HN Comments Owl Reviews

Sidekick Browser Reviews

1. Asef Dian

   | CEO at Bitslay | over 2 years ago
   So many bugs to fix

   The idea of a productivity based browser is great but since this browser is still new, it has trouble with a lot of things. Sometimes it doesn't open a new tab when i try, sometimes web apps don't open, and overall its not a smooth experience that i could recommend to people

   🏁 Competitors: Vivaldi, Mozilla Firefox, Brave

   👍 Pros:    Everything you need is in the homepage|Looks really pretty|Focuses on productivity|Has control over ram usage and data|A search option that searches all throughout your history, bookmarks, web and everything

   👎 Cons:    A buggy performance|Short term freezes|Might need some time getting used to the web apps

HN Comments Owl mentions (8)

• Ask HN: Which browser add-on for Hacker News do you use?

  > None, though I might be swayed if there were something that muted or, failing that, blocked users. Comments Owl for Hacker News: https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 days ago

• Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users

  Comments Owl for Hacker News [1] adds a mute button to comments and user profiles which lets you do this. If you want to roll a quick version of your own, once you've identified rows containing comments you want to block, you need to hide all subsequent rows which have a higher indent. I see there's now an "indent" attribute in the DOM which would make this even easier. [1] - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• The UI of Hacker News Is Perfect

  Definitely not perfect. The default "collapse comment" buttons being right-aligned is pure insanity, IMO. They should be left-aligned so they're all in line with each other as you scroll down the page, so you barely have to move your mouse. Fortunately this extension[1] takes care of that. [1] https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl/ Also, proper hyperlink... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Ask HN: How do you keep up with replies to comment threads on HN?

  For keeping track of replies to my own comments, as previously mentioned there's the threads link at the top of the page, as well as https://hnreplies.com/ and https://hnnotify.xyz/. You can also use https://hnrss.github.io/ or http://hnapp.com/ to make RSS feeds of various types. If there's a post that is particularly interesting and you want to be able to keep abreast of new comments in it, I've found the HN... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Which Extension brings the best out of HN?

  I like HN Comments Owl: https://github.com/insin/hn-comments-owl. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

Sidekick Browser mentions (3)

• Making Twitter likes/bookmarks backup tool as side quest of offline first browser (that saves everything)

  I've been developing frontend in-memory graph DB / state manager for 1) replication 2) incremental sync 3) fast rendering (without VDOM/react). Used in https://seesu.me & https://meetsidekick.com (where I was 1st engineer). Source: over 1 year ago

• Making Twitter likes/bookmarks backup tool as side quest of browser that saves everything

  To make snapshot it takes current state of DOM, current state of styles (to capture CSS-in-JS stuff), take resources like font/images from network storage (Chrome Dev Tools protocol) and saves it as HTML on disk. I've been developing created frontend in-memory graph DB / state manager for 1) replication 2) incremental sync 3) fast rendering (without VDOM/react). Used in https://seesu.me &... Source: over 1 year ago

• Making Twitter likes backup tool as side quest of browser/second brain

  Https://arestov.github.io/linkkraft-notes/trails-tree-plus-offline-for-tool-for-thoughts/linkkraft-fresh-offline-spa.mp4 Across similar software ("too many tabs" solvers, snapshoters) combination of trails tree & snapshots that reinforces is unique in linkkraft. To make snapshot it takes current state of DOM, current state of styles (to capture CSSinJS stuff), take resources like font/images from network storage... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago