Nice website. Here are some thoughts/observations/ideas:
1) There are a lot of similar websites, and usually, when I am looking for inspiration, I just google something like "landing page design template" or something and look into the first results. Do you have a plan to make Landub stand out?
2) If I understood correctly, if no screenshot is provided (for a new submission), then you automatically generate one? If so, it would be nice to directly show the generated screenshot so that the user can decide if it needs to be changed or not.
Also, once a screenshot is selected, there seems to be no way to change it (without reload the submission page). (It's a detail but it would be nice to add this possibility).
3) On the submission form, you ask for "Features or sections included inside the landing page", which IMO is a very interesting search criterion. Though I don't see it on the front-page. Are you planning to add it?
On a different note, do you blog about your 12in12 journey somewhere?
1) You're right. I usually search in Dribbble instead of Google. Actually, I have a plan to make it bigger by supporting inner pages if I see potential in this area. So users can submit any page on the website such as pricing page, about, contact, login, register, etc.
2) Oh no, I create screenshots manually. Later, I'd take a look into https://html2canvas.hertzen.com/ to see if I can implement it for the submit page. To change the screenshot, simply browse and select another image. It'll override the previous selected image.
3) That's right. That's the criteria I needed it for myself. I'm developer of TheSaaS template which is a block-by-block template (http://thetheme.io/thesaas/block/). I need to find new blocks for new updates and this criteria would help me a lot in future searches for inspirations. Adding this criteria to the homepage is in my todo list. Actually, I need to implement a better filter and search mechanism.
I recently read about this in an article [1] about Tesla's ambition to build a level 3 auto-pilot.
The article points out several issues about this project that I didn't think about before reading it. Basically, there's more issues than just "finding the right math", and on different levels, not only the technical one. I'd recommend reading it.
I planned to fix some bugs in HNBuddy [1]. I was hoping to deliver an update this week, but I just spent 6 hours trying to fix a navigation bar that is supposed to hide on scroll. It is finally working as I want (and on all the supported devices). I just have to clean all that code now...
It's kind of frustrating to spend to much time on details like that. Nobody will ever think "wow, that navbar is smooth!".
Btw, the navbar is implemented in an open source project [2], if you want to get a look at it.
I also dislike Google Analytics for the same reason. However, I manage several websites and I still want a way to monitor their trafic. And I don't know any other tool that is as easy and complete as GA. Till now I resist the temptation of adding it to my webpages, but I am looking for a solution.
Back before google analytics, we did 90% of what it does using software that parsed server logs. I’m sure there are still plenty of tools out there that do that.
> There is a classical algorithm whose output distribution is O(ε)-close in total variation distance to the distribution given by l2-norm sampling from the ith row of a low- rank approximation D of A in query and time complexity [O(poly-func)] where δ is the probability of failure.
So the classical algorithm would give a "sufficiently close" approximation of what the QML would output? The article doesn't mention this at all. Is it fair to compare a quantum algorithm with an equivalent classical approximation algorithm?
From the quanta magazine article:
> Computer scientists had considered [the recommendation problem] to be one of the best examples of a problem that’s exponentially faster to solve on quantum computers — making it an important validation of the power of these futuristic machines. Now Tang has stripped that validation away.
> As a consequence, we show that Kerenidis and Prakash’s quantum machine learning (QML) algorithm, one of the strongest candidates for provably exponential speedups in QML, does not, in fact, give an exponential speedup over classical algorithms.
The comparison is fair and the author is giving a metric to compare the algorithms too.
The quantum algorithm is exact if it works, the new classical algorithm is negligibly worse at a negligibly higher cost.
Even if there's a formal difference, practical performance is what matters when discussing useful real-world applications as motivating examples for new and expensive technology.
I don't know what app you're talking about, but I find the fact that it uses OAuth disturbing: in my knowledge, HN doesn't officially support OAuth. So your app must interact with a third party endpoint. (I may be wrong here, it's just speculation). In any cases, it doesn't seem more trustworthy than typing your credential "directly in the app".
HNBuddy interacts with the HN website through a web scraper that is open source [1]. Though, as discussed in another comment, I can't really give you any proof that the code of this scraper is the actual code built in the app.
Anyway, if you don't trust me, you can still use the app as a simple reader :)
I'm using the one from http://hn.premii.com/ and when logging in it takes me to the HN website login page. As I said it kind of looks like an OAuth flow but probably isn't :)
I already planned on adding an option to expand all the comments by default. I recently updated the commenting module [1] to easily allow this. So it will most certainly be shipped with the next update!
Concerning your last thought, I want to keep all the rights on the source code (at least for now, and as long as I'll have the time and the motivation to maintain it), so I won't release it. However, note that several of the components that I used for this project are open source and PRs are welcome on their GitHub pages.
I took note of everything else you said! Thank you for your constructive feedback!
Thanks! Here's a super quick mockup of a style I think would be more legible (Helvetica, since my Mac doesn't have San Francisco): https://i.imgur.com/IvERHL7.png
Less real estate used for timestamp, use dedicated colours for comment and upvote counts, and a larger font and thicker weight for the headline.
I hope you change your mind about opening the code.
I had planned to integrate Pocket.. I don't know why I forgot about it.
Note though that:
1. There's a built in "reader" equivalent to pocket/readability. I actually open-sourced this module [1]. It uses MercuryApi (the successor of Readability) [2]
2. it's possible to bookmark articles: this action saves them even for offline reading (you have to open/load the articles at least once though).
Concerning your last idea, I find it difficult to integrate it in the current UI without overwhelming it. Maybe if I add an option (as it was suggested in another comment) to choose between a "detailed" and a "dense" list, then I'll think to this feature.
I've long been very frustrated by the search for a “perfect” HackerNews client for iOS (this is a thread I posted here a while ago asking for suggestions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15838104 ).
I really like HNBuddy. It cannot become my main client until there's a dedicated iPad version and until it allows me to comment, but I really like it and look forward to watching your improvements.
1) There are a lot of similar websites, and usually, when I am looking for inspiration, I just google something like "landing page design template" or something and look into the first results. Do you have a plan to make Landub stand out?
2) If I understood correctly, if no screenshot is provided (for a new submission), then you automatically generate one? If so, it would be nice to directly show the generated screenshot so that the user can decide if it needs to be changed or not.
Also, once a screenshot is selected, there seems to be no way to change it (without reload the submission page). (It's a detail but it would be nice to add this possibility).
3) On the submission form, you ask for "Features or sections included inside the landing page", which IMO is a very interesting search criterion. Though I don't see it on the front-page. Are you planning to add it?
On a different note, do you blog about your 12in12 journey somewhere?