[saibotd]

It is open source (be aware that the [sourcecode](https://bitbucket.org/saibotd/hackerhub/src) is not pretty)

> add some basic federation

How? Any ideas?

[pork]

In a sense, you already have, by requiring the content to be hosted elsewhere and releasing the pulling code. There is beauty in simple tools like this one. Kudos.

[gbaygon]

Yes. And i must say that the code is very small and well written.

[toyg]

maybe just adding a basic feed aggregator, so that you can easily see your friends' updates, pulling in their disqus comment threads (I have no idea whether this is feasible, i've never implemented disqus).