Ever wanted to follow specific people on Hacker News? (without having to go to their individual Submitted and Threads pages every day!)<p>If so, try this: http://beta.fedang.com. andymorris and I spent the last 24 hours slapping it together and we're hoping to get a few users to put it through it's paces.<p>It's only 24 hours old and will probably fall over if more than 20 people start using it. If we can get it working solidly for HN and a few of us seem to like it, then we plan on making it work for other sites too in the future.<p>EDIT: Also interested in feature suggestions. We're thinking RSS for the feed, and tracking replies to your own comments, no matter who they're from.
I just added an RSS feed to the site that contains all the posts from people you follow: beta.fedang.com/rss/<username><p>This is a public feed, so anyone can see who you're following - I plan on making this an optional setting if there's too much of uproar about that.
are you using <a href="http://api.ihackernews.com" rel="nofollow">http://api.ihackernews.com</a> ? Right now, I'm using it to fetch the front page for my little hn smashup. Polling every 4min or so. Thanks to @ronnieroller, <a href="http://twitter.com/ronnieroller" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/ronnieroller</a>, for that little piece of niceness.
I'm not sure this is what we really need, considering that the HN hive mind is pretty smart and that anyway big name authors are already upvoted just because of their names often.
Very neat! I have a dozen or so people in mind I would love to add.. but I don't have the patience to go and find their exact usernames.<p>So far I have PG and matt_cutts (google)<p>Anybody would like to share their list for easy picking? :P
Great idea! But why don't we make it simple? I just made Open Google Docs List, put your HN name,link and twitter link.<p>Fell free to join the list everybody is welcomed, no carma points are required.<p>Here is the link: <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApUjBkHSxmB1dHdMdlNwX2QtbnFsa1lkNG13VUxpY0E&hl=en&authkey=CMP8kxQ#gid=0" rel="nofollow">https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ApUjBkHSxmB1dHdMdlN...</a>
Very cool! However, it didn't return my activity (egomaniac that I am), but worked perfectly for other users.<p>Just a minor nitpick: this project would profit from OpenID/Oauth/whatever sign-on. There is really no reason why I need to create a "real" user account with a username...
Tried to go to the feed while logged out. Yuck:<p><a href="http://beta.fedang.com/accounts/login/?next=/feed" rel="nofollow">http://beta.fedang.com/accounts/login/?next=/feed</a>