Show HN: Share to HN – A PWA that gives you a sharing menu option for HN

Show HN: Share to HN – A PWA that gives you a sharing menu option for HN(samulisuomi.github.io)

2 points by h3mb3 3 years ago | 4 comments

Hi HN!

I often use HN on my Android phone (no apps, just vanilla Chrome). I got tired of copy-pasting URLs and titles to submit links here so I made this little PWA to help with that. I know there's the bookmarklet [1] but it doesn't work on Chrome for Android, at least not for me. This works from any app.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html

codewithcheese 3 years ago |

Thanks for sharing, this is great. Firefox on Android has some support for bookmarklets, you can search for them in the address bar. This is more convenient. Why didn't this get more appreciation?

h3mb3 3 years ago | |

Bad timing on the New page, I guess. Also, after posting, a couple of days later I realized there was already another PWA for this [1]. I'm glad I didn't find it earlier though so I wasn't discouraged to build my own. I'm glad my implementation handles a certain edge case better I realized: sharing from Spotify doesn't result in a `"null"` title but `""` instead.

[1] hn-share.now.sh

eimrine 3 years ago |

javascript:window.location="https://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u="+encodeURICompone...

h3mb3 3 years ago | |

Yup, but see my original comment and the PWA page for why that isn't really satisfactory on mobile.