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This site was made for fun by me, Matt Bell (mappum), and is not officially affiliated with Y Combinator or Hacker News.

The development stack I used includes Node.js, Express, Socket.IO, Mongoose/MongoDB, Backbone, Bootstrap, and phantomjs. The node hosting is provided by Nodejitsu, and I am hosting the scraper/DB server on a VPS hosted by VPSNode.

There are still quite a few things I would like to add to the site, inluding:

  • Interactivity (logging in, upvoting, commenting, submitting)
  • Real-time updating
  • Viewing comment threads
  • Ability to view all content, not just top 60 posts
  • Public API

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, feel free to email me at mappum@gmail.com

If you want to contribute (excuse my messy code), you can fork the code on Github. Also, it would be awesome if you followed me on twitter: Follow @mappum

If you like my work, it would be nice if you could chip in a buck or two so I can afford to buy ramen and continue existing:

Thanks!