I would agree. While not quite what you’re looking for, I recently built a site, RNKFlow.com (Rank Flow), to bring in multiple tech/science feeds including HN and Product Hunt to pull in more interesting posts. There is a filter option so can search across all feeds and only see what you’re interested in. Also an alerting function where you can add keyword tags and get an email digest. And Categories to limit posts only Robotics or Show HN/PH as an example. So not quite what you’re going after, but maybe a better overall experience for you.
Thanks for sharing! Definitely like the ability to filter and incorporating multiple sources although from what I could see stories are all from HN. One thing I will say though is the UI is challenging to use on mobile, would recommend the layout used for things like comments that you see on Harmonic/lobst.er. Very nice project keep it up!
Thank you for the feedback. It’s a fair point about feeling like it’s mostly based on HN. I started it thinking it would be cool to have a Digg style HN feed. I remember how alive Digg felt in a static web world. I quickly realized as I broke the feed down by categories there wasn’t much content in some areas and started adding feeds that could bring in more articles I liked. The challenge is not to bring in too much where the site just becomes overwhelming. Brutalist is a good example. It’s has a huge list of great sources, but my brain turns off as soon as the scroll bar never ends. Currently, I’m pulling from HN, Algolia, Product Hunt, and arXiv. Appreciate your point about comments. I do agree it’s not ideal, and I’ve been tossing around what the right path is. Thanks for the reply!