Show HN: my first app turns Twitter into a news aggregator
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2550860Hey everyone,
Common advice for inexperienced hackers suggests "scratching an itch." Like many others here, I spent too much time on HN, Google Reader and Twitter searching for interesting stuff, so I decided to write an app that brings interesting links to you with no other distractions.
HighFive uses Twitter and bit.ly's APIs to find interesting links in your timeline. When you log in, you'll see a group of five links with voting arrows. No HN comments or RSS feeds with hundreds of links--just a few interesting articles that you can read, then get back to work.
HighFive was built using Python and Django, and it lives at http://acompa.net/highfive. This is my first app (and I only started using Python last year), so any comments or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks, everyone!
-Alejandro
tl;dr -- Check out my first web app at http://acompa.net/highfive