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2 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.
Execution: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea for browsing Show HN posts
From 3 comments
Cool idea. The filters could be better, ai also filters strings with "air" Date filters would be cool. This year/month/week, last year/month/week etc.
k__ on HNWow, you did design in 4 mins. This is so cool man! I found you today through this website and thought it was brilliant idea! BTW it's #3 for all the time
andreyazimov on HNNice! Didn't realise I was no2 for this week. Awesome job!
Pete-Codes on HN
Objections
Bright orange header is hard on the eyes
From 2 comments
Such a neat idea! I wonder if you would mind a suggestion? The bright orange color really hurts my eyes. When I open the site on either a desktop or mobile device, the entire…
Stratoscope on HNI don't have a particular site to recommend, but my general feeling is to avoid bright colors. You'll never go wrong with simple black and white, like what you have now after you…
Stratoscope on HN
Search filters matched substrings, e.g. java returned javascript
From 1 comment
Mmmm filtering for Java shows javascript https://bestofshowhn.com/search?q=java
akerro on HN
Site was blocked by FortiGuard web filter
From 1 comment
The website is blocked by FortiGuard Web Filtering.
ovebepari on HN
Requests
Date filters such as this year, month, week
From 1 comment
Cool idea. The filters could be better, ai also filters strings with "air" Date filters would be cool. This year/month/week, last year/month/week etc.
k__ on HN
Include old Ask HN: Review posts from 2008-2012
From 1 comment
It's great fun to browse older ideas and projects and to see them in a new light. But you're missing out on lots of postings from 2008-2012 because people used to preface the…
alister on HN
Topic-specific hotness ranking
From 1 comment
It would be cool to make a topic-specific Hackernews shin ranked by hotness for that topic. It’d be cool to focus in on topics I care about, not everything in Hackernews…
softwaredoug on HN
Questions
How is this different from built-in HN search?
From 1 comment
I like to support or at least not be critical of anything where I haven’t put in the work myself, so take this in the best spirit. Is this substantially different from the built…
omarhaneef on HN
Alternatives named
Algolia Hacker News search
From 1 comment
I like to support or at least not be critical of anything where I haven’t put in the work myself, so take this in the best spirit. Is this substantially different from the built…
omarhaneef on HN
hnmail.io
From 1 comment
I guess https://hnmail.io could be what you wanted, but without “hotness”.
desmonding on HN