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Comment by uxcolumbo | Hacker News Reader

Nice. Did you build this? If so, what's the tech stack you used?

I like the interface - compact and fast.

Thanks! Yeah, I’m one of the founders. It’s Nextjs on Supabase. We launched the news clustering just yesterday so I thought it would be nice to get some stealth HN feedback for it.

We are planning to launch an API (rss style) for the news next week where you can get temporal clusters and everything. Imagine having full access to all of Twitter trending but across all news sources.

We are trying to filter clickbait, SEO spam as effectively as possible while keeping nuance to the dataset.

Please sign up for an account or follow us on twitter if you would like to stay in the loop.

Genuine question: I wonder why you didn't think to disclose your relationship with the product? I notice this a lot, and it ruins my perspective of the product. Haven't you seen people start their comments with "full disclosure, I made this" type sentences.

Was it a relevant suggestion for you? If yes, then what benefit does the disclosure provide? If not, then downvote and say so?

In this particular case, I think halotrope just didn't think the dislosure was necessary. They have a link to the website in their profile and aren't trying to hide the affiliation.

Full disclosure: I'm not related to halotrope in any way nor to the website in question.

Not the OP but yes, I think it's tacky. If you're shamelessly plug your own product you should say so.

Since you asked for some, here's my immediate 2 cents:

Please change the slide out on the left to be visible permanently.

I have 1920 pixels of horizontal screen real estate, and the page is quite literally half empty whitespace anyway. For what conceivable reason is that menu on the left a hidden-by-default slide out? It even hides pertinent stock information.

Also concerning the stock information, please add some whitespace margin on the bottom. Chrome displays URL information on the bottom left of the window when hovering links and it overlaps and obstructs visibility of whatever stock ends up displayed at the bottom left of the window.

If you add stocks to your watchlist it will populate the empty whitespace with a table containing Watchlist Movers.

Thank you, the feedback is appreciated and makes a lot of sense! I have added a little pin icon on the bottom left of the sidebar to keep it open.

Thank you for the whitespace suggestion too, will check that tomorrow.

I like this, is your quote data live or delayed? Sparklines in your watchlist would be most welcome, plus better charts in general; candlesticks, range % between two points etc.

Thank you! We have realtime data but IEX only, sorting the contract work out for at the moment to get tick-level realtime for US equities

The sparklines and better charts are being worked on. We hope to get a new version out early April, right now focussing on the API and Chat functionality.

I just want to say "me too", the site is great. I rarely use twitter, but will follow you.

But dumb question, what do I follow ? :)

Thank you! Sorry, lol. @markets_sh

Have you used Modo News?

It would be nice if your interface sorted the sources by bias and let you side between different summaries. In the upper right corner of Modo you can swap between timeline view (seeing past incarnations of a story as it progresses, or lean view that let’s you see various bias.)

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