I've been proceeding with the $jobs sub because it got the most +1's and I do think it's the right call from a number of angles. People were less excited about the mailing lists than I had hoped but perhaps people don't know what they want. 🤷♂️
I should be able to ship$jobs next week - hopefully sooner rather than later.
I haven't reached out to anyone for an AMA this week. I need to get systematic about it and probably do a spreadsheet and reach out to a handful each weekend until someone says Yes to the Request™️.
What about building phone app for Stacker News? Currently the page is harder to use on phone, it doesn't take advantage of any gestures and not many people will install it as Browser "app".
I think Stacker News is ideal for the moments when you have nothing else to do, are sitting somewhere and just have a phone in your hand ;)
I want to do this as an X Prize like thing. Like, we'll put out a $5k in Bitcoin bounty out for each an iOS and Android app. The main thing stopping this from being put out immediately is opening up the API: https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/26
It would be good to have a good maintenance and next development story if you go with the bounty direction. My guess would be that the mobile app would eventually have higher usage than desktop.
Just to brainstorm what I think would be great set of features:
Main list
Be able to swipe on single post to either tip it with sats or to save it for later
Be able to swipe from the side to see menu different substacks, etc. and with my wallet and notifications
Maybe even have bottom bar with "posts", "notifications" and other custom tabs
Post Detail
It would be great if it would have 2 tabs and I could swipe left - right easily between the article (e.g. iframe the actual page) and the comments section
On phone there are more times when it's appropriate to show a dialog or a detail box, e.g. when clicking on someone's name.
Integrations
The app should create an item in my "Share" list, so when I'm e.g. browsing something on twitter, I can click on "share" and it gives me option Stacker News
The app itself should have a share button so I can share SN post somewhere
It could more seamlessly integrate with other Lightning Wallets on your phone, like stacking directly into the wallet :)
Just for inspiration, I really enjoy and still use "Materialistic HN" (github), but I think the app is no longer in play store.
$jobssub because it got the most +1's and I do think it's the right call from a number of angles. People were less excited about the mailing lists than I had hoped but perhaps people don't know what they want. 🤷♂️$jobsnext week - hopefully sooner rather than later.