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

[abronte]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[KnightWhoSaysNi]

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

[_delirium]

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

not exactly the same thing, but targeting the same problem

[iworkforthem]

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

[abronte]

http://dailyhn.com

[Mz]

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).