HN Showcase(hnshowcase.com)

158 pointsby cheeaunvor 14 Jahren27 comments

http://www.hnshowcase.com/

15 comments

tejaswiyvor 14 Jahren

Just last week, I was in a slump and thought of looking for side-project inspiration by searching for all the ShowHN posts. This just works great because when you start bombarding your brain with lots of new ideas, you'd be surprised what you come up with :)

I understand it'd be a little more work, but how about manually curating and featuring projects ?

ssongvor 14 Jahren

I don't have the bandwidth right now to manually curate. However, this sounds like a good idea for someone to do as a dedicated tumblr/posterous blog.

mixmastamykvor 14 Jahren

How does a site get on this showcase? Scraping HN or manual intervention?

ssongvor 14 Jahren

It uses the search API (http://www.hnsearch.com/api) and does a little bit of sanitizing to remove "Show HN" from the title and find the URL in the post.

It seems like the site isn't returning any new results right now, and I'll investigate when I get a chance. Usually things are up there realtime.

alistervor 14 Jahren

Is there a way to search for a particular showcased site?

(In case you're wondering why: I would like to find my own site on the showcase site without browsing through all the pages.)

ssongvor 14 Jahren

There isn't a way right now, but I may add it in the next update. Having a perma link to a project is tricky as the projects shift back when new projects get posted.

sicularsvor 14 Jahren

This looks awesome. Great visualization and use of phantomjs. It seems like everyone loves to re-interpret HN. I'm no different, http://hnfluence.com.

collisioncodevor 14 Jahren

I think the scrolling page numbers isn't the best. I would go stick to the traditional 1|2|3|4|5|...|29|30

ajasminvor 14 Jahren

I would prefer infinite scrolling as on e.g. http://lookbook.nu and http://images.bing.com/search?q=cat

laundrysheet1vor 14 Jahren

This is great for most of the Show HN stuff that never makes the front page!

joesungavor 14 Jahren

Great concept -- and I'm all about increasing the exposure of startups. :)

felipellrochavor 14 Jahren

Love the concept! Great work! :)

hybridknightvor 14 Jahren

great!

gesvor 14 Jahren

Cool. Did you use HTML5 canvas for the snapshots?

ssongvor 14 Jahren

Nope. It's using PhantomJS (http://phantomjs.org/).

zacharydangervor 14 Jahren

Pretty cool. Is there an RSS/Atom feed I could subscribe to?

ssongvor 14 Jahren

Not yet. I'll try to include that in the next update.

felipellrochavor 14 Jahren

Wouldn't it be great is pg would link this page from HN itself?

duckvor 14 Jahren

Great idea... bookmarked! Great how you include the # votes and comments on each one.

Kilimanjarovor 14 Jahren

This should be part of the front page or I'll soon forget about it.

pcopleyvor 14 Jahren

This looks like absolute trash in IE9.

ssongvor 14 Jahren

Thanks for the feedback! When I wrote this, I only tested it on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. For the next version, I'm planning to use twitter bootstrap, so hopefully the compatibility will be better.

pcopleyvor 14 Jahren

Downvoted for telling the truth? Come on.

http://i.imgur.com/P11Ai.png

corin_vor 14 Jahren

I'd suggest probably downvoted for telling the truth rudely is a more accurate explanation.

rokhayakebevor 14 Jahren

I did not downvote you, and I almost upvoted you again, but you could have said it better. Be nice.

ganavor 14 Jahren

I think the downvote was for using IE!

ssongvor 14 Jahren

Thanks for posting this :) I wrote HN Showcase as a weekend project last summer. Glad to see this being used. I'm going to try to push an update in the near future.