The Unim.press

The Unim.press

Read Reddit like a print newspaper

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We call Reddit.com the "front page of the Internet," but it occurred to me that that's only true in a very abstract sense. So I thought I'd extend that metaphor to something concrete! Unim.press is a Reddit reader/browser that looks like the NYT front page.
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Linus
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I made Unim.press this past Friday afternoon after thinking it would be cool to read Hacker News on a print newspaper. Hacker News turned out to be a bad choice for a feed, because HN posts don't have any images and so the resulting paper isn't very interesting. Luckily, Reddit has a great public API so I pivoted to make a Reddit browser. Extra appropriate, given the site's nickname. If you're on Firefox with Advanced Tracking Protection enabled, you might need to turn it off for this site -- apparently ATP blocks Reddit's official public API, too. Be sure to check out other subreddits and /top posts of subs with the controls on the right of the header bar!
Sameer Kapur
@thesephist cool ship! what's the story behind the name?
Linus
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Maker
@thesameerk The name's supposed to be "unimpress" as in "I'm un-impressed with today's news" but I think in hindsight I could have picked a more intuitive / pronounceable name, haha.
John
@thesameerk @thesephist I love the name
Allison Walker
Useful. Would be good to have a search, to search for any community. I see a lot of "lorem ipsum" instead of words. Waiting for v2.
Siddhartha gupta
@allisonwalker4 You can do this actually! Just change the URL to whichever subreddit you want to see
Allison Walker
@siddhartha_90 Sorry, I don't see a search bar.... I like the concept, anyway.
Nastya Mikeyeva
@thesephist Thanks! The website is amazing!
Andre Christoga Pramaditya
AI Sphere Quiz
The product looks sick, cool project Linus.
Sameer Kapur
love the fonts & styling on this!! fun lil reader to use
Linus
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Maker
@thesameerk Thanks! Definitely tried to put some effort into making the design match the real newspaper. You can see some comparisons with my reference design on a blog I wrote about this project at https://thesephist.com/posts/uni... :D
Sandoche
Llamao
What a good job !! Well done
Bruno Raljić
Bee Informed
nice product... and nice story on how you built it, I've read it few days ago! keep up the good work
Linus
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Maker
@bruno_raljic Thanks for sharing it elsewhere, and for reading through the process!
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