Show HN: Summary Brew – Summaries for Top 300 HN Stories and Books(summarybrew.com) |
Show HN: Summary Brew – Summaries for Top 300 HN Stories and Books(summarybrew.com) |
Stack used? Probably Elixir+Phoenix judging from your post history, what are your impressions about that stack?
I use pinboard archival account for this use-case, but I think some readers here might find this site useful :)
I did think of adding a quick line on the main page, but never implemented it, thinking it will be self explanatory, but you are right, to have it until the site gets popular.
Yes the stack is Elixir + Phoenix. I was a rails and meteor guy prior to that. I like really like Elixir as a language, the excellent documentation helped quite a lot. Also the community around it is very eager to help. As for Phoenix, again its the community weight that shows its strength, being helpful and adding more open source libraries every week. I think if there was one feature where rails at the moment triumphs phoenix is in the number of open source libraries/packages/gems. Elixir + Phoenix sips on server memory.
Could you kindly explain more about how a pinboard archival account compares to summarybrew.
Again thanks for leaving a comment.
Quick suggestion: could you show the summaries directly on your first page, without the user needing to clicks links? (Otherwise, we are back to part of the original problem: need to open many tabs to read each story's summary, or do a lot of back and forth between front-page and post's summary).
In case there would be too much text when doing this, another way to solve this would be to unroll the summary dynamically when user clicks "summary" (instead of opening a new page). Hope this is useful!
I should do a survey about which page should be in the front, well to ask any HN readers who now check out the site, could you let me know that is the current home page the way to go or is this one https://summarybrew.com/summaries/top
Also your idea of unrolling the entire summary text on clicking something like "summary" is awesome, didnt think of that.
Thank you kindly for your words of support and your suggestions.
Thanks bud for the suggestion.