HN Showcase

http://www.hnshowcase.com/

by cheeaun • 14 years ago

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ges• 14 years ago

Cool. Did you use HTML5 canvas for the snapshots?

ssong7• 14 years ago

Nope. It's using PhantomJS (http://phantomjs.org/).

zacharydanger• 14 years ago

Pretty cool. Is there an RSS/Atom feed I could subscribe to?

ssong7• 14 years ago

Not yet. I'll try to include that in the next update.

felipellrocha2• 14 years ago

Wouldn't it be great is pg would link this page from HN itself?

duck• 14 years ago

Great idea... bookmarked! Great how you include the # votes and comments on each one.

Kilimanjaro• 14 years ago

This should be part of the front page or I'll soon forget about it.

pcopley2• 14 years ago

This looks like absolute trash in IE9.

pcopley2• 14 years ago

Downvoted for telling the truth? Come on.

http://i.imgur.com/P11Ai.png

corin_• 14 years ago

I'd suggest probably downvoted for telling the truth rudely is a more accurate explanation.

rokhayakebe• 14 years ago

I did not downvote you, and I almost upvoted you again, but you could have said it better. Be nice.

gana• 14 years ago

I think the downvote was for using IE!

ssong7• 14 years ago

Thanks for the feedback! When I wrote this, I only tested it on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. For the next version, I'm planning to use twitter bootstrap, so hopefully the compatibility will be better.

ssong7• 14 years ago

Thanks for posting this :) I wrote HN Showcase as a weekend project last summer. Glad to see this being used. I'm going to try to push an update in the near future.

siculars• 14 years ago

This looks awesome. Great visualization and use of phantomjs. It seems like everyone loves to re-interpret HN. I'm no different, http://hnfluence.com.

collisioncode• 14 years ago

I think the scrolling page numbers isn't the best. I would go stick to the traditional 1|2|3|4|5|...|29|30

ajasmin• 14 years ago

I would prefer infinite scrolling as on e.g. http://lookbook.nu and http://images.bing.com/search?q=cat

felipellrocha2• 14 years ago

Love the concept! Great work! :)

joesunga• 14 years ago

Great concept -- and I'm all about increasing the exposure of startups. :)

tejaswiy• 14 years ago

Just last week, I was in a slump and thought of looking for side-project inspiration by searching for all the ShowHN posts. This just works great because when you start bombarding your brain with lots of new ideas, you'd be surprised what you come up with :)

I understand it'd be a little more work, but how about manually curating and featuring projects ?

ssong7• 14 years ago

I don't have the bandwidth right now to manually curate. However, this sounds like a good idea for someone to do as a dedicated tumblr/posterous blog.

alister• 14 years ago

Is there a way to search for a particular showcased site?

(In case you're wondering why: I would like to find my own site on the showcase site without browsing through all the pages.)

ssong7• 14 years ago

There isn't a way right now, but I may add it in the next update. Having a perma link to a project is tricky as the projects shift back when new projects get posted.

mixmastamyk• 14 years ago

How does a site get on this showcase? Scraping HN or manual intervention?

ssong7• 14 years ago

It uses the search API (http://www.hnsearch.com/api) and does a little bit of sanitizing to remove "Show HN" from the title and find the URL in the post.

It seems like the site isn't returning any new results right now, and I'll investigate when I get a chance. Usually things are up there realtime.

hybridknight• 14 years ago

great!

laundrysheet1• 14 years ago

This is great for most of the Show HN stuff that never makes the front page!

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