Hacker Menu
Productivity
news reader
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
15 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 18 critical, out of 50 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Performance: 0 for, 10 againstIdea: 5 for, 2 againstExecution: 5 for, 2 againstDesign: 4 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Non-intrusive way to check news from the menu bar
From 2 comments
I have installed this and I agree with other users here - I like it. I can check it whenever I want to and it's non obtrusive.
denzil_correa on HNThat's exactly the idea of Hacker Menu. You could check the news anytime by just clicking it, but it's not distracting
jingweno on HN
Clean, nice-looking source code
From 2 comments
Looks great - in all honesty I probably won't use it day to day as I waste enough time checking HN, although perhaps it would be a less distracting way to check it. Source code…
tommyd on HNJust downloaded! I love it. The only thing I was going to say was I wish it had the ability to resize the window and save the size for each time it opened...then I realized you…
ksmithbaylor on HN
Objections
App is around 100 MB and uses heavy RAM for a notification app
From 3 comments
Looks cool. But... 100+Mb for a notification app?
achairapart on HN256MiB RSS when active, hahaha. Chrome isn't memory efficient, but this takes the cake.
Tobu on HNWhile I hope flash drives will come down in price, who has a 2TB flash drive right now? My entire desktop OS, with at least three web browsers, multiple sdks/compilers etc take…
e12e on HN
Only Mac build available at launch
From 2 comments
> Download the latest build for your platform from releases. Cool !! Oh.. Mac only right now.
mobiuscog on HNthere is some irony here... by saying this and then "We are working on Windows and Linux versions. " is not exactly fair. The entire purpose of electron is to "Build cross…
sigmonsays on HN
Requires installing Node to run
From 2 comments
Well done on making this, but I have to say that I'm sure I'm not the only person that's not interested in installing node on their desktop.
mrmondo on HNAnd install node... which I don't use...
mobiuscog on HN
Requests
Windows and Linux builds
From 1 comment
> Download the latest build for your platform from releases. Cool !! Oh.. Mac only right now.
mobiuscog on HN
Dismiss or mark-as-read for stories
From 1 comment
Thanks! I'd like to dismiss and/or mark as read for stories I'm not interested in.
jedireza on HN
Better screenshots
From 2 comments
Can the non-Mac users have some screenshots? I dug around the GitHub repo and the website, but didn't see any.
SeanAnderson on HNUgh provide high quality screenshots, both on project readme in github and on the website as well. Currently the website has skewed image of the thing and then cropped round…
juhq on HN
Questions
How login and voting are handled
From 1 comment
From: https://hackermenu.io/ "Do you have the habit of jumping to comments before reading an article? We got you covered. Comment is just one click away. So is vote." I did a…
e12e on HN
Alternatives named
Vivaldi web panels
From 1 comment
This tool reminds me of a feature in the Vivaldi browser called Web Panels:…
Osiris on HN
Opera Hacker News sidebar extension
From 1 comment
And the sidebar extension for Opera for Hacker News (using Dharmesh Patel's app) https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/hackernews-sidebar/?display=en
shwetank on HN
RSS newsreaders
From 1 comment
I would bet that my newsreader uses booth less RAM and less disk space. This is what feeds were invented for. Why should I install that much bloat just for reading HN?
rtz12 on HN