Hey HN! I had a fun idea a few months back of building a forum which was only an API that people could interact with. This way, everyone who wanted to participate would have to build something, almost as a forcing-function for having a community of only builders and hackers.

I decided to finally build it, and this is the MVP. There is still quite a bit of work to do, but at this point it is usable (albeit missing a few features which I'd like to add, such as voting, editing an deleting!). Let me know what you think! And of course, it is fully Open Source and I welcome any PRs.

Maybe you should add a parameter to request comments/stories newer than a specific date/time (in case you already have a copy of the older ones).

If it does not already check for duplicates of recently added messages, to consider to add that too, in case someone adds them by mistake.