HackerWeb
A simple and readable Hacker News app
hackerwebapp.com Source App StoreEntertainment & Media / News & Media
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- None yet
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- Public revenue
- Undisclosed
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- Entry price
- $2.99/mo
- Lower than 85% of peersNiche median $8/mo
- Launched
- 10y ago
- 2016-03-01 · Est.
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Launches, search & content, referrals, promotions- Kinda wished that there's like a rotate-able version, maybe snap every 15deg. If point to north, can't see the front side of MBS sadly. 引用帖 @yadong_xie： Make it online, check it at https://www.yadongxie.com/lab/singapore
@cheeaun · 2026-11-07 · 42 likes · 2 reposts · 2,800 views
- Not bad. But ArtScience Museum, Apple Store and Esplanade looks kinda wrong. 引用帖 @nal_uh： Marina bay sand coming to Anywhere. Try it here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/anywhere-your-only-map/id6823839358
@cheeaun · 2026-11-06 · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 1,985 views
Launched on Show HN (1 pts)Launch
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Dec 13, 2020 · 5y agoLaunch page
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A simple and readable Hacker News app
Mar 10, 2016 · 10y agoLaunch page
Launched on Show HN (6 pts · 7 comments)Launch
HackerWeb – A simple HN iOS app built with React Native
Mar 9, 2016 · 10y agoLaunch page
Launched on App StoreLaunch
HackerWeb is a super-clean Hacker News app built for maximum readability and has a lean set of features to optimize the reading experience. It’s created specifically with iOS design guidelines in mind, so it feels native and blends well wit
Mar 1, 2016 · 10y agoLaunch page
Third-party reviews & case dossiers
Acquisition breakdowns, engineer reviews & open-source metrics- Post excerpt:
- Another HN Desktop client: https://github.com/spennihana/HackerDesktop Last weekend user westoncb posted[1] an app built in kotlin/swing[2]. A comment there mentioned that an electron app might be an interesting alternative, and here is the result of this last week's hackings. It uses the firebase API underneath and elm/electron to interact with kotlin via t
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Store data
- Rating
- ★ 5.0010 ratings
- New ratings last mo
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- Price & IAP
- $2.99IAP data not synced
- First released
- 2016-03-0129 MB
Bug fixes
HackerWeb is a super-clean Hacker News app built for maximum readability and has a lean set of features to optimize the reading experience. It’s created specifically with iOS design guidelines in mind, so it feels native and blends well with the operating system. It has a simple set of features that are usually invisible: - Dual Web and Comments tabs for easy switching between the story’s web page and the list of comments - Revolutionary comments thread UI for easy navigation, with smart collapsing to prevent being overwhelmed by too many comments - Automatic Dark mode, respecting the system’s appearance settings. - Smart indentations and formatting for comments, complementing the existing limited formatting from Hacker News. - Automatic syntax highlighting for code blocks in comments, with best-effort programming language detection. - Allow interactions like upvoting and replying, which opens up web view with login information and sessions stored in itself, instead of the app. - Comment’s “Thread view” to list all parent comments of a comment, on a flat list, for easy reading instead of manually drilling down the nested comments. - “Share as Image” for comments, which allows sharing of a specific comment, optionally including the parent comments and/or story, as an image. HackerWeb is an unofficial Hacker News client, built with React Native and Expo. This is a passion side project for learning and experimenting ideas. Since 2012. Open-sourced: https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb-native-2
Store assets, rating histograms, install tiers, and screenshots are synced from Apple App Store, Google Play, and Chrome Web Store.
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Domain authority —Domain registered 2012-11-24
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Public pricing: 2.99 USDRaw source text; structured plans are extracted after website capture.
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