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Title

Hacker Bar

Bundle ID

com.mohawkapps.hacker-bar

Description

TODO

Tagline (non-appstore metadata)

"The new way to browse Hacker News on your Mac"

Keywords

hackernews, hn, ycombinator, yc, articles, news, hacker news, reddit, slashdot, techmeme, entrepreneur, paul graham, venture,

Support URL

http://www.mohawkapps.com/apps/hacker-bar

Marketing URL

http://www.hackerbarapp.com

App Sandbox Entitlement Usage Information

com.apple.security.network.client

Usage Information

Hacker Bar makes a request to a server in order to get data about what to display in the menu bar item

Review Notes

The app will ask to start on login when it opens for the first time. The user can decline this. The app shows all the articles on the front page of the YCombinator website (https://news.ycombinator.com/) and refreshes by default every 5 minutes. Each menu item shows the upvote count, the title, and the comment count (as well as whether or not the item is an ad on their front page). You can click the comment count to be taken to the comments page in your default browser, and clicking anywhere else will take you to the article link. The system then puts a little checkbox next to the article indicating that you've opened the page.

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