About Page Link: <a href="https://hn.boxpiper.com/about" rel="nofollow">https://hn.boxpiper.com/about</a><p>Box Piper Hacker News aggregates news with a focus on computer science, technology and entrepreneurship, etc. from <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/</a> and presents it in a much better way.<p>Stories are presented in a card image layout, which helps users to understand the relevance of an article and whether is it worth reading or not.<p>The top 10 stories are presented in a story mode similar to social media sites such as Snapchat/Instagram/WhatsApp/Facebook user stories. Also stories is bifurcated in two parts, top 10 and others. Those who wants to focus only top stories of the day, can use it.<p>HTTP links are highlighted with a sign, which indicates that the website loads over an insecure connection. It may redirect to an HTTPS connection, but user discretion is required.<p>A user profile page with recent activities is displayed which helps users to understand more about the author who publishes a story.<p>Right now, only 100 stories are presented but it'll extend in the future along with the source of News channels.<p>Keep Reading.<p>Edit :<p>- Here's the screen recording of the app: <a href="https://wormhole.app/wldZk#A4vhwU31pSMXMtOFGgbE8w" rel="nofollow">https://wormhole.app/wldZk#A4vhwU31pSMXMtOFGgbE8w</a> (File link will be deleted in 24 hours or after 100 downloads)<p>- App Demo in GIF format: <a href="https://ibb.co/mt5TyM6" rel="nofollow">https://ibb.co/mt5TyM6</a>
Is the website open source by chance? I'm going to build my own HN frontend this summer.<p>Edit: Emailed OP:<p>>Thanks for reaching out.<p>>It's written in ReactJS, and using <a href="https://chakra-ui.com/" rel="nofollow">https://chakra-ui.com/</a> for components. Hosted on Netlify.<p>>Serverless api written in NodeJS. Running in Vercel.
Image extractor for every post is written in NodeJs. Running in Heroku.<p>>I didn't open source the code, because I'll sell the app to anyone interested in it. Let me know how I can help.