Akepa
Consumer and social
hacker news client
SHOW HN2015
91points
85comments
#287of 2,565 in 2015
Top 12%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
17 positive, 28 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 9 critical, out of 59 comments about the project. Thread score +0.17.
Design: 8 for, 3 againstPricing: 2 for, 3 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.
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What HN said
What people liked
Polished, beautiful design
From 4 comments
Just downloaded, seems really polished and looks beautiful. I'm currently a user of http://hn.premii.com, I'd make the switch to your app if you can get the 'yesterday's best'…
jfg on HNWow, that's a great looking webapp.
zolokar on HNLooks really clean, beautiful, well thought out and designed. Keep up the good work!
huangc10 on HNThis is really beautiful - you should be proud of your work! Feature request: please let me make the font smaller (and perhaps change the typeface?).
mrmondo on HN
Good reading experience
From 2 comments
Just downloaded, seems really polished and looks beautiful. I'm currently a user of http://hn.premii.com, I'd make the switch to your app if you can get the 'yesterday's best'…
jfg on HNSold. iOS dev myself, and I love the interactions. Commenting with the app now. First feature request: enable readability by default in settings. Cheers!
fullstackdave on HN
Objections
Default font is thin and small; no text size adjustment
From 2 comments
Congrats, seems to work pretty well. I can tell you why I won't be switching away from Minihack [1], though. First, apparently there is no collapsing support. Secondly, and more…
lobster_johnson on HNThis app is really nice and well designed but I think I'll stick with "Hacker News (YC)" by Dharmesh Patel. Here is why: - Your font looks really cool but I can't read it for a…
Matt3o12_ on HN
No Android version
From 2 comments
Android?
guilamu on HNLooks beautiful, disappointed it's iOS focused and there's no Android version. Either way, good job.
dirtybirdnj on HN
No night mode and no collapsing comments
From 1 comment
Congrats, seems to work pretty well. I can tell you why I won't be switching away from Minihack [1], though. First, apparently there is no collapsing support. Secondly, and more…
lobster_johnson on HN
Pro purchase failed receipt validation
From 1 comment
Just attempted to go Pro ($5? Of course! Quality work should be rewarded). As soon as the purchase was complete, the app said it couldn't verify the purchase and to try again at…
toomuchtodo on HN
Requests
Dynamic type / adjustable font size
From 2 comments
We are taking the reading experience very seriously and thus, dynamic type is definitely in the pipeline. As for higher contrast theme, one of the theme in Pro version (the…
taylorling on HNThanks for your comments. Dynamic type is very high on the to-do list. Akepa is a news/text reader first, and we recognize that comfortable reading is the highest priority. Some…
andrewksl on HN
Collapsible comment threads
From 2 comments
Love it, nice work! Feature request: be able to collapse comment threads (on the AlienBlue reddit app it's swipe left to collapse, swipe right to re-expand, but any mechanism…
jordanlev on HNTo be honest, I didn't know you could collapse comments. Since there's not a way to "discover" it in the UI, I figured that it didn't exist. While I'm not sure of the…
alexggordon on HN
Readability mode on by default
From 2 comments
Just downloaded, seems really polished and looks beautiful. I'm currently a user of http://hn.premii.com, I'd make the switch to your app if you can get the 'yesterday's best'…
jfg on HNSold. iOS dev myself, and I love the interactions. Commenting with the app now. First feature request: enable readability by default in settings. Cheers!
fullstackdave on HN
Android version
From 1 comment
Android?
guilamu on HN
Yesterday's best page
From 1 comment
Just downloaded, seems really polished and looks beautiful. I'm currently a user of http://hn.premii.com, I'd make the switch to your app if you can get the 'yesterday's best'…
jfg on HN
Questions
How are login credentials stored
From 1 comment
Since the official API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API) does not support authentication, how are you collecting and storing auth credentials for login/posting?
minimaxir on HN
Does the app phone home
From 1 comment
Excellent, excellent. Does it phone home? That is, does it connect strictly to the HN and only websites explicitly opened by the user? Or does it talk to something else on the…
eps on HN
How long did it take to build
From 1 comment
Just downloaded, seems really polished and looks beautiful. I'm currently a user of http://hn.premii.com, I'd make the switch to your app if you can get the 'yesterday's best'…
jfg on HN
Alternatives named
MiniHack
From 2 comments
Congrats, seems to work pretty well. I can tell you why I won't be switching away from Minihack [1], though. First, apparently there is no collapsing support. Secondly, and more…
lobster_johnson on HNIt's great to see another app for HN that allows posting. I used to use Hacker News (YC) by Dharmesh Patel and was very happy with it but it is read only. I tried news:yc which…
weinzierl on HN
Hacker News (YC) by Dharmesh Patel
From 1 comment
This app is really nice and well designed but I think I'll stick with "Hacker News (YC)" by Dharmesh Patel. Here is why: - Your font looks really cool but I can't read it for a…
Matt3o12_ on HN
hn.premii.com
From 1 comment
Just downloaded, seems really polished and looks beautiful. I'm currently a user of http://hn.premii.com, I'd make the switch to your app if you can get the 'yesterday's best'…
jfg on HN
HackerNode
From 1 comment
I have used HackerNode for the longest time. It has some weird UI elements but for some reason I like the way it uses the screen space, all the other seem to involve a lot of…
verelo on HN