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Show HN: my weekend project, whatsnerdy.com

31 points by hanzenlim 14y ago

Jaco 14y ago
Awesome website! Thanks for sharing :-)
thedudemabry 14y ago
Haha, that's awesome. I hope you keep it up because it's my new home page!
snaveint 14y ago
A simple, yet extremely useful site. Love it; I can see myself regularly using this.
- hanzenlim 14y ago
  thnx
railswarrior 14y ago
Hey nice compilation mate , only thing that it misses is the discussion forum .Would love to see that :) Well that's why i keep coming to Hacker News or reddit and keeps you engaged . Guys at Hacker News discussion forums are one the best people to talk to regarding technical topics .
- hanzenlim 14y ago
  thnx for the input mate, ill try to add discussion forum in the future.
sangupta 14y ago
Congrats - this is just so awesome! How about adding an RSS feed and tweaking the UI a bit to make it more usable - for the specky ones like me :)
amirf 14y ago
Great job! All you need now is a better UI for mobiles and I'm sold :) What web technology did you choose for this?
- hanzenlim 14y ago
  I used ruby on rails for backend, then xpath to parse through each sites for links
bilbobaggie 14y ago
This is seriously going to improve my quality of life :)
mforsberg 14y ago
I really like the sources and amount of content you picked out. Good choice of a domain as well. But like sangupta and amirf I think you should improve the UI a bit; maybe have a go with twitter's bootstrap? One thing I really would like is that you skip the two columns and narrowed it down do one column and worked a bit on the navigation so that it's on one line or grouped in some shape or form.
- emp_ 14y ago
  When we see people complaining of the excess of Bootstrap sites around, they tend to forget what they would feel/look/be like before such frameworks existed.
srik 14y ago
Nice work. It would be nice to have sortable sources and comments, like popurls does. (Although popurls doesnt have hn comments, which is painful) Also, have you considered eliminating links that have been duplicated over different sources.
mgurlitz 14y ago
Very cool site. Looks like you might have a Unicode problem: "Show HN: My Github rÃ©sumÃ©"
brianfryer 14y ago
Is there something that you can do about the floating social bar? On iOS, it hovers over some of the content :-( http://imgur.com/hwmWN http://imgur.com/hwmWN Other than that, though... YAY!
- hanzenlim 14y ago
  thnx for letting me know, ill fix it asap :)
  - autophil 14y ago
    The floating social bar is still there on my iOS, and it's disruptive. Please fix. Great site otherwise.
    - hanzenlim 14y ago
      fixed it, should work now. sorry it took me a while :O
eatitraw 14y ago
Added to bookmarks! It may become my favourite website for procrastination. :) What I don't like is two-column layout: it makes title boxes have uneven height. Even both columns have different weights. It would be nice to see numbered list for sites with numbered postings - like HN(of course, if it's not by design, for example, if your project uses custom ranking and selection systems for publications).
awef 14y ago
Fix the encoding, add a favicon and change the font from Times and I'd probably use it :)
johnnymonster 14y ago
I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while now. Any thoughts on open sourcing it, putting it up on github?
skizm 14y ago
This reminds me of jimmyr.com which is how I came across reddit/digg/hackernews in the first place. Not sure how I came across jimmyr.com in the first place though :\
- johnnymonster 14y ago
  or popurls.com
sktrdie 14y ago
If you keep it ads free I'll use it. Please remove the left sidebar
Sharma 14y ago
Cool site! My suggestion for more features/changes: 1. Social share bar for each link. 2. Finding common links/stories in all those tech sites. 3. Probably a tab view? 4. Search feature!
madmax108 14y ago
Love the idea! :) Would be even cooler if I could add/remove sites and reorder them ...

31 points by hanzenlim 14y ago

Jaco 14y ago

Awesome website! Thanks for sharing :-)

thedudemabry 14y ago

Haha, that's awesome. I hope you keep it up because it's my new home page!

snaveint 14y ago

A simple, yet extremely useful site. Love it; I can see myself regularly using this.

hanzenlim 14y ago
thnx

railswarrior 14y ago

Hey nice compilation mate , only thing that it misses is the discussion forum .Would love to see that :) Well that's why i keep coming to Hacker News or reddit and keeps you engaged . Guys at Hacker News discussion forums are one the best people to talk to regarding technical topics .

hanzenlim 14y ago
thnx for the input mate, ill try to add discussion forum in the future.

sangupta 14y ago

Congrats - this is just so awesome! How about adding an RSS feed and tweaking the UI a bit to make it more usable - for the specky ones like me :)

amirf 14y ago

Great job! All you need now is a better UI for mobiles and I'm sold :) What web technology did you choose for this?

hanzenlim 14y ago
I used ruby on rails for backend, then xpath to parse through each sites for links

bilbobaggie 14y ago

This is seriously going to improve my quality of life :)

mforsberg 14y ago

I really like the sources and amount of content you picked out. Good choice of a domain as well. But like sangupta and amirf I think you should improve the UI a bit; maybe have a go with twitter's bootstrap? One thing I really would like is that you skip the two columns and narrowed it down do one column and worked a bit on the navigation so that it's on one line or grouped in some shape or form.

emp_ 14y ago
When we see people complaining of the excess of Bootstrap sites around, they tend to forget what they would feel/look/be like before such frameworks existed.

srik 14y ago

Nice work. It would be nice to have sortable sources and comments, like popurls does. (Although popurls doesnt have hn comments, which is painful) Also, have you considered eliminating links that have been duplicated over different sources.

mgurlitz 14y ago

Very cool site. Looks like you might have a Unicode problem: "Show HN: My Github rÃ©sumÃ©"

brianfryer 14y ago

Is there something that you can do about the floating social bar? On iOS, it hovers over some of the content :-( http://imgur.com/hwmWN http://imgur.com/hwmWN Other than that, though... YAY!

hanzenlim 14y ago
thnx for letting me know, ill fix it asap :)
- autophil 14y ago
  The floating social bar is still there on my iOS, and it's disruptive. Please fix. Great site otherwise.
  - hanzenlim 14y ago
    fixed it, should work now. sorry it took me a while :O

eatitraw 14y ago

Added to bookmarks! It may become my favourite website for procrastination. :) What I don't like is two-column layout: it makes title boxes have uneven height. Even both columns have different weights. It would be nice to see numbered list for sites with numbered postings - like HN(of course, if it's not by design, for example, if your project uses custom ranking and selection systems for publications).

awef 14y ago

Fix the encoding, add a favicon and change the font from Times and I'd probably use it :)

johnnymonster 14y ago

I've been thinking about doing something like this for a while now. Any thoughts on open sourcing it, putting it up on github?

skizm 14y ago

This reminds me of jimmyr.com which is how I came across reddit/digg/hackernews in the first place. Not sure how I came across jimmyr.com in the first place though :\

johnnymonster 14y ago
or popurls.com

sktrdie 14y ago

If you keep it ads free I'll use it. Please remove the left sidebar

Sharma 14y ago

Cool site! My suggestion for more features/changes: 1. Social share bar for each link. 2. Finding common links/stories in all those tech sites. 3. Probably a tab view? 4. Search feature!

madmax108 14y ago

Love the idea! :) Would be even cooler if I could add/remove sites and reorder them ...