Show HN: Hackerdaily – What if HN updates only once a day?

Show HN: Hackerdaily – What if HN updates only once a day?(hackerdaily.io)

3 points by RubenvanE 1 year ago | 3 comments

Hi everyone!

I adore Hacker News, but like all social platforms, it can easily become a slot machine where every visit brings new posts and comments!

To address this, I built HackerDaily. It only shows posts from the previous day, eliminating the 'slot machine' effect while ensuring you never miss the best content.

Some other key features:

- Improved comment collapsing

- RSS feed[1]

- Dark mode

- PWA

- Open source[2]

I built it for myself, but over 300k visitors have used it so far! I will be improving the site in the coming weeks, so I am looking for more feedback!

[1] https://hackerdaily.io/feed/

[2] https://hackerdaily.io/opensource

AlexDragusin 1 year ago |

Nice idea and good to see my site there on #23 on Saturday :)

I particularly think is a good idea that you have made the OP name in red throughout a thread, that helps a lot.

RubenvanE 1 year ago | |

Hi Alex,

Thank you for the feedback and #23 on a weekend day is very impressive!

I found there are a couple of those small improvements that make HN significantly easier and more pleasant to read. Good to hear that the red names are not too distracting!

AlexDragusin 1 year ago | | |

Thanks, it actually went all the way to #2, really unexpected and had other plans for the day but then ended up being around to attend to the commenters, some gave really good feedback.

It surely helps on the very long discussions where the OP replies and the max-width helps also with readability.