Yet Another Hacker News iPad Reader

A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to read Hackernews with my iPad [although some HackerNews readers see iPad’s Safari good enough for the task (which requires opening new tabs for comments,  lots of copy & pasting URLs to share and  etc)], I searched for an application. Eventually, I found two, which are both paid applications. Since this applications is in my seven nights category (which is something I can code in seven consequent nights without disrupting my day work), I decided to code it myself.

After 3 nights the application was ready for the submission. It got rejected since I didn’t read the iPad User guidelines carefully (actually I just skimmed it in 5 minutes). The rejection reason is “You can’t show more than one popover at the same time”. I fixed the problem, and it is available in the app store (App Store link)

I will probably change the default RSS feed of Hackernews which only show top 30 posts. Probably something on GAE, and maybe a simple my favorites kind of thing.