HackerWeb is one of my most favorite side projects.
It’s yet another mobile-friendly minimalistic client for Hacker News. It’s a web-only client for the past few years, and now I’ve built an iOS client, which turns out to be my first ever iOS app publicly available on the App Store! ?
The backstory
On June 2011, I made a statement:
Making a web app feels (exactly) like a native app sure takes effort. Still, it’s doable.
On October 2011, I was playing around with -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch, introduced with the release of iOS 5.
On Feb 2012, I released HackerWeb (known as “HNmobile” at that time). I tried to coin the phrase “Looks and feels like a native iOS app” for the webapp. I believe that HackerWeb is the first ever web app that tries to ambitiously cross the boundary between native and web.
On March 2012, I wrote an article on how I built it. It got submitted toHacker News and to my surprise, appeared on the front page.
Feedback has been remarkable.
Behold @cheeaun ‘s very native looking Hacker News mobile web app. http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/#/
Accepting the challenge
Designing the logo
Building with React Native
Web and native
Launching on the App Store
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