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Show HN: Second Screen News

4 points| gnomodromo | 7 years ago

This is my site:

http://www.uptopnews.com/

With the auto-scroll feature the news just run over your screen.

I would love to hear your feedback! Could you imagine to use this site everyday? What do and don't you like about it?

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gnomodromo|7 years ago

Does anyone has experience with pre-rendering angularjs? When I post my site on twitter I get tags like {{title}} in the tweet. I've seen some services that pre-render (SaaS) but I'd prefer an independent solution.

gnomodromo|7 years ago

Another reason I post this here is to ask for advice how much CPUs and memory you would suggest for a site like that. It's hosted on EC2.

viraptor|7 years ago

If enough people start using it? I'd suggest doing the dynamic part on a tiny instance (i.e. only as big as you need for scraping and generating the updates / trends) and pushing updates to S3. Then the client can poll S3 objects. (With some marker for "latest")

You'd have to cross 1gb/h of transfer before it costs more than running more than t3.small.

gnomodromo|7 years ago

Hey and you can even make the browser window go over two screens, the window will be full of news cards.

gnomodromo|7 years ago

My favorite topic is the breaking news section with auto-scroll on the second screen.