alt Hacker NewsI'm working on https://techposts.eu - Hacker News for Europe.
Focused on all the interesting and exciting happenings in tech here, from AI to defence to deeptech, and posting the most interesting job openings too. Did you know Europe had two space launch startups? I didn't until I started this project!
Feedback very welcome :)
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Ooh I like this! I love Hacker news and Lobsters but they're both very US centric, seem great to have a European one.
UI is very nice and simple, one tiny bit of feedback is that a 'guidelines' page would be worthwhile, especially while it's new! I thought I'd post my own project on the site - sometimes that's a little bit of a no-no though, and I couldn't find any guidelines to steer me towards what types of things to share, etc.
Edit: Tiny extra feedback, is upvoting something immediately changes the rankings in the browser. It's pretty impressive speedwise, but especially if you're a couple pages in, you can bump something off of the page you're on which makes it a little weird to do something like 'upvote article and then check the comments'.
Great idea, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this initiative.
I believe that the main challenge would be to get more traction and build a community. Hope you find a way to encourage as many people as possible to join the website.
My very minor nitpick -- I would add some kind of background colour to the main post list, something like #FAFAFA looks fine to me.
The comment page here on mobile
It shifts out of the screen on the left cutting off the comments. (The problem is probably how you deal with the long url or not deal with it)
I noticed that you’re using the favicon from Vercel, or that Vercel is using your icon. :))
Great initiative. I was confused by the comment section design. The style of the metadata is not distinct enough from the real comment. And it tooks me too long to understand that the responses to comments were not citations.
How do you get users to your site? I always felt these products are the hardest to build, but probably the most rewarding ones.
Good work, but the headlines are still in „newspaper“ style and not in hacker news style
Love to see EU specific. How do you get the jobs posts?
If you could add API on top of it, and make it compatible with HN clients, it would be very nice!
great! singuped! Just please - get rid of that all blue and underlined links. Its hell to read.
First post:
> Show TP: TreatyHopper - Pay less taxes
> Treaty shopping is a tax strategy where companies route profits through intermediary countries with favorable tax treaties to minimize overall tax liability.
Can't make this up x)
very good start! I hate to be that guy, but I'd like if you had an imprint and privacy policy on the site ;)
Site needs better UI without a doubt.
Copy HN UI as its. no one cares.
Good luck
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Color scheme is a bit harsh for me. I understand you're going for EU colours, but maybe a softer background like #fcfcfc and a more muted blue would be easier on the eyes?