking because there was a similar service [1] that stopped working without explanation before and that kinda sucked after getting used to it.
You are right but unfortunatly, hosting + emails ( via mailgun ) are not free, so at one point we will probably have to charge for the service if we have lots of users. We are not a company and we are not funded, this is a week-end(s) side-project :)
You've created an interesting product, but you may want to give more thought to a monetization strategy. I don't see many paying to use something like this, but it could get some users.
Ah I see. Why not? It would be especially useful there.
And I just noticed you remove all linebreaks in the output of comments right now. Intentional or bug? Makes for some quite unstructured reads with e.g. patio11's texts.
I've been using this to follow some users whose comments I respect, and it's been a great improvement from loading the hn user comments page all the time. I imagine this is more valuable for startups and marketing managers, but it's been useful me the average hn addict as well :)
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 53.5 ms ] thread[1] HNSearch: https://www.hnsearch.com/api
[1] http://hackerfollow.com/
I use plenty of services which don't charge me......
You are right but unfortunatly, hosting + emails ( via mailgun ) are not free, so at one point we will probably have to charge for the service if we have lots of users. We are not a company and we are not funded, this is a week-end(s) side-project :)
- Autofocus on input field in modal windows after clicking "Follow a new HackerNews user".
- Remember my checkbox selection in the same modal window
- Favicon!
- Autofollowing e.g. "pg" could improve onboarding
- Design is not very content focused right now, I would probably switch the middle and right column
- Highlight found keywords in comment text
- Notify/show me if someone replied to one of my comments
- Modify title depending on what is shown (Right now following.php always shows "HackerNews users I follow" even when I have selected a specific one)
PS: we highlight the keywords only when you click on the specific keyword for now.But not on the "All" sub-tab.
And I just noticed you remove all linebreaks in the output of comments right now. Intentional or bug? Makes for some quite unstructured reads with e.g. patio11's texts.
If you wish to get alerts for your brand and receive the HN link while it's hot it's the perfect tool.