How to Create a Simple Hacker News Reader with Qt Network and JSON

[vivaladav]

http://blog.davidecoppola.com/2016/11/qt-network-and-json-example-simple-hacker-news-reader/

[vivaladav]

Hi, I am the author of this tutorial and I would like to mention that while working on it I realised that a proper Hacker News reader would be an interesting project to work on and I might decide to go for it if enough people are interested.

Would you use it on your desktop computer (Linux, OS X and/or Windows)?

If yes, which features would you like to see in the first version?

[my_ghola → vivaladav]

Android version. Notifications for followed subjects and followed users' comments. Offline mode. Links to the url in the Archive, Google cache, etc. Maybe a tag or icon if the url is a video, pdf, etc or favicon from the website. A sidebar with a list of all the urls posted in the comments for easy.

[blub → vivaladav]

The possibility to configure interesting topics and having the client check in the background if anything relevant pops up.

If it's open source I could try to add the feature myself.

[pyprism → vivaladav]

Bookmarking , theme

[isfield]

Any idea's worthwhile as a personal learning project. From my perspective I wouldn't use it, simply because the web page is so efficient it even works great on my low powered windows phone.

[biocomputation → isfield]

We must be using the same phone.

[d33]

Why would anyone prefer to use it instead of the browser?

[vivaladav → d33]

a desktop client could offer more features and potentially a better navigation.

That's just my vision though, that's why I am asking if other people would be interested in something like that.

[pritambaral → vivaladav]

Quite a lot of those features and the better navigation can be done with a web app too, which would be simpler to install than a desktop client.

[achlamabach → vivaladav]

Why not consume the RSS feed?!

[biocomputation → vivaladav]

>> a desktop client could offer more features and potentially a better navigation.

I doubt this would matter to anyone. No way this needs to be a desktop app.

[duiker101 → d33]

To learn something new?