I understand your sentiment but I thought exactly the opposite way when I decided to build the app. I thought: "Man, this site is cool! And it's so simple that I could adapt the code for my Hacker News reader to work with it!".

Of course one could argue: "Why on earth did you need a Hacker News app? It's so simple...". And for that, my friend, I don't know the answer. I just did hahah