Show HN: I noticed I've spent too much time reading Hacker News

14 points by abronte 14 years ago | 10 comments

I noticed I was getting side tracked reading Hacker News, checking back, reading articles, comments, etc. It felt like my productivity was being hampered so I created a simple web app to receive the most popular stories in a daily email.

http://dailyhn.com

lpolovets 14 years ago |

This is great. A few comments/suggestions:

1) Would be nice to see a preview email. Is it links to stories? Stories? Stories + comments? Something else?

2) I'd love to be able to set the point threshold. E.g. email me stories with at least 49 points.

abronte 14 years ago | |

1) Heres a preview image http://i.imgur.com/6D46M.png

2) It takes any story that makes the top 10 on the front page and are over 40 points. (I plan on making this customizable)

abronte 14 years ago |

I just pushed the custom settings feature live.

You can click the "options" link at the bottom of the email or get it here http://dailyhn.com/options.

You can change your timezone, delivery time, the top X items to save, and the point threshold.

mwhite 14 years ago |

I would like to do this for some subreddits I check too often as well. Maybe it could also be done for RSS feeds, using comment, Facebook like, and Twitter mention counts to determine which articles are more popular.

abronte 14 years ago | |

You read my mind :). I want to fork this code base and apply it to reddit.

KnightWhoSaysNi 14 years ago |

I published something similar recently: http://hndigest.com

_delirium 14 years ago |

you might also be interested in: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

not exactly the same thing, but targeting the same problem

iworkforthem 14 years ago |

Er... I tot there is a noprocrast feature. Why reinvent the wheel?

abronte 14 years ago |

http://dailyhn.com

Mz 14 years ago |

I actually love it when a community has this type of problem: Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup. And it's awesome that folks on HN are so well equipped (and willing) to offer real solutions/options rather than just whining and arguing about it (an outcome common in other communities I have belonged to with this type problem where the right skill set for addressing it was not common).