I built Hacker News TV
https://www.crowdform.co.uk/hntv
Hey Everyone I finally got round to building an idea I had last year. For those of you like me, who love YC's Hacker News - I built HNTV. 24/7 Videos from the Hacker News Forum https://www.crowdform.co.uk/hntv
David, this is fantastic. I really like the "Live" mode. I tried making a comment on the chat but FYI the login process doesn't seem to work.
Great work anyway. It's super snappy and fast.
Thanks! 😊 It might be asking to open a popup and your browser blocked the popup? Did you try signing in using the navbar?
Let me know if it still doesn't work - I'll try work out why.
It looks like this was my Chrome cookie settings.
Thanks for the help on Twitter DM, David :-).
I loved it
My only question is a legal one...
Your using the name of a well known business entity in your Product Name...
Did you contact them about this...would seriously recommend preparing a back up name
as I am pretty certain you will shortly be receiving a cease & desist order.
I could be wrong...I am sometimes...However
I found this in https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
Commercial Use: Unless otherwise expressly authorized herein or in the Site, you agree not to display, distribute, license, perform, publish, reproduce, duplicate, copy, create derivative works from, modify, sell, resell, exploit, transfer or upload for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Site, use of the Site, or access to the Site.
( I believe the Name qualifies as any portion of the site )
Copyright © 2005–2018 Y Combinator, LLC. All rights reserved.
Y Combinator Management, LLC
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Attn: General Counsel / Copyright Agent
Fax: 650-360-3189
Other than that good luck on your journey .
I think it's very unlikely - there are many HN clients out there. There is also https://thehackernews.com/ which seems to have leveraged YC's HN? Maybe more likely to have problems with them? Also its non-commercial use anyway.
It seems like it shouldn't be possible given how generic and descriptive it is, but they very well could have trademarked the words "hacker news".
That bulb factory reset video tho...