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by kpgx 4009 days ago
I'm asking because I'm building an app myself. So other than login, posting, voting and commenting any other features you like?

my app : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kasungamla...

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I just tried your app, it's very promising! Good luck!

Things i like about it so far:

* you can switch between new, top, etc ... (very useful) * It opens all the links in a new tab of default browser!!

One thing that you can work on is the readability of posts... it's a little bit crowded. (title should be bold while comments & other stuff smaller with lower opacity)

What I miss on every HN app I tried is a focus on search. Maybe I'm using HN differently than most people, but I usually look for discussions on topics I'm interested in, instead of reading the top posts on all topics.

For example: I'm an Android developer, so I often browse hacker news by searching for "Android" in topics and comments, to see if there are any interesting discussions.

A great app for my usecase would allow me to search and quickly repeat previous searches right from the startpage.

You could add widgets that jump directly into saved searches.

I also use hackernews in this way. My solution: bookmark this url: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=android&sort=byDate&prefix=fal...

and when you open it in Chrome-Android use the 'save to homescreen' option so that Chrome adds an icon on your homescreen, which opens the specific page