Food News
Consumer and social
news clone
SHOW HN2013
How HN took it
7 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 1 critical, out of 12 comments about the project. Thread score +0.39.
Idea: 5 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 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
Clean, smooth design and flow
From 2 comments
Nice, smooth flow to it. It might be nice if rather than assigning you a random string as a username it used something like "Click here to set your user name".
AndrewDucker on HNGood job, this is very cool! Maybe you want to use the triangle, that was featured on HN a few days ago :) -- http://codepen.io/chriscoyier/full/lotjh Is the source available for…
selmnoo on HN
Fills an important gap for food news
From 2 comments
I'm super-excited about this site; I think it'll fill an important gap.
Diederich on HNBest part, find out healthy foods.
thirdknife on HN
Objections
Links broken in Firefox
From 2 comments
the link that you provided is very broken in my Firefox (which doesn't mean it's broken for everybody of course)
Zoomla on HNDemo page is broken in Firefox.
thangalin on HN
Server slow or down under load
From 1 comment
Thanks! Agreed and it's on the [todo list](https://github.com/hypertexthero/fn#things-to-do) I also should have figured out what was wrong with memcache before publishing. Server…
hypertexthero on HN
Random username assigned instead of user choice
From 1 comment
Nice, smooth flow to it. It might be nice if rather than assigning you a random string as a username it used something like "Click here to set your user name".
AndrewDucker on HN
Requests
Source code availability
From 1 comment
Good job, this is very cool! Maybe you want to use the triangle, that was featured on HN a few days ago :) -- http://codepen.io/chriscoyier/full/lotjh Is the source available for…
selmnoo on HN
Let users set their username
From 1 comment
Nice, smooth flow to it. It might be nice if rather than assigning you a random string as a username it used something like "Click here to set your user name".
AndrewDucker on HN
Questions
How did it get so many users so quickly?
From 1 comment
This looks great! How did you get so many people using it already? Was it just Hacker News crowd? I recently also built a HN Clone with Flask, this one for Open Data, Data…
filiwickers on HN
Alternatives named
Telescope HN/Reddit-style social news app
From 2 comments
Quick plug: if you want to launch your own HN clone about food or anything else, you might also want to check out Telescope, an open-source HN/Reddit-style social news app:…
sgdesign on HN+1 telescope is incredibly easy to set up for an HN clone. Run in on a heroku cluster for free too. Thats what I'm doing with http://www.hackb.io/. Check it out for a live demo.
timthimmaiah on HN
DataNews Flask HN clone
From 1 comment
This looks great! How did you get so many people using it already? Was it just Hacker News crowd? I recently also built a HN Clone with Flask, this one for Open Data, Data…
filiwickers on HN
CSS triangle codepen example
From 1 comment
Good job, this is very cool! Maybe you want to use the triangle, that was featured on HN a few days ago :) -- http://codepen.io/chriscoyier/full/lotjh Is the source available for…
selmnoo on HN