Hacker News API - Hacker News now has an API. Awesome. :)

@rrhoover awesome. @tkalimov and i are eager to check this out. pretty soon, would love to see the PH of tools built on top of HN!

@josephkerns I can't wait to see some PH + HN mashups. Our hackathon is happening in just a few weeks (RSVP here)!

@rrhoover excellent - signed up! may be able to talk to folks about hosting in NYC if I can get the details - joe (at) roundview (dot) co

@ilikevests that's commendable and shows that you really care about the community. Many others probably wouldn't go through the effort of offering support for "non-official" apps.

@rrhoover other answer "because product hunt is killing it right now and they have an API so we need to innovate a bit."

@mulligan haha, when Hacker News split out "Show HN" into their own section, people started making comparisons to Product Hunt and making claims that YC was competing with one of its portfolio companies (ie, Product Hunt). I certainly don't see it this way and I'm not spinning marketing speak. As I told @carmeldea when she interviewed me on the topic, HN and PH have significantly different types of communities and the products that emerge emphasize this. As we expand, we're start to diverge even more.

@ilikevests great initiative, you should enable issues in the Github repo tho, lots of feedbacks incoming.