Telescope
Productivity
news reader
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
8 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 17 critical, out of 39 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.
Privacy: 0 for, 8 againstIdea: 3 for, 3 againstDesign: 4 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstPerformance: 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
Web version works well on phones and browsers
From 3 comments
Your website is pretty good as is; works well on the phone. Not sure why would I install an app. I particularly like the fact that some of the pay walled stories open up fine…
webwanderings on HNI've been using telescope.surf on and off since it first launched. I really love it and it renders rather well on Firefox for Android.
usuallymatt on HNI bookmarked Telescope.surf when it was first announced here. I've grown to like it a lot. In fact, just this morning I bookmarked on my iPhone too. I like the idea of a "app",…
oblib on HN
Clean design and useful for daily reading
From 2 comments
I started using it a few weeks ago, and finding it really useful. It has made to the front page of my iPhone! Good work.
samgee on HNSweet! Tired of the Apple news app shoving crap down my throat that I don't want to see.
jboles on HN
Objections
Requires account signup, which users dislike for privacy
From 3 comments
Seems nice but, for me, a major benefit of RSS is not having to give out personal information or creating a new account. I've been activley deleting accounts anywhere I find RSS…
jasonkostempski on HNI’m sure it’s wonderful, but I’m not giving my email address to an RSS reader. Thats kind of the whole point.
aphextron on HNyeesh, excitement brought back to zero. unless it's an app to sync with a web app I regularly use, registration required = delete.
strict9 on HN
Password length limit and hashing concerns
From 3 comments
Why a max char count for password?? The max of 12 is awfully small. Edit: The app is quiting when I try to scroll through Ars Technica in List view.
godinaa on HNDoes this mean that you are storing plaintext passwords in the db? The hashes should be the same length regardless of the password length.
usmannk on HNYikes. Yeah, you should be storing the password hashes in the DB, not the passwords. The hashes are going to be the same length regardless of the password's length. If you wanted…
LyndsySimon on HN
Requires iOS 11 or higher
From 1 comment
Requires iOS 11 or higher. I'll try it some other time. I'm just not ready to give up 10.3.3 on my 6S yet.
JustSomeNobody on HN
Requests
Android version
From 1 comment
Is there an android version?
arbitrage on HN
Landscape orientation
From 1 comment
Enable landscape, please!
MaysonL on HN
Keyword and topic subscriptions
From 1 comment
Is there a way to subscribe to certain keywords?
SnowingXIV on HN
Social features such as friends and commenting
From 2 comments
I like it. Have you thought about adding any simple Social features yet?
gunnr15 on HNYou could add commenting.
MaysonL on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Reeder or Feedly?
From 2 comments
Any details on how it compares to eg. Reeder?
mediocrejoker on HNHow is this better than Feedly?
douglaswlance on HN
How is the app monetized?
From 1 comment
This is a free app and looks pretty cool, but may I ask how do you make profit?
ccifuentes on HN
Alternatives named
TinyTinyRSS
From 1 comment
Let me pitch you a different way of doing it. I use TinyTinyRSS https://tt-rss.org/ as a backend to synchronize what I've already read but I don't like the UI so I wrote a…
jeena on HN
Feedbin
From 1 comment
Although this is interesting and looks good, I don't think its going to be better than what I have now in Feedbin.
leotravis10 on HN
Miniflux and FreshRSS
From 1 comment
Never tried tt-rss but have tried Freshness and ended up settling on Miniflux as my preferred reader. Miniflux: + Single binary, no Cron jobs + Easy to run in a container -…
bpye on HN
Reeder
From 1 comment
As a greybeard still running Blosxom, I love seeing the resurgence on HN lately around RSS feeds. My setup: 1. https://feedhq.org/ for syncing between mobile and desktop or…
miles on HN